Funding Guidelines

One of the reasons we participate in the annual BRIGHT Run is because we know where our fundraising dollars are going.

Better still, we know where they are staying: right here in our community at Juravinski Cancer Centre (JCC) and McMaster University to support breast cancer research that will improve prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and care of breast cancer patients.

BRIGHT dollars fund new and smaller projects to help establish a “proof of concept”: that this research is viable and worth digging into more deeply to support changes to standards of care. Also, funded projects lay the groundwork for further studies that will go on to be funded by other outside sources.

BRIGHT Run funding is meant to engage young researchers, provide more money for projects, and encourage researchers who are doing terrific work to advance breast cancer identification protocols and life after breast cancer.

Research questions that are proposed through the annual Call for Grants are put through a rigorous review and rating process by the Grants & Distribution committee at Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation.

Our goal? To get the funds out to the qualifying projects as soon as possible to kickstart these new and innovative research projects.