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List of required information for application:

1. Assay validation plan: Provide a detailed plan for validating the molecular/cellular/imaging markers and assays for cancer detection, diagnosis, prognosis, monitoring, and prediction of response or resistance to treatment, as well as markers for cancer prevention and control.

2. Importance and justification: Clearly explain the importance and justification for developing the assays into clinical assays for cancer treatment, control, or prevention trials.

3. Assays for human samples: Specify that the assays are designed to work on human samples.

4. Multi-marker assays: If applicable, describe the assays for measuring multiple markers, including immune markers, that can be developed and validated simultaneously.

5. UH2 phase: Outline the plan for achieving analytical validation of the assays within 2 years.

6. UH3 phase: Describe the plan for conducting clinical validation of the analytically validated assays for up to 3 years using well-annotated biospecimens from retrospective or prospective clinical trials or studies.

7. Validation of existing assays: Explain if the proposed project aims to validate existing assays for use in other cancer clinical trials, observational studies, or population studies.

8. Harmonization of clinical laboratory tests: If applicable, describe the efforts to harmonize clinical laboratory tests, including investigating the performance and reproducibility of assays across multiple clinical laboratories.

9. Collaboration: Highlight the multi-disciplinary collaboration among scientific investigators, oncologists, statisticians, and clinical laboratory scientists that will be required for the project.

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Amount of Funding

Up to 50% funding to a maximum $50,000 grant per project;
Applicants may receive up to 50% of eligible costs for up to $10,000 to $50,000 in grant funding per project;
The applicant is responsible for the remaining 50% of costs;
The annual CanExport contribution maximum is $99,999 (in the event of multiple projects approved in the same government fiscal year);
A group of related companies cannot receive >$200,000 in funding in a single fiscal year. Projects budgets should be between $20,000-100,000; and
Applicants can apply for funding multiple times as long as their prior CanExport application has been completed all reporting is finished.

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Eligible Applicants

To be eligible for the CanExport program, Canadian businesses must:

Maintain 1 to <500 full-time employees;
Earn annual revenues ranging from $100,000 to $100,000,000;
Be federally incorporated federally or classified as a limited liability partnership (LLP);
Create eligible project expenses of $20,000 or more; and
Be financially stable and able to pay all project expenses not covered by the program.

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