Funding Opportunities

Applicants entering year one of a master’s program and year one or two of a PhD program are invited to submit a research proposal focusing on interdisciplinary, impact-driven approaches in the study of aging to the MIRA Graduate Scholarship Program. See call for proposals for full details; all applicants must submit a Notice of Intent form, that includes a project title, lay summary, and the names of their proposed supervisor and mentor.

Applicants should review the call for proposals and application form before submitting their NOI to ensure their proposed project is eligible and aligned with the goals of this funding call.

MIRA partners with McMaster’s research centres and institutes to further expand our collective impact and build capacity among McMaster trainees. Applications that focus on aging and the mandate of any of the co-funding partners below may be considered for co-funded scholarships. Applicants are encouraged to review the mandates and areas of focus for each of the co-funding partners below and indicate their interest in having their application considered for specific co-funded awards via their online application.

AGE-WELL and MEDTEQ+, Canada’s leading research and innovation network in AgeTech, have joined forces as co-leads in envisAGE. This large-scale pan-Canadian five-year initiative brings stakeholders together to provide resources and support to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to integrate technologies that address the challenges of aging and build Canadian leadership in the AgeTech market. The envisAGE initiative is funded through the Government of Canada’s Strategic Innovation Fund.

The envisAGE program funds agetech solutions and require three co-applicant parties, who will evaluate SME AgeTech solutions in real world settings:

• a Canadian SME,
• an academic researcher or “Beachhead” member,
• and a community lab, or testing site

MIRA has joined envisAGE as a Beachhead partner, making MIRA researchers eligible participants. Interested researchers should  reach out to Audrey Patocs (patocsae@mcmaster.ca) and visit www.envis-age.ca for more information.

AGE-WELL and MEDTEQ+, Canada’s leading research and innovation network in AgeTech, have joined forces as co-leads in envisAGE. This large-scale pan-Canadian five-year initiative brings stakeholders together to provide resources and support to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to integrate technologies that address the challenges of aging and build Canadian leadership in the AgeTech market. The envisAGE initiative is funded through the Government of Canada’s Strategic Innovation Fund

The envisAGE program funds agetech solutions and require three co-applicant parties, who will evaluate SME AgeTech solutions in real world settings:

• a Canadian SME,
• an academic researcher or “Beachhead” member,
• and a community lab, or testing site

MIRA has joined envisAGE as a Beachhead partner, making MIRA researchers eligible participants. Interested researchers should  reach out to Audrey Patocs (patocsae@mcmaster.ca) and visit www.envis-age.ca for more information.

Deadline: ​Rolling
Funding available: Matching funds up to $100,000

In order to improve the positioning of McMaster’s researchers in external funding competitions, MIRA and the Labarge Centre for Mobility in Aging have allocated funding that may be used to match or leverage external funds. This process is intended to be used for requests related to externally funded, peer-reviewed grant competitions that require a matching component.

Funding available: MIRA can support access fees ($3,000) for up to 10 CLSA data applications

Deadline: See CLSA website for next data application deadline

MIRA members are eligible for support in accessing CLSA data, a national database tracking 50,000 Canadians aged 45 to 85 over a period of 20 years. Data access applications are accepted three times per year. Researchers should notify ​MIRA at ​​mirafund@mcmaster.ca prior to applying for CLSA data access to be considered for funding. MIRA funds will be allocated only to projects that do not have any other funding for this purpose.

MIRA Postdoctoral Fellowships support interdisciplinary, impact-driven approaches to the study of optimal aging. The research projects supported by these fellowships should aim to develop the capacity of future leaders in aging research and generate evidence that contributes to the well-being of older adults.

The applicant and principal supervisor are expected to involve at least two other researchers from two different McMaster Faculties (outside of the principal supervisor’s Faculty) as mentors in the development of an interdisciplinary research plan. The proposal should clearly indicate how the supervisor and two mentors will contribute to the development and execution of the interdisciplinary project, and how this interdisciplinary approach will bring value to the study. MIRA is partnering with several of McMaster’s research centres and institutes – including the LCMA and MDTRC — to further expand our collective impact and build capacity. Proposals that focus on aging and the mandate of any of the co-funding partners as outlined on pages two and three of this call for proposals, may be considered for a co-funded postdoctoral fellowship.

