Grant: Sleep and Circadian Rhythms - Team - LOI

Chronic sleep loss and sleep disorders affect 50-70 million North Americans, with the resulting direct and indirect costs exceeding $100 billion per year. Major advances in understanding the biology of sleep and circadian rhythm disorders and their consequences to health is best achieved by collaborative trans-disciplinary programs to increase the capacity for research, education and knowledge transfer. Currently, however, the training of basic science and clinical researchers, health care and education professionals in sleep and biological rhythms related to health and disease is inadequate, largely because of the lack of educational curricula, formal training programs and collaborative research. This application will establish trans-disciplinary team research and a superior training program to bring new science, technologies, researchers and trainees into the field, and so establish the fields of sleep and circadian rhythms in the mainstream of other scientific and clinical disciplines to promote health.