- Category Academic researchers, Goverment, Industry
Funding Opportunities
Operating Grants: Researcher
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR):
Project Scheme Operating Grants: The Project Grant program is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential to advance health-related fundamental or applied knowledge, health research, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes. It supports research projects proposed and conducted by individual researchers or groups of researchers in all areas of health.
Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC):
Discovery Grant Program: The Discovery Grants (DG) program assists in promoting and maintaining a diversified base of high-quality research capability in the natural sciences and engineering in Canadian universities fostering research excellence; providing a stimulating environment for research training
Banting Research Foundation:
Discovery Award Program: A year-long grant offering up to $30,000, designed to support groundbreaking health and biomedical projects. This award is exclusively for trailblazing new investigators from universities and research institutes across Canada who are within their first three years of academic appointment and have received a start-up package of less than $200,000
Canadian Cancer Society:
Canadian Cancer Society Emerging Scholar Research Grants: This program is aimed at establishing and advancing promising early career investigators from across Canada with a focused commitment to undertaking cancer research. Through this program, early career investigators will develop their cancer research programs in Canada and pursue important scientific advances of the highest quality and potential for impact in the four pillars of health research (biomedical; clinical; health services; and social, cultural, environmental and population health).
Industry Partnered Grants
Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC):
Collaborative Research and Development (CRD) Grants are intended to create mutually beneficial collaborations between Canadian universities and private and/or public sector partners that lead to advancements that will result in economic, social or environmental benefits for Canada and Canadians
Innovate: Alliance funding supports R&D collaborations between Canadian university researchers and partners from the private, public or not-for-profit sectors, as well as opportunities for Canadian researchers to work with national and international academic counterparts.
Innovate: Commercialization supports commercialization and recognize outstanding innovation in the natural sciences and engineering.
Idea to Innovation grants: The objective of Idea to Innovation (I2I) grants is to accelerate the pre-competitive development of promising technology originating from the university and college sector, and to promote its transfer to a new or established Canadian company.
CREATE: The Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) program supports the training and mentoring of teams of highly qualified students and postdoctoral fellows from Canada and abroad through the development of innovative training programs that: encourage collaborative and integrative approaches, and address significant scientific challenges associated with Canada’s research priorities; facilitate the transition of new researchers from trainees to productive employees in the Canadian workforce
Genome Canada
Genomic Applications Partnership Program: The GAPP funds downstream research and development (R&D) projects that address real world opportunities and challenges defined by “Receptor” organizations such as industry, government, or not-for-profit entities. These organizations should have the expertise, resources and commitment to commercialize or implement the project’s outcomes. Projects must be active collaborations between the Receptor organization (Canadian or international) and a Canadian academic researcher. Both must play an integral role in the project. These projects are co-funded by Receptors and other stakeholders and must have the potential to generate significant social and/or economic benefits for Canada.