Current Competitions
2023 International Joint Initiative for Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Competition
Description
The 2023 International Joint Initiative for Research in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation represents a collaboration among research funders from Brazil, Canada, Germany, Norway, South Africa, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States to leverage international expertise to tackle the global challenges caused by climate change. Climate change has been recognized as the single most important threat to the future well-being and prosperity of our planet and all who inhabit it.
Funds Available
The total amount of funding available to support each project will depend on the partners that will be supporting the project. Check link below for more information.
Key Dates
Apply by Sept, 2023.
Sex Differences in Radiation Research
Description
The Office of Research on Women’s Health has a new funding opportunity for early-stage research to better understand the underlying causes of radiation-associated sex differences. These inherent sex differences can potentially contribute to differences in radiation sensitivity, efficacy of mitigation, as well as biomarkers of radiation injury and recovery.
Funds Available
Application budgets are not expected to exceed $350,000.
Key Dates
Apply by September 6th, 2023.
CIHR: Café Scientifique Program
Description
The CIHR has announced the launch of a refreshed Café Scientifique Program. The program will provide funding to design and deliver events known as Cafés that enable knowledge sharing and open, respectful dialogues between the general public and health research experts on health-related issues of public interest.
Any researcher or Canadian resident affiliated with an organization or institution can lead or organize Cafes. They encourage knowledge users, Knowledge Keepers, patients, Person(s) With Lived/Living Experience (PWLLE), and trainees to apply. Cafés can be held in-person, in a hybrid format (mix of in-person and virtual), or virtually. Where possible, hybrid formats are encouraged to allow for both in-person interactions between health researchers and members of the public, while also facilitating wider outreach virtually. To facilitate accessibility and provide a conducive atmosphere for engagement and interaction, Cafés are to be held in appropriate and accessible public venues or online platforms.
Funds Available
The total amount available for this funding opportunity is up to $776,000, enough to fund approximately 97 grants. This amount may increase if additional funding partners participate. Please note that applicants can apply to only one (1) pool. The maximum amount per grant is $6,000 for one (1) year.
Applications that demonstrate meaningful engagement and co-creation with knowledge users, patients, Indigenous communities and PWLLE will be eligible for an additional supplement of $2,000 per grant, to account for additional costs of co-creation and engagement. These additional costs should be reflected in the proposed budget, in order to be considered for the supplement.
Key Dates
The application deadline is Winter 2023.
Past Competitions
National Women’s Health Research Initiative
Description
There is a new funding opportunity for biomedical discovery grants in collaboration between the Canadian Institute of Health Research, Institute of Gender and Health, and Women and Gender Equality Canada. It will be focused on studies that have the potential to make significant advancements in women’s health.
Funds Available
It is anticipated that $2,000,000, will be available for this funding opportunity enough to fund approximately 13 discovery grants at a maximum of $150,000 for up to one (1) year.
Key Dates
The deadline is July, 2023.
Rebuilding Lives Grant
Description
The Canadian Women’s Foundation is now accepting levels of intent for their Rebuilding Lives Grant through two areas. The first is “Rebuilding Lives” for programs and services that support women, Two Spirit, trans, and non-binary people, who have experienced gender-based violence. The second is “Collaborative Projects” for initiatives that support systematic change on a regional or national scale
Funds Available
The grant is up to a maximum of $45,000 per year for four years
Key Dates
The deadline is June 20th, 2023
Galvanizing Health Equity Through Novel and Diverse Educational Resources (GENDER) R25
Description
ORWH is pleased to announce a new program, Galvanizing Health Equity Through Novel and Diverse Educational Resources (GENDER) R25 (RFA-OD-22-015). The GENDER R25 will help meet the need for sex- and gender-specific training in science, medicine, and allied health professions by supporting the development of sex- and gender-focused courses, curricula, and methods for the extramural community. Courses and curricula can be targeted to audiences at any career stage. To learn more, register here to attend the technical assistance webinar on Wednesday, September 21, 2022, at 4:00 p.m. EDT. In addition, funded projects will result in curricula, courses, and methods that can be widely utilized across disciplines and made available through the ORWH Interprofessional Education Portal.
Funds Available
Application budgets are limited to $150,000 in direct costs per year and need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.
