OPEN – Deadline: Letter of Intent due September 6, 2024; Full Application due October 9, 2024.
The Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI), in partnership with the BC Women ‘s Hospital + Health Centre Foundation, is pleased to announce a Catalyst Grant competition for the advancement of knowledge in women’s health.
OPEN – Deadline: June 26, 2024
In 2020, the WHRI launched the Graduate and Fellowship Research Award in Women’s Health, a funding opportunity specific to our trainee community. This award is intended to provide salary support to 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.
OPEN – Deadline: June 26, 2024
Thanks to an annual endowment by Dr. Monica K. Li and family to the BC Women’s Health Foundation, the WHRI has established the Dr. Monica K. Li and Family Undergraduate Medical Student Research Award in Women’s Health, a funding opportunity specific to our undergraduate medical student trainee community. This award is intended to provide support to WHRI-affiliated undergraduate medical students who identify as a woman from racial/ethnic minority groups to pursue research in women’s and/or newborn health.
The WHRI has created a Trainee Travel Grant intended to support full-time research trainees for travel to national or international meetings. There are 10 grants available each year, valued at up to $1000 each. These grants will be offered twice a year (in May and November), with 5 grants offered at each timepoint.
The 2024 competition closed on February 13, 2024.
The WHRI Graduate Student Achievement Award seeks to recognize excellence amongst graduate students who are near completion or have completed their research project.
The 2023 competition CLOSED on March 1, 2023.
The Perinatal Research IMaging Evaluation (PRIME) Centre Awards supports studies in women’s
and/or newborn health research to be carried out, in whole or in part, within the PRIME Centre (i.e.,
making use of the equipment, facility features and personnel support available).
The 2023 competition CLOSED on September 1, 2023.
The Sue Harris Family Practice Research Grant supports research that contributes to women’s (cis and trans-inclusive) health within the discipline of family practice. The funding is intended to support new researchers (family practice residents and/or practitioners) to develop and carry out a pilot research project.
ROLLING – for Recipients of the Sue Harris Grant only.
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Funding Opportunity | Description | |
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Rolling | AthenaDAO is a decentralized collective that supports translational women’s health research & drug discovery. Funding ranges from $50-150K for 1-2 years (terms negotiated for each project). | |
July 15, 2024 | Awarded to mid-career researchers who in their last 6 active years have produced exceptional scientific research contributions with continued potential for impact on human health. $50K prize. | |
August 1, 2024 | To support bold projects and "out-of-the-box" ideas that, if successful, would lead to disruptions in current standards of care and replace the status quo in cancer prevention, detection and treatment. Up to $250,000 over 2 years. The LOI deadline is March 21, 2024. | |
August 1, 2024 | Grants to support events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. Events: $7-25K; Outreach activities: $7-50K, higher amounts can be considered if well justified. | |
August 7, 2024 | Single grants to provide support for planning and/or dissemination activities (either virtual or in-person) relevant to various Institute/Initiative mandates, including gender and health. The NPA can be a trainee, knowledge user or independent researcher. Most range from $10-$25K for 1 year. | |
August 14, 2024 | CIHR Catalyst Grant: Community Based Research in Climate Change Priority Areas (Registration) | Supports the partnered work of communities & researchers in knowledge development & capacity-building initiatives of relevance to the differential health impacts of climate change. Priority areas include the health impacts of climate change on older adults alternative diagnoses of Lyme disease, and improving equitable outcomes through climate justice. $125K for 1 year. The full application deadline is Sept 12, 2024. |
August 27, 2024 | New Frontiers in Research Fund 2024 Exploration Competition (NOI) | To support high-risk, high-reward and interdisciplinary research. Up to $125K/year for 2 years. Full application deadline: November 5, 2024. |
August, 2024 (TBA) | CIHR Project Grant Fall 2024 (Registration)
| This flagship CIHR program. typically launches in July, with a mid-August registration deadline. To be announced. |