The Notice of Intent (NOI) to apply for a MIRA Postdoctoral Fellowship must be submitted using this link by the deadline. Applicants should develop their full application well in advance of NOI deadline and should not wait until they are notified of invitation to apply to begin writing the application. All eligible applicants will be invited to submit a full application by the application deadline.

Full proposal submissions must be emailed to mirafund@mcmaster.ca and include “MIRA Postdoctoral Fellowship Program” in the subject line.

Graduate Student Professional Development Awards are for students working with MIRA researchers to present their work at an academic conference (virtual or in-person), attend a training program (virtual or in-person), complete an online course at a different institution or participate in research activities in another location. Professional development awards are tenable for up to one year after the application deadline. MIRA will also accept ​submissions for professional development activities that occurred up to three months prior to the application deadline. Students are asked to advise MIRA by email (mirafund@mcmaster.ca) of cancellations or changes related to MIRA-supported professional development activities.  

MIRA has partnered with the EPIC-AT Health Research Training Platform, a national training platform that will prepare graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and early career researchers to be future leaders in digital health solutions for older adults with complex health needs. McMaster trainees at the Master’s, PhD and Postdoctoral level are eligible to apply for MIRA/EPIC-AT co-funded awards. Applicants should review the EPIC-AT application package and apply via the AGE-WELL Application Portal. For application questions please contact training@agewell-nce.ca.

The McMaster Institute for Research on Aging (MIRA) will fund up to six summer student Fellowships (one per Faculty) valued at $2,000 each for undergraduate students working with MIRA researchers between May and August 2024. 

MIRA Postdoctoral Fellowships support interdisciplinary, impact-driven approaches to the study of optimal aging. The research projects supported by these fellowships should aim to develop the capacity of future leaders in aging research and generate evidence that contributes to the well-being of older adults.

The applicant and principal supervisor are expected to involve at least two other researchers from two different McMaster Faculties (outside of the principal supervisor’s Faculty) as mentors in the development of an interdisciplinary research plan. The proposal should clearly indicate how the supervisor and two mentors will contribute to the development and execution of the interdisciplinary project, and how this interdisciplinary approach will bring value to the study. MIRA is partnering with several of McMaster’s research centres and institutes – including the LCMA and MDTRC — to further expand our collective impact and build capacity. Proposals that focus on aging and the mandate of any of the co-funding partners as outlined on pages two and three of this call for proposals, may be considered for a co-funded postdoctoral fellowship.

The Notice of Intent (NOI) to apply for a MIRA Postdoctoral Fellowship must be submitted using this link by the deadline. Applicants should develop their full application well in advance of NOI deadline and should not wait until they are notified of invitation to apply to begin writing the application. All eligible applicants will be invited to submit a full application by the application deadline.

Full proposal submissions must be emailed to mirafund@mcmaster.ca and include “MIRA Postdoctoral Fellowship Program” in the subject line.

Deadline: February 24, 2023 at 5:00 PM (EST)
Funding available: maximum value of $50,000

To enhance the position of McMaster applicants, MIRA’s Labarge Centre for Mobility in Aging (LCMA) will co-fund up to two applications led by McMaster researchers. LCMA funds may support interdisciplinary projects focusing on mobility in aging; LCMA-HAC co-funded awards will have a maximum value of $50,000.

Deadline: December 15, 2022
Funding available: One grant of $50,000 (for one year salary), plus $3,000 for research expenses

The MIRA Interdisciplinary Fellowship Grant invites teams of researchers to propose a project that will attract a highly qualified postdoctoral fellow who will conduct collaborative and interdisciplinary research focused on aging. The fellowships are valued at $50,000 salary for one year, plus $3,000 for research expenses. The supervisory team must contribute at least $10,000 in cash for the fellow’s benefits, and are encouraged to demonstrate leveraging of additional funds, assets and in-kind support for the proposed project. Interdisciplinary research teams are invited to submit proposals for research that will promote new research collaborations in aging.