Key Dates
Gender and Health Scientific Workshop Abstract Submissions Due by August 15. The deadline for poster abstracts focused on gender and health has been extended to Monday, August 15. Posters that are accepted will be displayed at the upcoming virtual workshop, “Gender and Health: Impacts of Structural Sexism, Gender Norms, Relational Power Dynamics, and Gender Inequities.” Please save the date and join us on Wednesday, October 26, 2022, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. EDT. Visit the abrast submission portal for more details and learn about the workshop objectives.
Mobilizing Principles for Equitable Global Health Research
Description
This project will support the identification and implementation of effective knowledge mobilization strategies for integrating what are known collectively as ‘Principles for Global Health Research’ into action across the Canadian global health research (GHR) ecosystem.
The Principles for Global Health Research (the Principles) were developed by the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research (now, the Canadian Association for Global Health) through a consultative process. Developed for all those involved in GHR — including people designing, conducting, using, teaching, learning about, assessing, funding or collaborating on GHR — the Principles identify equity as a central pillar. The six Principles are: authentic partnering, inclusion, shared benefits, commitment to the future, responsiveness to the causes of inequities and humility.
Funds Available
One project with a maximum budget of CAD600,000
Key Dates
May 13, 2022—Proposal Application Deadline
Health Innovation Fund Investment (UBC only)
Description
On February 15, 2022, the call for proposals for the Health Innovation Funding Investment (HIFI) Awards opens to faculty members at UBC Vancouver and UBC Okanagan. UBC Health is offering up to $25,000 to faculty members who are collaborating across faculties, disciplines, and campuses to develop new teams, pursue new ideas, or translate findings from innovative health-related research. Health is produced by a complex interplay of individual, social, political, and economic factors. Interdisciplinary and cross-faculty collaborations have the potential to lead to more innovative solutions to improve health and address health inequities. The HIFI Awards are intended to catalyze these collaborations by supporting cross-faculty and cross-campus research at UBC’s Vancouver and Okanagan campuses.
Funds Available
$25,000
Key Dates
February 15, 2022—Call Opens
April 15, 2022—Application deadline
Part the Cloud Translational (PTC) Research for Alzheimer’s Disease Program
Phase I and Phase II clinical trials directed towards Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias internationally.
Description
Applications will be accepted from academic investigators and small companies with lead candidate therapeutic agents that require early stage testing (Phase 1 or Phase 2) prior to the larger Phase 2b or 3 efficacy studies, or with lead therapeutic agents that have already established human safety data and require a small-scale pilot Proof of Mechanism (POM) study in humans to begin proving the scientific concept in humans. This award will support Phase 1 studies or pilot small- scale Phase 2a studies for novel or repurposed potential compounds in cognitively unimpaired, mild cognitive impairment or later stages of disease, including single and multiple dose studies to establish safety, brain penetration and/or target engagement and POM in preparation for larger proof of concept trials. In addition, proposals may be considered that are POC to validate biological marker(s) of disease progression in a clinical trial environment. Any proposal must have a clear focus on Alzheimer’s disease and related disorder and be translational in nature. All proposals should clearly and explicitly outline the measure to be investigated, the methods for study, and outcomes. Researchers from underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply.
Full program details can be found here.
Funds Available
We anticipate funding up to six Part the Cloud Research Awards. Each grant is limited to $800,000 (direct and indirect costs) over two or three years. Indirect costs are capped at 10 percent (rent for laboratory/office space is expected to be covered by indirect costs paid to the institution). Please note: This is for Phase 1 and/or Phase 2 human studies and must be at least 90% of the budget for costs related to conducting the clinical trial. Related studies and preliminary study, while important, do not fall under this request for applications (RFA).
Key Dates
Please note: Letters of Intent are not required for this round of Part the Cloud funding opportunity. New submissions are welcome to send a paragraph to the Alzheimer’s Association for review and feedback at grantsapp@alz.org to confirm that their proposal will meet program requirements and be responsive to this RFA. Grants identified as non-responsive will not be reviewed. While THIS IS NOT REQUIRED, it is recommended.
Re-submissions can proceed to submit a full application.
