Funding, News and Announcements

The  Project Grant program is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential for important advances in fundamental or applied health-related knowledge, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes by supporting projects and programs of research proposed and conducted by individual researchers or groups of researchers in all areas of health. The best ideas may stem from new, incremental, innovative, and/or high-risk lines of inquiry or knowledge translation approaches.

For full details about the competition, please visit the competition’s webpage.

Reminder to check out this competition’s Priority Announcements. PAs offer additional sources of funding for highly rated applications that are relevant to specific research areas. More information on PAs is available here. 

Please note: there have been updates to the types of attachments permitted for Project Grant applications. These changes are noted in the application instructions (Task 7).

Reminder that CIHR has a Resources Page for Project Grants that includes learning resources for applicants, peer reviewers, and learning more about incorporating sex and gender considerations into proposal.

ORS Contact: susan.haydt@dal.ca
CIHR Contact: support-soutien@cihr-irsc.gc.ca

Deadlines

Full Application Internal Deadline: February 21, 2024 at 4:30pm AST. Please Note: this deadline also appears in the ResearchNet portal. Please ensure you submit in ResearchNet portal for this deadline. 

Registration Agency Deadline: February 7, 2024 at 9pm AST

Full Application Agency Deadline: March 6, 2024 at 9pm AST