The primary applicant will act as the recruited fellow’s primary supervisor. The interdisciplinary proposal must include at least two co-applicants from McMaster Faculties outside of the primary applicant’s Faculty, who will act as mentors to the fellow and research collaborators. Applicant teams may also include knowledge users or mentors from industry, the public sector, non-profit or community, health care, or others whose perspective will enrich the prospective fellow’s research experience and the project’s impact. Successful applicants will be awarded funds to hire one postdoctoral fellow to support the proposed project. Teams will have one year after award notification to recruit an appropriate fellow. MIRA can assist with recruiting a Fellow by sharing the posting across its communications platforms and with partners.

The MIRA | Dixon Hall Centre is a partnership between MIRA and Dixon Hall, a multi-service agency focused on addressing poverty, social injustices, and isolation across the lifespan in downtown Toronto East. Knowledge Synthesis Grants will support the synthesis and mobilization of existing knowledge and the identification of knowledge gaps and opportunities related to the following themes identified as priority areas in consultation with staff, leadership, and other stakeholders from Dixon Hall:

• Loneliness, social isolation & emotional well-being
• Housing & aging in place
• Precarity, financial well-being & food security
• Physical & cognitive decline
• Ageism, vulnerability, & loss of agency

Successful proposals will include a comprehensive knowledge mobilization plan for disseminating findings, such as a knowledge mobilization forum, in-person workshops, videos, education materials, infographics or other knowledge mobilization approaches.

Labarge Catalyst Grants in Mobility in Aging offer the opportunity to conduct collaborative and interdisciplinary research focused on mobility in aging. Mobility is broadly defined to include physical, social and community aspects; proposals may consider intrinsic and extrinsic barriers to mobility, execution of daily activities and participation in society. These grants are intended to stimulate new collaborations and allow researchers to conduct feasibility/pilot studies, scaling of interventions and/or collect preliminary data to support future proposals for full-scale studies.

*NEW in 2024* Teams must be led by an early to mid-career researcher, defined as a faculty member whose first academic appointment was no more than eight years prior to application deadline (minus any eligible career pause – please reach out to mirafund@mcmaster.ca with any questions regarding eligibility or accepted career pauses). Researchers identified as the Principal Investigator (PI) on a currently open Labarge Catalyst Grant cannot be the PI on a 2024 proposal; however, they may participate as a co-investigator.

This grant is intended to stimulate new collaborations and allow McMaster researchers to collect preliminary data to support future proposals for full-scale studies investigating the aging-related molecular and cellular mechanisms that are candidate risk factors and drivers of common chronic conditions and diseases associated with age.

Projects may investigate how the aging process represents a major risk factor for the development of numerous chronic diseases and conditions, including neurodegenerative diseases, diabetes, many cancers, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, reproductive aging, and frailty, and/or the biological pillars —inflammation, adaptation to stress, epigenetics, metabolism, macromolecular damage, proteostasis, and stem cells and regeneration — that may represent the potential drivers of the aging process.

This grant will support a geroscience approach: the incorporation of basic aging biology, chronic disease and clinical research, and projects must incorporate researchers from at least three different McMaster Faculties.

LOI deadline: November 6, 2024
Application deadline: December 11, 2024
Funding available: The total amount available for this funding opportunity is up to $16,125,000 CAD and up to $3,000,000 AUD as detailed below to fund up to fifteen (15) grants. This amount may increase if additional funding partners participate.

The Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA) is the national consortium for research involving neurodegenerative diseases that affect cognition in aging, including Alzheimer’s disease. CCNA was established in 2014 (Phase I) and developed the infrastructure and support to facilitate collaboration amongst dementia researchers and clinicians across Canada.

This funding opportunity (FO) is open to the diverse neurodegenerative diseases research community to carry out research projects that align with the NDS and the three CCNA research themes (primary prevention, secondary prevention and treatment, quality of life).