Application Deadline: March 23, 2022, 5:00 PM ET
Award Notification: May 15, 2022
For more information, contact grantsapp@alz.org
Women RISE
Description
There is a real risk that without efforts to understand the immense and disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on women and identify policies that prioritize the needs and health of women, worldwide progress on gender equality will be rolled back. Supported by IDRC, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Women RISE is aligned with the United Nations Research Roadmap for the COVID-19 Recovery. Research evidence generated by this initiative will inform immediate and medium-term solutions for post-COVID-19 recovery that will improve gender equality and health equity.
A forthcoming call for proposals will be available to fund research teams conducting action-oriented, gender-transformative research projects to understand the relationships between women’s work and health before, during and after COVID-19. Specifically, this funding opportunity will support population and public health research in low- and middle-income countries that addresses UN Research Roadmap Priority 3.5: “How have recent economic changes disproportionately impacted women and how can recovery strategies be inclusive and gender-transformative?”
Funds Available
1M for a 2 year project.
Key Dates
March, 2022—Funding launch
April, 2022—Concept notes due
July, 2022—Proposal due
Integrative Research in Gynecologic Health
Description
The purpose of this National Institute of Health FOA is to provide a platform to support novel, complex research with integrated studies that involve basic, translational and clinical science to focus on a single clinically-important, understudied gynecologic disorder, or a research question that cuts across disorders, while facilitating economy of effort, space and equipment. The ultimate goal of the FOA is to improve human gynecologic health by fostering partnerships between experts in diverse fields of research and enabling enhanced knowledge and resource sharing across these lines of inquiry. The projects developed will allow a cost-effective and collaborative route to accelerated transfer of scientific knowledge from bench to bedside and back again. These projects will also encourage partnerships with investigators who have not yet applied their expertise to gynecologic research, thereby expanding the potential scientific insight and investigational toolkit available to these projects.
Funds Available
NICHD intends to commit $1,500,000 in FY 2023 to fund 1-3 awards.
ORWH intends to commit $50,000 in FY2023.
Key Dates
March 18, 2022—Letter of Intent deadline
April 15, 2022—Application deadline
Operating Grant: Emerging COVID-19 Research Gaps & Priorities
Description
As the pandemic has evolved, so have the research needs of decision makers. There are important research gaps in Canada’s response that have become evident; gaps that need to be addressed rapidly and in a sustained manner to respond effectively to the pandemic. In order to achieve its goals, the Government of Canada will launch several funding opportunities under the “Emerging COVID-19 Research Gaps and Priorities” banner to address the identified research gaps in Canada. As priority gap areas are identified, additional funding opportunities will be launched. The purpose of this and upcoming funding opportunities is to provide rapid funding for projects which respond to identified gaps in COVID-19 research areas. The initiative will seek to support a diverse portfolio of projects to ensure that complementary subthemes (including gender discrimination) are addressed.
Funds Available
$80,000 annually for the first two years and up to $290,000 in the third year, for an overall total maximum of $450,000.
Key Dates
August 10, 2021—Registration deadline
September 14, 2021—Application deadline
2021 Women's Health Resarch Institute Catalyst Grants
Description
These pilot grants are an open competition with respect to funding a project in women’s and newborn’s health. However, one of the seven grants will be dedicated to the support of a biomedical health research project involving investigations in female animals. Awards are open to BC researchers at a university or research hospital setting, but candidates must be a member of the WHRI. Eligible researchers include post-doctoral fellows, clinical fellows, research associates, clinician scientists and academic researchers.
Funds Available
A total of seven grants will be awarded at $25,000 each.
Key Dates
August 31—Submit Letter of Intent (LOI)
October 1—Full application due
Graduate and Fellowship Research Award in Women's Health
Description
This award is intended to provide salary support to Women's Health Research Institute (WHRI)-affiliated graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who are engaged in women’s and/or newborn health research and who do not currently hold major competitive salary awards. Become a WHRI member. Only applicants who do not hold major competitive salary awards at the time of award acceptance (i.e., November 2021) will be considered for this award.
Funds Available
One graduate-level award and one postdoctoral-level award valued at $13,500 each, for a one-year period.