September 4, 2024 | Operating Grant: ECRs in Human Development, Child and Youth Health (Registration) | For ECRs. To build research capacity, generate new knowledge, and support knowledge mobilization in human development, child and youth health. CIHR-IHDCYH's mandate includes reproduction, pregnancy & parent(s). $50K/year for up to 3 years. The full application deadline is September 24, 2024. |
September 10, 2024 | Operating Grant: Data Analysis Using Existing Canadian Databases and Cohorts (Registration) | To support projects that use data from existing Canadian-based cohorts, databases, cohort catalogues, and data platforms, and are relevant to human development, child and/or youth health with the goal to inform improved patient, population, and system outcomes. $75K for 1 year. Full application due October 3, 2024. |
September 10, 2024 | To support research projects that seek to advance cancer-related health equity, with a call for applications focused on breast cancer in specific underserved communities. Up to $450,000/annum for 3 years (or $150,000 for 1-year team building grants). The LOI deadline is March 26, 2024. | |
September 11, 2024 | CIHR Catalyst Grants - Moving Upstream: Structural Determinants of Health (Registration) | To support interdisciplinary research on the structural drivers (e.g., legislation and policies, governance structures, ecological & commercial determinants) can create, maintain, or exacerbate health (in)equity and population health across sub-groups, regions, contexts and settings. Research areas include: Sex, Gender & Health Inequities; Patient-Oriented Research; Racism. Ageism, & more. Up to $125K for 1 year. Full application deadline October 9, 2024. |
September 12, 2024 | CIHR Catalyst Grant: Community Based Research in Climate Change Priority Areas | Supports the partnered work of communities & researchers in knowledge development & capacity-building initiatives of relevance to the differential health impacts of climate change. Priority areas include the health impacts of climate change on older adults alternative diagnoses of Lyme disease, and improving equitable outcomes through climate justice. $125K for 1 year. Registration required by Aug 14, 2024. |
September 17, 2024 | Supports sexually transmitted & blood borne infections (STBBI) research across the cascade of care, from prevention to detection, to treatment & cure. Research areas are (i) Next-Generation Therapeutic Interventions & (ii) Next-Generation Prevention Technologies. Team grants: $400K/year for up to 5 years. Large team grants: $750K/year for up to 5 years. | |
September 17, 2024 | Tri-agency PDF awards. Applicants must complete their application in full collaboration with the proposed host institution. $70K/year for 2 years. | |
September 24, 2024 | Operating Grant: ECRs in Human Development, Child and Youth Health
| For ECRs. To build research capacity, generate new knowledge, and support knowledge mobilization in human development, child and youth health. CIHR-IHDCYH's mandate includes reproduction, pregnancy, & parent(s). $50K/year for up to 3 years. |
September 30, 2024 | To enable precision health pilot research projects & to facilitate inter-faculty & cross-institution collaboration. Primary applicants must be UBC faculty meeting ECR criteria (also see addition FoM criteria). Up to $50K per grant (up to 4 will be awarded). | |
September 2024 (TBA) | CIHR Project Grant Fall 2024 | This flagship CIHR program. program typically launches in July, with a mid-September full application deadline. To be announced. |
October 1, 2024 (TBA) | BC NEIHR Research Development Grant | BC Network Environment for Indigenous Health Research (NEIHR) grants to support Indigenous communities, collectives and organizations (ICCOs) health research development activities, including priority setting, partnership development, application development and submission. $15,000 for 1 year. To be announced. |
October 1, 2024 (TBA) | BC NEIHR Knowledge Sharing & Mobilization Grant | BC Network Environment for Indigenous Health Research (NEIHR) grants to support Indigenous communities, collectives and organizations (ICCOs) who have completed ICCO-led research and wish to share the findings of their research in culturally and contextually relevant ways. $15K for 1 year. To be announced. |
October 3, 2024 | Operating Grant: Data Analysis Using Existing Canadian Databases and Cohorts | To support projects that use data from existing Canadian-based cohorts, databases, cohort catalogues, and data platforms, and are relevant to human development, child and/or youth health with the goal to inform improved patient, population, and system outcomes. $75K for 1 year. Registration required by September 10, 2024. |