LOI deadline: October 7, 2024
Application deadline: November 7, 2024
Funding available: For the R61 exploratory phase, the combined budget for direct costs for the two-year project period may not exceed $500,000, with no more than $250,000 requested in any single year. For the three-year R33 implementation phase, applicants’ combined budget for direct costs may not exceed $1,500,000, with no more than $500,000 requested in any single year.

This notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) invites R61/R33 applications proposing research that incorporates exposures to a stressor(s) during the post-development period (“adulthood”) into studies of aging processes. Research proposed in the initial, exploratory (R61) phase will seek to determine whether exposure to a stressor(s) (e.g., physical, social, and/or environmental stressors of well-defined duration, intensity, and timing) during adulthood results in measurable changes in one or more of the hallmarks of aging. The second, developmental (R33) phase will then expand upon findings yielded in the R61 phase to determine the impacts of the stressor(s) on lifespan, healthspan, resilience, and/or interactions with other “input variables” such as genotype, diet, interventions, etc. Applicants can propose to employ in vitro systems; laboratory animals; or well-characterized wild, captive, free-ranging, or domesticated animal populations. Funded projects will receive up to two years of R61 support and may also receive up to three years of R33 support (contingent upon NIA’s determination of the success in achieving R61 milestones, NIA priorities, and availability of funds).

LOI deadline: October 7, 2024
Application deadline: November 7, 2024
Funding available: For the R61 exploratory phase, the combined budget for direct costs for the two-year project period may not exceed $500,000, with no more than $250,000 requested in any single year. For the three-year R33 implementation phase, applicants’ combined budget for direct costs may not exceed $1,500,000, with no more than $500,000 requested in any single year.

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) invites R01 applications that propose human studies to better understand the mechanisms underlying compensatory gait, posture, and molecular changes that contribute to slower walking speed and increased metabolic cost of walking. This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) encourages interdisciplinary collaborations to design integrative approaches that explore interactions among multiple systems (e.g., skeletal, muscle, tendon, somatosensory, and central nervous). This NOFO also encourages innovative approaches such as computational modeling, imaging and sensor technologies, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to disentangle compensatory gait alterations with aging that contribute to increased metabolic cost of walking and fatigue. Areas of interest include: 1) mechanisms and effects of central nervous system changes; 2) neuromuscular changes; 3) skeletal muscle bioenergetics; 4) computational modeling and simulation; and 5) changes in tissue structure and function (e.g., muscle-tendon complex, extracellular matrix)).

LOI deadline: October 7, 2024
Application deadline: November 7, 2024
Funding available: $4M in fiscal year 2025 to fund eight awards.

The goal of this grant is to help stimulate the emerging field of organelle communication and will help provide foundational information, and potential tool/method improvements, to further study the role of nuclear-mitochondrial communication in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and AD-related dementias (AD/ADRD). Applicants should briefly describe how their proposed studies will significantly improve our understanding of mitochondrial-nuclear communication and how changes in this communication can impact cellular biology in AD/ADRD. This grant will provide five years of funding to allow researchers to collect data on nuclear-mitochondrial communication, particularly using emerging tools/technologies.

Application deadline: November 7, 2024
Funding available: For the R61 phase, NIA intends to commit $3.25 million in FY 2025 to fund 8 awards.

Although stressors experienced throughout the entire life course can impact aging, as a first step toward integrating research on the role of stress into studies on the biology of aging, this grant invites applications that focus on stress exposures specifically during the post-development period, referred to here as “adulthood.” Limiting studies to this period of life may offer opportunities to: (1) eliminate confounding effects arising from the impacts of stressors on early developmental biological processes, (2) examine the malleability of the aging process during young and middle adulthood, a topic increasingly of interest in human experimental and observational studies of stress and aging, and (3) provide a window into the processes that impact biological aging prior to the onset of diseases that characterize older ages.

