Applications Open for the 2026 PRIME Centre Research Award

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Award amount: $30,000
Application Deadline: May 1, 2026, 11:00 PM PDT
Anticipated Notice of Decision: June 15, 2026
Funding Start Date: June 17, 2026

The Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI), in partnership with the BC Women’s Health Foundation, is pleased to announce the 2026 Perinatal Research IMaging Evaluation (PRIME) Centre Research Award competition for the advancement of knowledge in women’s, fetal and neonatal health. One award will be given at $30,000.

This research award is an open competition with respect to funding a project in women’s, fetal or newborn health. Awards are open to BC researchers at a university or research hospital setting, but candidates must be current  members of the WHRI, and may not have previously received a PRIME Award (in the 2023 competition cycle) as a Principal Applicant.

Eligible researchers include clinician scientists and academic researchers who are engaged in women’s, fetal and/or newborn health research and whose proposed studies will be carried out within the PRIME Centre using facility resources.

Click here to see past winners.

How to Apply

Application Instructions

Applications are due on May 1, 2026, at 11:00 PM PDT. Email a copy of the application in PDF format to carola.munoz@cw.bc.ca.

Questions about the application process? Please contact Carola Muñoz, WHRI Research Projects Manager (carola.munoz@cw.bc.ca).

The Women’s Health Research Institute would like to acknowledge that we are uninvited guests on the unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lo, and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-waututh) Nations.

As a provincial research institute committed to improving the health outcomes of women, including those across the 2SLGBTQIA+ spectrum, we recognize our responsibility in the collective effort towards establishing culturally safe health care systems and services that address health inequities among Indigenous peoples, especially Indigenous women, girls, and Two-spirit peoples.

We encourage all people involved in research to read both the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action and the In Plain Sight Report, and reflect on ways we can incorporate the recommendations into our work. As we gather in spaces together, we encourage you to reflect on your positionality on these lands and your personal commitments to reconciliation.

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