DEADLINE | FUNDING OPPORTUNITY | DESCRIPTION |
Rolling | AthenaDAO Women's Health Research Funding | 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). |
December 3, 2024 | CIHR-IMHA Digital Health Catalyst Grant | To catalyze discovery in digital health research relevant to CIHR-IMHA’s broad mandate areas. For ECRs, MCRs & Indigenous Health Research proposals. $100K for up to 1 year; 4 grants available. |
December 10, 2024 | CIHR Team Grant: Healthy Youth (Registration) | 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. |
December 12, 2024 | Michael Smith Health Research BC Research Trainee 2025 (LOI) | Supports health researchers in the training phase of their careers to contribute to the success of BC’s health research landscape. Salary support for PDFs or health professional researchers. $60K/year for up to 3 years. Full application due February 13, 2025. |
December 12, 2024 | SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grants | To mobilize, examine & synthesize social sciences & humanities research on Envisioning Governance Systems that Work. Themes: The Changing Nature of Security & Conflict, The Arts Transformed, & Truth Under Fire in a Postfact World. $30K for 1 year. |
December 15, 2024 | SSHRC Partnership Engage Grants | Short-term & timely support for partnered research activities that will inform decision-making at a single partner organization from the public, private or not-for-profit sector. $7 to $25K for 1 year. |
December 20, 2024 | Michael Smith Health Research BC- Mitacs Accelerate & Elevate industry programs | Supports graduate students and postdoctoral fellows across BC to gain experience working within BC’s life sciences sector. $90-129K over up to 24 months. |
January 15, 2025 | Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA) | Opportunities for undergraduate students to consider graduate studies or a research career by providing research work experience. $6K plus host institution contribution. UBC information here. |
January 17, 2025 | Veterans Affairs Canada:Review of novel, emerging and alternative mental health interventions for women Veterans | To a conduct a literature review exploring which novel, emerging, or adjunct mental health interventions are most promising in their capacity to address women Veterans’ mental health needs. $70K for 1 year. |
January 23, 2025 | Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar and Health Professional-Investigator (HP-I) Program | The Scholar and HP-I Programs provide salary support to help ECRs & health professionals in BC build their research programs, train the next generation of scientists, & make significant contributions to their fields. ECRs dedicate 75% of their time to health research activities. Health professionals (including a Physician Stream) dedicate 50% of their time to health research activities. Both programs provide a maximum of $90K/year for up to 5 years. An LOI is due on November 19, 2024. |
Jan-Dec, 2024 (rolling) | Health Research BC Industry-based program | 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 1, 2025 | SSHRC Connection Grants | Support events & outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. Workshops, colloquiums, conferences, forums, summer institutes, documentaries or other events or outreach activities. $7K to 25K over 1 year. |
February 2, 2025 | SSHRC Insight Development Grants | To support research in its initial stages & enable the development of new research questions, experimentation with new methods, theoretical approaches or ideas. For emerging & established scholars. $7K to 75K for up to 2 years. |
February 4, 2025 | CIHR Team Grant: Healthy Youth | 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. |
February 5, 2025 | CIHR Project Grant Spring 2025 | A flagship CIHR funding program. Designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential for important advances in fundamental or applied health-related knowledge, health care, health systems or health outcomes. Full application due March 5, 2025. |
February 10, 2025 | SSHRC Partnership Grants - Stage 1 | These grants provide support for new & existing formal partnerships over 4-7 years to advance research, research training or knowledge mobilization in the social sciences & humanities. Stage 1: up to $20K - these funds help applicants prepare the Stage 2 application. Stage 2 (by invitation only): up to $2.5 million. |
February 13, 2025 | Michael Smith Health Research BC Research Trainee 2025 | Supports health researchers in the training phase of their careers to contribute to the success of BC’s health research landscape. Salary support for PDFs or health professional researchers. $60K/year for up to 3 years. An LOI is required by December 12, 2024. |
February 20, 2025 | Research on Research Joint Initiative | Research on research, also known as metaresearch, is the application of rigorous methods & analysis to the practice of research itself—its methods, standards and evaluation. Applications dealing with metaresearch in any disciplinary context are invited. Up to $200K for 3 years. |
March 5, 2025 | CIHR Project Grant Spring 2025 | A flagship CIHR funding program. Designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential for important advances in fundamental or applied health-related knowledge, health care, health systems or health outcomes. A registration is required by February 5, 2025. |
March 15, 2025 | SSHRC Partnership Engage Grants | Short-term & timely support for partnered research activities that will inform decision-making at a single partner organization from the public, private or not-for-profit sector. $7 to $25K for 1 year. |
April 1, 2025 | SSHRC Impact Awards | Designed to build on & sustain Canada’s research-based knowledge culture in all research areas of the social sciences & humanities. The awards recognize outstanding researchers & their activities funded partially or entirely by SSHRC. $50K or $100K. |
May 1, 2025 | SSHRC Connection Grants | Support events & outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. Workshops, colloquiums, conferences, forums, summer institutes, documentaries or other events or outreach activities. $7K to 25K over 1 year. |
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. |
August 1, 2025 | SSHRC Connection Grants | Support events & outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. Workshops, colloquiums, conferences, forums, summer institutes, documentaries or other events or outreach activities. $7K to 25K over 1 year. |
September 4, 2025 | Team Grant : HIV/AIDS and STBBI Community-Based Research | LOI now closed. |