Application deadline: November 7, 2024
Funding available: $4M in 2025 to fund eight awards

This funding is to help stimulate the emerging field of organelle communication and will help provide foundational information, and potential tool/method improvements, to further study the role of nuclear-mitochondrial communication in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and AD-related dementias (AD/ADRD). Applicants should briefly describe how their proposed studies will significantly improve our understanding of mitochondrial-nuclear communication and how changes in this communication can impact cellular biology in AD/ADRD. This funding will provide five years of funding to allow researchers to collect data on nuclear-mitochondrial communication, particularly using emerging tools/technologies.

Application deadline: November 7, 2024
Funding available: $100,000 with funding available for up to five grants

The goal of the Data Analysis Grants is to use existing cohorts, data platforms and/or administrative datasets to advance healthy cities intervention research and implementation science specifically by addressing one or more of the following objectives:

• Evaluating the impact on health and health equity of interventions to the physical, social or policy environment (including health system–mediated interventions);
• Contributing analyses to directly inform the planning of physical, social or policy interventions with the purpose of improving urban population health or health equity;
• Addressing critical contextual questions related to the implementation of one or more interventions and scaling up (knowledge sharing) of evidence-based interventions (including health system-mediated interventions);
• Filling knowledge gaps that are critical for laying the foundation for future population health intervention research in urban areas. For example, increasing our understanding around how interventions may impact populations differentially according to gender, age, race, culture, ethnicity, income, or dis/ability;
• Developing and/or validating indicators and other data or evaluation tools that enable robust, comparable, replicable and equitable healthy cities intervention research and implementation science (including health system-mediated interventions).

LOI deadline: November 13, 2024
Application deadline: March 19, 2025
Funding available: Your budget must not exceed $250,000 in any given year nor exceed $450,000 total across all years, including indirect costs. The minimum award duration is 2 years.

The objective of the 2025 Zenith Fellows Awards competition is to provide funding support for investigators who have:

• Contributed significantly to dementia science including Alzheimer’s and all other dementia research
• Contributed significantly to neuroscience breakthroughs that have informed our broader understanding of Alzheimer’s and other dementias
• Are likely to make substantial contributions in the future.

Applicant must be an Associate Professor or above at the time of application.

Application deadline: November 15, 2024
Funding available: $30,000

Seed grants will provide principal investigators with an opportunity to apply for funds to pursue leading-edge research in pain, following the model of using persistent post-surgical pain to understand chronic pain. The objective is that it will lead to and support grant applications for other major external funding competitions.

Application deadline: November 20, 2024
Funding available: See call

Under the joint supervision of a home and host professor at a university in Canada and an institution affiliated with one of Mitacs’ international partners, senior undergraduate and graduate students as well as postdoctoral fellows included in successful applications will receive a $6,000 research award to conduct a 12- to 24-week research project in the other country. Eligibility criteria may vary between participating international partners.  All internship units are subject to funding availability by Mitacs and the international partner.  

The 2024 call for applications will remain open from September 12th, 2024 to November 20th, 2024. Please contact your local Mitacs advisor for details on how to apply.
   
The themes include but are not limited to the list below. Please note that there is a great deal of scope under the open theme humanities and social innovation, all kind of projects can be submitted under that specific theme: 

1) Digital and Emerging technology (e.g. AI, Advanced Computing, Cybersecurity, Semiconductors)

2) Sustainability and Net Zero (e.g. Electric Vehicles, Critical Minerals, Hydrogen, Energy Transition, Oceans, Clean Technology)

3) Life Sciences (e.g. Biomanufacturing, Bioeconomy, Agri-Food, Agri-Tech, Health Sciences)

4) Humanities and Social Innovation (open category)

Application deadline: November 19, 2024
Funding available: $1,970,000, to fund approximately 75 grants.

CIHR Planning and Dissemination Grants are intended to provide support for research planning and/or dissemination activities (either virtual or in-person). Award value and required focus varies by Institute. The CIHR Institute of Aging (IA) will support up to two research planning and dissemination grants through the CIHR-IA general pool (maximum value $25,000), and up to one grant relevant to the strategic priority area of Social Isolation and Older Persons (maximum value $50,000).

Application deadline: November 21, 2024
Funding available: The total amount available for this priority announcement is $315,000. The maximum amount awarded for a single award is $35,000 per annum for up to 3 years. The Institute of Aging will provide funding for up to 3 awards.

