Typically, I submit a grant application to CIHR. I've been involved in two or three grants recently. One was a grant looking at the health costs associated with eating disorders. It was a moderately complex study where data from a variety of sources was going to be obtained, and we were going to look at the lifetime health costs, or the 10-year health costs associated with these conditions, which is something that had never been done before. That grant application was sent to a committee of dieticians at CIHR, who said they could not review it because it was outside their area of expertise, so it was rejected. That's the type of thing that typically happens to grant applications that we write to go to CIHR.
We're very successful at NIMH, the National Institute of Mental Health, and in other countries' granting agencies. We're very successful with private foundations, but there seems to be a lack of interest at the INMHA level, the Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction. There seems to be a lack of interest and a lack of ability to appropriately review grant applications that go in.
Plus, frankly, the amount of money that they have to spend is trivial compared to what we need. We're submitting two grant proposals in February to a private foundation. We've been invited to resubmit because they currently fund our research. The total amount of those two grants would be $800,000 over two years. We could not hope to get that sort of money out of CIHR, regardless of our reputation or experience in the area of mental health. An amount of $800,000 would be most of their new grants for the whole year.