October 4, 2024 | Gynecologic Cancer Initiative Clinical Trials Accelerating Grants | Funding for interventional, observational, and translational clinical research studies focused on gynecologic cancers, and in particular those that advance lab-based discoveries by researchers in BC into the clinic. $50-100K per grant, 2 year term. An LOI is due by June 21, 2024. |
October 9, 2024 | CIHR Catalyst Grants - Moving Upstream: Structural Determinants of Health | To support interdisciplinary research on the structural drivers (e.g., legislation and policies, governance structures, ecological & commercial determinants) can create, maintain, or exacerbate health (in)equity and population health across sub-groups, regions, contexts and settings. Research areas include: Sex, Gender & Health Inequities; Patient-Oriented Research; Racism. Ageism, & more. Up to $125K for 1 year. Registration required by September 11, 2024. |
October 15, 2024 | To build capacity in the current and next generation of Implementation Science researchers in human development, child, and youth health, as per IHDCYH's mandate. $200K/year (100K/year for salary support & $100K/year research allowance) for up to 5 years, for a total of $1M per award. | |
October 22, 2024 | CIHR Embracing Diversity to Achieve
| To fund new research that will achieve more equitable outcomes in metabolic health, chronic high burden diseases, HIV and sexually transmitted and blood borne diseases, across the life course of diverse groups. The LOI stage closed on February 1, 2024. Research Team grants are $400K/annum for up to 5 years for Research Teams. A KM Hub supplement is $150K/year for up for 5 years. |
October 22, 2024 | CIHR Catalyst Grant: Biomedical Research for HIV/AIDS and STBBI | To catalyze and strengthen the innovation landscape of HIV/AIDS and STBBI biomedical research in Canada. Research areas include innovation for next-generation testing and surveillance technology, therapeutic interventions and prevention technologies. Up to $200K for 1 year. |
October 2024 (TBA) | To catalyze research that integrates One Health approaches to better prevent, prepare for, & respond to current and future outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) & avian influenza viruses with pandemic potential A(H5Nx).$150K for 1 year. | |
November 1, 2024 (TBA) | BC Network Environment for Indigenous Health Research (NEIHR) grants to assist in the training of Indigenous graduate students and PDFs at BC institutions. To be announced. | |
November 4, 2024 | To facilitate collaboration on timely research opportunities between UBC researchers in Vancouver and the Okanagan. Open to Faculty who hold Tri-Agency funding. $5K for 1 year. | |
November 5, 2024 | To support high-risk, high-reward and interdisciplinary research. Up to $125K/year for 2 years. An NOI is required by Aug 27, 2024. | |
December 10, 2024 | To support research teams in areas of (i) Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit or Métis) Youth Health; Two-Spirit (2S), (ii) Trans, Non-binary and/or other Gender Diverse Youth Health or (iii) Reducing Social Inequalities in Health among Canada’s Youth. Up to $300K/year for 5 years. Full application due February 4, 2025. | |
Jan-Dec, 2024 (rolling) | The Health Research BC-Mitacs industry-based program supports graduate students & postdocs to gain experience working within BC’s life sciences sector. Masters/PhD: Up to $90K for up to 24 months; Postdoc: Up to 129K for up to 24 months. | |
February 4, 2025 | To support research teams in areas of (i) Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit or Métis) Youth Health; Two-Spirit (2S), (ii) Trans, Non-binary and/or other Gender Diverse Youth Health or (iii) Reducing Social Inequalities in Health among Canada’s Youth. Up to $300K/year for 5 years. Registration required by December 10, 2024. | |
May, 2025 (TBA) | MSHRBC Convening & Collaborating Program | Promotes knowledge exchange and meaningful collaboration by supporting researchers, trainees & research users to develop a research agenda, identify key research practice priorities or evaluate a peer support initiative. $20K for 12 months. |
May, 2025 (TBA) | MSHRBC Reach Program | Promotes KT activities by supporting researchers & research users in disseminating research evidence through co-developing events, activities or tools to “extend the reach” of their work. $20K for 12-months. |
The CIHR-Institute of Gender & Health is hosting a webinar to provide interested applicants with information on the requirements of the National Women’s Health Research Initiative: Innovation
The CIHR-Institute of Musculoskeletal Health & Arthritis is hosting a webinar to provide interested applicants with information on the requirements of the Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) Network
The CIHR-Institute of Health Services and Policy Research is hosting an information session to provide interested applicants with information on the requirements of the Health System