For the Fall 2024 CIHR Doctoral Priority Announcements, the CIHR Institute of Aging (CIHR-IA) will focus on the topic of Ageism. CIHR IA will fund up to three doctoral applications related to Ageism, one in each of the following three areas:

Climate Change and Older Adults
Elder Abuse and Older Adults
Social Isolation and Older Adults

Application deadline: November 21, 2024
Funding available: $35,000 per year for up to three (3) years; The Government of Canada has deployed additional funds to increase direct support for Black scholars. CGS D applicants who self-identify as Black and provide consent in their application to be considered for funds designated to specific groups may be able to receive this funding through a doctoral scholarship as part of this initiative. CIHR has 10 additional CGS D awards reserved for this initiative.

The Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral (CGS D) program supports and promotes research excellence in a wide variety of disciplines and broad fields of health, natural sciences and engineering, and social sciences and humanities, including interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research. This support allows scholars to more fully concentrate on their doctoral studies, to seek out the best research mentors in their chosen fields and contribute to the Canadian research ecosystem during and beyond the tenure of their awards.

Application deadline: November 26, 2024
Funding available: $50,000 to fund approximately 40 awards. Of the approximately 40 awards: 20 awards will be offered to postdoctoral trainees 15 awards will be offered to doctoral trainees 5 awards will be offered to masters trainees.

The CIHR-IA Summer Program in Aging (SPA) is an intensive 5-day capacity-building program with the aim of providing graduate trainees with advanced training that crosses disciplines, offers networking opportunities, and disseminates best practices in research. SPA has been held yearly across Canada since 2006 on a different strategic theme each year. The program brings together up to 40 research trainees and numerous academic mentors to participate in interactive learning sessions over the course of one week. The strategic theme for SPA 2025 will be Training a Healthcare Workforce to Meet the Needs of Older Adults.

LOI deadline: November 27, 2024
Application deadline: December 11, 2024
Funding available: Up to $1,000,000 over four years for the Canadian component

Neurodegenerative diseases; primary and secondary prevention, treatment, and quality of life improvements.

Application deadline: December 2, 2024
Funding available: $50,000 to $150,000 CAD

The Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation (CABHI), an external partner of the CIHR Brain Health and Cognitive Impairment Research Initiative, recognizes the critical hurdles early-stage Canadian innovators face when designing products, programs, and services for older persons.

Ignite is a program designed to target these challenges by offering innovators $50,000 to $150,000 CAD in funding, along with acceleration services, to help develop, test, and validate their solutions.

Funds can be applied towards a variety of activities, such as:

• Technological research and development (R&D) activities
• Concept and prototype development
• Testing and simulation activities
• Validation trials

Application deadline: December 2, 2024
Funding available: $17,500 for 12 months

The Canada Graduate Scholarships Master’s Awards are intended to provide special recognition and support to students who are pursuing a Master’s degree in a health related field at a Canadian institution. These candidates are expected to have an exceptionally high potential for future research achievement and productivity.

Application deadline: December 3, 2024
Funding available: Up to $100,000 over one year

Early and mid-career researchers; Indigenous researchers; pilot data related to digital health.

Application deadline: December 19, 2024
Funding available: The total amount available for this funding opportunity is $90,000, enough to fund six (6) awards. This amount may increase if additional funding partners participate. The maximum amount per award is $15,000 for up to one (1) year.

The Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation (CABHI), an external partner of the CIHR Brain Health and Cognitive Impairment Research Initiative, recognizes the critical hurdles early-stage Canadian innovators face when designing products, programs, and services for older persons.

Ignite is a program designed to target these challenges by offering innovators $50,000 to $150,000 CAD in funding, along with acceleration services, to help develop, test, and validate their solutions.

