What types of grants do we fund?
Educational Grants
Funding may be provided to registered medical associations, academic institutions, or patient organizations to support independent medical education. The primary audience for these grants should be healthcare professionals or patients. Ipsen may fund educational seminars, webinars and symposia; the development of educational materials; and other types of valuable educational programs.
Research Grants
Funding may be provided to any registered third-party research entity, academic institutions, patient organizations or other entities that would like to conduct non-drug-related, epidemiological research. Such funding may only be given in instances in which Ipsen does not have control, or input, into the research focus, design, or output. Furthermore, any results, reports, or other work products generated by the organization must be for general publication, and not as a deliverable to Ipsen. Such funding may not be provided for Ipsen research and development purposes. For information on Investigator Sponsored Studies (ISS), click here.
Therapeutic Areas of Focus
Additionally, Ipsen will consider requests for funding education relating to epidemiology, diagnosis, and/or treatment in the following therapeutic areas:
- Rare Disease
- Neuroscience
- Oncology
Grant approvals are not connected to or conditioned upon the purchasing, prescribing, providing favorable recommendations for, or otherwise supporting Ipsen products. The funding of a grant request does not impose an obligation, expressed or implied, on the recipient to purchase, prescribe, provide favorable formulary status for, or otherwise support Ipsen products.
To be considered for funding, the requestor must be a not-for-profit entity, and the request must meet all the criteria of an appropriate educational activity, including that it is independent, the information provided is balanced, accurate and not misleading, delivered to a broad audience and is reasonable in cost.
Grant requests will be reviewed by Ipsen’s Grants and Donations Review Committee on the basis of scientific, medical, and/or public health criteria.
Before consideration, a grant application must contain all of the following documents:
Letter of Request – including:
- An educational need for the program (for educational grants)
- Learning objectives (for educational grants)
- Project description
- Description of your organization and mission/purpose
- Date and location of the activity
- What is being requested
Agenda or Brochure – including a detailed description of the event or a synopsis of materials to be created
Detailed Budget Document – a detailed budget for the total event/project, including:
- Total amount of funds requested from Ipsen
- A breakdown of expenses and projected number of attendees
- Percentage of funding requested from Ipsen to the total funding for the activity. Preference will be given to those events funded by more than one donor.
- Percentage of Ipsen’s cumulative contribution vs. overall annual External Requestor’s budget
Other Documentation Required
- Document containing the legal status of the institution (e.g. copy of the business registration form, Excerpt from Commercial Registry, statute of the organization, Deed of Foundation, etc.)
- Any other relevant documents to support your grant request (agenda of the event, protocol for research grant, etc.)
For consideration, all grant applications must be submitted with the required documentation at least 90 days prior to the scheduled event via the Ipsen Grants portal.
For registration and system-related instructions, please refer to the Requestor User Guide (also accessible from the Help menu in the Grants portal once logged in).
For other grant or donation submission questions, please contact GrantsDonationsCanada@ipsen.com.