• The applicant must be a principal investigator who holds or will hold a full-time faculty appointment with the University of Toronto as of July 1, 2012.
• The applicant must be conducting diabetes-related research at the University of Toronto or an affiliated institution.
• The applicant must be a registered member* of the Banting & Best Diabetes Centre, although membership is not required for those who do not currently hold a U of T faculty appointment but expect to by July 1, 2012. (*Current U of T faculty who are new to the field of diabetes research and are not members of the BBDC can request free membership by contacting the Centre prior to submitting an application.  For more information about BBDC membership, please view the MEMBERSHIP section of this web site).  
• Faculty are eligible for this funding normally within five years of their first faculty appointment at any university at the time of funding commencement (i.e. applicant must have received his/her first faculty appointment on July 1, 2008 or later).  First faculty appointments include the rank of lecturer, instructor, associate/assistant/or full professor, and status-only appointments.  Those who have experienced a career interruption must provide an explanation on a page attached to the application form.  Applicants who have not yet taken up their appointment at the University of Toronto must do so by July 1, 2012.  Questions regarding eligibility should be directed to the Banting & Best Diabetes Centre before submitting an application. 
• Faculty who have held either the BBDC Dennis Scholar Award or the New Investigator Award for Diabetes Research only once before are eligible to apply providing the applicant meets the eligibility requirements noted above.

One award of $10,000 per annum for two years is available.

• Funds may be used for diabetes research support (examples: supplies, materials, services, salary support for research staff, equipment costing less than $5,000).
• Requests from clinician-scientists for full or partial use of funds for personal salary support will be considered, but must be accompanied by a detailed letter explaining how, as a result of this award, the applicant's clinical activities will be reduced to allow more time to be devoted to diabetes research. The letter must be signed by the Head of the Department or Division Director and must clearly commit that the support will be used to reduce clinical activities.
• Requests from basic science faculty for personal salary support will NOT be considered.
• Use of funds for multiple purposes is acceptable.
• Use of the funds must be fully justified.
• Requests to purchase equipment costing over $5,000 will NOT be considered.

Submit a completed application form to the Banting & Best Diabetes Centre by the deadline date.

Download the 2012/2014 Dennis Scholar Award Application form (PDF).

• Applicants are required to inform the BBDC of any related support currently held or requested from other funding sources and to what extent, if any, such support overlaps with the submitted BBDC application. 
• Where appropriate, the Banting & Best Diabetes Centre’s support must be acknowledged in all publications and presentations that arise from this funding.  Failure to acknowledge the BBDC’s support will result in future ineligibility for BBDC funding programs.

• A description of how the money was spent. 
• Whether or not any publications were generated as a result of this funding.
• If so, was the BBDC's support acknowledged in the publications?
• If applicable, a copy of all relevant manuscripts published and submitted must be attached to the report.