Funds can be applied towards a variety of activities, such as:

• Technological research and development (R&D) activities
• Concept and prototype development
• Testing and simulation activities
• Validation trials

LOI deadline: August 2, 2024
Application deadline: December 20, 2024
Funding available: $300,000

BrightFocus provides research funds for U.S. domestic as well as international researchers pursuing pioneering research leading to greater understanding, prevention, and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. The standard award provides significant funding for researchers who have already generated some amount of preliminary data, but are often required to demonstrate additional, significant progress before they can apply to governmental or industrial funding agencies.

Application deadline: January 9, 2025
Funding available: Grants generally range from $10,000 – $35,000

Supports innovative research in community health, with particular interest in applied research and academic/community collaborations.

Application deadline: January 22, 2025
Funding available: Estimated total of $10 million to fund 8-10 awards

Since 2014, the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® (BRAIN) Initiative has aimed to accelerate the development and application of innovative neurotechnologies, enabling researchers to produce a new dynamic picture of the brain that reveals how individual cells and complex neural circuits interact in both time and space. It is expected that these advances will ultimately lead to new ways to treat and prevent brain disorders.https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MH-26-100.html

LOI deadline: January 23, 2025
Application deadline: February 19, 2025
Funding available: $25,000

These awards recognize completed research projects under the following broad IMHA mandate areas:

Indigenous Health Research
Open Science
Research Impact
Team Science
Patient Engagement
Implementation Science

Investigators must be either early or mid-career researchers, or an Indigenous or individual affiliated with an Indigenous non-governmental organization with a research and/or knowledge mandate.

Application deadline: Rolling
Funding available: $1,000

McMaster’s Office of Community Engagement offers small catalyst grants to McMaster University faculty, staff, students and their community partners through the Community-Campus Catalyst Grant Fund. These funds are available in amounts of up to $1000 each.

The goal of the Community-Campus Catalyst Fund is to support community-campus partnerships that align with the goals of McMaster’s Community Engagement Strategic Plan. Reflecting on this goal, proposals that involve collaborative projects with community partners working towards mutual benefit and pursuing outcomes aligned with McMaster’s community engagement goals and objectives will be prioritized for funding. Funding cannot be applied towards equipment, conference travel, or ongoing initiatives. Any application must be developed as a community-campus partnership and must include at least one community partner, at least, but not limited to, a program, department, or formal initiative that includes a faculty member, staff member or student. This fund has been developed to support new community-campus partnerships or partnerships in the early stages of development. More information

Application deadline: Rolling
Funding available: $250,000 for established investigators; $300,000 for ECRs

Available for topics relating to clinical research, medical education research, and health systems research.

Application deadline: Rolling
Funding available: $30,000

ELIGIBLE TYPES OF RESEARCH
• Clinical Research which is of direct relevance to patient care. Studies involving animals will be considered only if the animals are required as an immediate patient surrogate, which must be demonstrated in the written application.
• Medical Education Research which focuses on projects designed to assess through research in the post M.D. educational environment, such as curricula, methods and teaching resources. The Foundation recognizes that research within this area may involve teams that include non-medical researchers and consultants.

Please note:
This funding stream is intended to support hypothesis-driven research proposals; therefore, applications will only be considered for projects that evaluate curriculum, methods and teaching resources. Projects intended to create and/or develop curriculum, educational programs or tools will not be considered. Also, any costs attributed to the creation and/or development of curriculum, educational programs or tools will not be considered.

Research participants must be at the post M.D. level (e.g. residents) and cannot include undergraduate medical school students.

Health Systems Research which focuses on projects of a special nature within the healthcare system, such as preventative medicine, care of the elderly, communications within the system, underserviced regions and ways of enhancing the effectiveness of medical practice.

Application deadline: Rolling
Funding available: Variable

Eligibility for research grants is limited to faculty, PhD students and postdoctoral researchers from accredited higher education institutions and eligible nonprofit research institutions in approved countries. Review program FAQs to learn more.

Application deadline: Rolling
Funding available: No stipulations

Allergan Inc. considers Grants and/or Donations requests from institutions or charities, provided they are restricted to the enhancement of patient care, genuine clinical research and/or genuine charitable causes

Application deadline: Rolling
Funding available: No stipulations

Applications must focus on one of the following areas: Rheumatology, Dermatology, Gastroenterology, Hematology-Oncology, Urology, Women’s Health, Migraine, Movement Disorders, Ophthalmology, Virology, Psychiatry.