Key Dates
September 20, 2021 at 11 pm PDT—Full application due
October 29, 2021—Anticipated notice of decision
November 1, 2021—Funding start date
The Role of Work in Health Disparities in the U.S.
Description
The purpose of this National Institute of Health opportunity is to support innovative population-based research that can contribute to identifying and characterizing pathways and mechanisms through which work or occupation influences health outcomes and health status among populations with health and/or health care disparities, and how work functions as a social determinant of health.
Funds Available
The number of awards is contingent upon NIH appropriations and the submission of a sufficient number of meritorious applications. Application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project.
Key Dates
October 5, 2021—Full application due
February 5, 2022—Full application due
June 5, 2022—Full application due
October 5, 2022—Full application due
Prevention of Perinatal Depression: Improving Intervention Delivery for At-Risk Individuals
Description
The research scope for this National Institute of Health opportunity includes: 1) strategies for identifying women at risk for perinatal depression; 2) developing and testing tools for selecting those most likely to benefit from preventive interventions; 3) testing service-ready efficacious preventive interventions that are of appropriate intensity/dose, and are scalable, such that they can be delivered with fidelity by setting providers; and, 4) testing strategies that can be used to train providers and to support delivery of evidence-based approaches with fidelity across diverse health care and community settings.
Funds Available
Two million will be split between 3-6 projects.
Key Dates
November 9, 2021—Full application due
Race, Gender and Diversity Initiative
Description
This funding supports community-based and community-led research partnerships with postsecondary institutions that are grounded in the lived experience of underrepresented or disadvantaged groups and that analyze the causes and persistence of systemic racism and discrimination.
Funds Available
The maximum amount per grant that can be requested for a clinical trial or a randomized control trial is $1,000,000 over one year.
The maximum amount per grant that can be requested for all other types of research is $500,000 over one year.
Key Dates
November 15, 2021 (8pm EST)—Application deadline
Expansion Grants: Considering Sex and Gender
Description
Supported by Brain Canada and Women’s Brain Health Initiative (WBHI), this program supports the implementation and/ or continuation of sex and/ or gender considerations in previously funded projects focusing on brain research in the fields of aging, neurodegeneration, or stroke. Six grants of $105,000 each over two years will be awarded. As an expansion grant, the proposed research project must incorporate sex and/ or gender in the aforementioned fields of research in one of two ways: (1) the addition of a sex and/ or gender component in projects that did not previously consider these factors or (2) the continuation of efforts targeting the inclusion of sex and/ or gender components in ongoing or previously completed research projects. The research topic may span the range of basic-translational-clinical approaches.
Funds Available
Six grants of $105,000 each over two years will be awarded.
Key Dates
July 5, 2021—Registration deadline
September 1, 2021—Full application due
CIHR: Heart Failure Research Network
Description
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to support a single nationally coordinated, interdisciplinary research Network (including patients, people with lived/living experience, family/caregivers, Indigenous Elders or Knowledge Keepers, government, policy makers, not-for-profit organizations, health care providers, researchers, clinicians and industry) focused on HF across the lifecycle, within various health delivery settings (including hospitals, primary care, home and community care as examples), and must consider HF in the context of multi-morbidity, Indigenous health and well-being and health disparities. Read more.
Funds Available
The total amount available for this funding opportunity is $5,000,000, enough to fund one (1) Network grant. The maximum amount per year is $1,000,000 for a maximum of five (5) years.
Key Dates
July 7, 2021—Registration deadline
December 7 , 2021—Full application due Read More
Catalyst Program
Description
Canada's federally funded Digital Health and Discovery Platform (DHDP) has launched their Catalyst Program. Catalyst will follow Mitac's Accelerate format and provide $15,000 in funding to support industry partnered projects and internships. Projects will focus on the advancement of next generation health data technologies including: data access; data ingestion; data federation and AI/Machine learning with applications in cancer and Neurology. Read more.
Funds Available
50-100K/year
Key Dates
Jun 18, 2021—Full application due
Discovery Horizons
Description
The objective of this NSERC pilot funding opportunity is to support investigator-initiated individual and team Discovery research projects that broadly integrate or transcend disciplines to advance knowledge in the natural sciences and engineering (NSE) and would significantly benefit from being assessed by an interdisciplinary peer review committee. Full applications submitted to this NSERC program will thus be reviewed by a tri-agency interdisciplinary peer review committee, which NSERC is piloting in partnership with CIHR and SSHRC. The duration of projects are up to 5 years. Read more.