Application deadline: Rolling
Funding available: See call

The call is open to all biomarker categories that will advance drug development for Alzheimer’s and related dementias. The expected context of use, which defines a biomarker’s intended use clinically as a diagnostic or in drug development, should be described in the application. These categories, as defined by the FDA, include diagnostic, monitoring, predictive, prognostic, pharmacodynamic/response, safety, and susceptibility/risk biomarkers. Additionally, the applicant should articulate where in the path to commercialization the study falls and what is the proposed plan forward.

Application deadline: Rolling pre-submission inquiry
Funding available: $1,000,000

To support the advancement of and opportunities for Real-World Data platforms, the Alzheimer’s Association is launching a peer-reviewed funding program to augment and accelerate global initiatives aimed at developing, expanding and aligning Real-World Data platforms’ infrastructure, data and impact.

Application deadline: Rolling pre-submission inquiry
Funding available: $1,000,000

The World Wide FINGERS (WW-FINGERS) Network launched in 2017 as the first global network of multidomain lifestyle intervention trials for dementia risk reduction and ultimately prevention. Studies that participate in the WW-FINGERS network aim to apply, test and optimize the FINGER-like model to reduce risk across the spectrum of cognitive decline in different geographical, cultural and economic settings in individuals at greater risk as they age.

LOI deadline: August 2, 2024
Application deadline: December 20, 2024
Funding available: $200,000

Postdoctoral fellowship awards are intended for young researchers in their final stages of mentored training. These awards fund projects in an established laboratory that will serve as the basis for the applicant’s own independent research career.

Application deadline: Rolling
Funding available: Up to 5,000

These grants of up to $5,000 cover costs associated with accessing and working with large data sources, which are necessary to carry out data-intensive research and application. The purpose of these grants is to foster research by mitigating the high cost of access to many data sets. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until two grants have been funded in a given academic year.

Application deadline: Rolling
Funding available: Awarded funds will vary based on project need.

The trial should plan to test specific interventions or pathways of care for the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of heart and circulatory diseases. Interventions include drugs, surgery, devices, psychological, physical and educational interventions. The trial should address an unmet clinical need of importance to people affected by, or at risk of, cardiovascular disease. Its results should have the potential to change clinical practice. There should be a clear need for a multinational trial to answer the clinical question.

Application deadline: Rolling
Funding available: Variable

Max Bell Foundation makes grants to support projects that are designed to inform public policy. We do so across four program areas: Education; Environment; Health & Wellness; and Civic Engagement and Democratic Institutions.

Application deadline: Rolling
Funding available: $30,000 – $60,000 in matching funding to support postdoctoral internships with partner organizations

Application deadline: Rolling
Funding available: $20,000 to $1,000,000 per year for one to five years

NSERC Alliance grants encourage university researchers to collaborate with partner organizations, which can be from the private, public or not-for-profit sectors. Funding may support research and development projects that seek to respond to a research challenge in the natural sciences or engineering while working with external partners who are able to accelerate scale-up, application, impact, or commercialization. NSERC is now accepting Option 1 applications requiring at least 50 percent matching cash contributions from partner organizations, and Option 2, involves non-profit partners and requesting 90 to 100 percent funding support from NSERC.

Application deadline: Rolling
Funding available: Variable

The Physician’s Services Incorporated (PSI) Foundation provides grants to practising physicians for health research with an emphasis on research relevant to patient care, including clinical research; medical education research at the post-MD level; health systems research, and healthcare research by community physicians. Many of PSI’s funding streams are open to applications on a rolling basis; PSI Clinical Research; PSI Medical Education Research at the Post M.D. Level, PSI Health Systems Research; PSI New Investigator and PSI Healthcare Research by Community Physicians offer up to $250,000 – $300,000 for a maximum of three years (maximum $100,000 in any one year). See more information on PSI funding calls with rolling deadlines.