Funds Available
50-100K/year
Key Dates
June 15, 2021—LOI due
Oct 18, 2021—Full application due
L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science International Awards
Description
This award program identifies and supports eminent women in science throughout the world. Each year, five Awards Laureates are recognized for their contributions to the advancement of science, in Life or Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science.
Funds Available
€100,000 is given to each of the five laureates
Deadline
May 31, 2021
AI for Humanitarian Action
Description
Microsoft created this funding program to address global humanitarian issues by providing funding for organizations, institutions and labs that develop AI solutions in four focus areas including the needs of women and children. They are interested in supporting projects that improve operational efficiency, enable new capabilities, increase beneficiary engagement, or involve rich data analysis for classification and prediction modeling.
Funds Available
Resources available to selected projects: Up to $300,000 fair market value in Azure and data science services consisting of a combination of:
- $10K - $75K Azure credit grant
- Azure enablement engineering support (if needed)
- Up to 300 hours of engagement by Microsoft Data Science and Analytics team members
Key Dates
Application deadline: May 31, 2021
The Heart-Brain Connection IMPACT Award
Description
Brain Canada and Heart & Stroke have come together to provide this multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional, integrative research competition that will investigate the complex interactions between the heart and the brain by leveraging the power of collaboration and innovation in Canada’s research community. This new funding opportunity will bring together researchers across biomedical, clinical, health services, and social, cultural, environmental and population health fields to generate new knowledge and meaningful action that will directly benefit people in Canada. Research teams will drive discovery and exploration, and to build long-term capacity in heart and brain vascular research. Brain Canada and Heart & Stroke (funders) are committed to making equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) an integral component of the Heart-Brain Connection IMPACT Award competition. EDI principles must be integrated and applied to team assembly, research design, methods, analysis and interpretation, and dissemination of research findings. Applicants of diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply for this funding opportunity.
Funds Available
Two grants of up to $2.9 million each. Teams invited to application phase will be given a planning grant of up to $10,000, with approved budget justification, to develop their Full Application.
Eligibility
Canadian research teams.
Key Dates (2021)
April 8—Register team
May 13—Submit Letter of Intent (LOI). Select applicants will be invited to proceed to the Full Application phase.
August 26—Full application due.
Please refer to the Competition Guidelines for additional details or contact research@heartandstroke.ca.
European Research Council Synergy Grants
Description
ERC Synergy Grants are intended to enable minimum two to maximum four Principal Investigators (PIs) (and their teams) 5 to jointly address ambitious research problems that could not be addressed by the individual Principal Investigators and their teams working alone. Synergy projects should enable substantial advances at the frontiers of knowledge, stemming, for example, from the crossfertilisation of scientific fields, from new productive lines of enquiry, or new methods and techniques, including unconventional approaches and investigations at the interface between established disciplines. The transformative research funded by Synergy Grants should have the potential of becoming a benchmark on a global scale. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their research proposal. Principal Investigators must also demonstrate that their group can successfully bring together the scientific elements necessary to address the scope and complexity of the proposed research question.
Funds Available
Synergy Grant can be up to a maximum of EUR 10,000,000 for a period of 6 years. For projects of shorter duration the maximum amount of the grant is reduced pro rata10. However, up to an additional EUR 4,000,000 can be requested to cover11: (a) ‘start-up’ costs for PIs moving to EU or an Associated Country from elsewhere as a consequence of receiving the ERC grant and/or (b) the purchase of major equipment and/or (c) access to large facilities and/or (d) other major experimental and field work costs, excluding personnel costs.
Key Dates
ERC grant applications can only be submitted in response to a Call for Proposals. The ERC has yearly calls for proposals covering all scientific fields. For an ERC grant application to be complete, it needs to include the administrative forms, the research proposal and the supplementary documents. The completed proposal should be submitted by the specified closing date. Calls are published on this page, the European Commission’s Funding and Tenders Portal and in the Official Journal of the European Union.