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Identifying Suitable Grants#

Grant Databases & Websites#

Canadian funding opportunities

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)#

CIHR has several funding programs. Read more

  • New Frontiers in Research Fund
  • Training award programs
  • Project Grant Program
  • Foundation Grant Program
  • Initiatives
  • Prizes

Note: Check with your PI if you are unsure of which program to apply for. If you have access to UHN email, you can also track emails from research-community-news-bounces@uhnresearch.ca.

Applying for funding - List of current funding opportunities

Note

Benjamin will have an account on ResearchNet. Your PI can add you as delegate on the application. Final submission can be done only by the NPI. Please reach out directly to Benjamin or contact Sisira at sisira.nair@uhn.ca for questions regarding submission portal for the lab.

Genome Canada (GAPP)#

Funding guidelines and policies

Funding opportunities

Terry Fox Research Institute (TFRI)#

Programs for Funding Research

Cancer Research Society (CRS)#

Funding Programs

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)#

NSERC has several programs for both Professors and Students/Fellows. Please check sub-sections within the below links.

Discover grants Innovate grants

Canadian Cancer Society (CCS)#

Open funding opportunities for Researchers

Application portal

Note

Benjamin will have an account on EGrAMS. Please reach out directly or contact Sisira at sisira.nair@uhn.ca for questions regarding submission portal for the lab.

University of Toronto Data Sciences Institute (DSI)#

Funding Opportunities

Programs include, not limited to: Catalyst Grant program, competitive seed funding program Data Access Grant Research Software Development Support Program

Digital Research Alliance of Canada (DRA)#

Funding Opportunities

Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR)#

Funding Opportunities

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre (PM/PMCC)#

PM offers a variety of seed funding to support researchers. Please check UHN emails for funding announcement.

The Temerty Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education in Medicine (T-CAIREM) at the University of Toronto#

Past TCAIREM grants include T-CAIREM/DSI Catalyst Grants, T-CAIREM Health Data Nexus Dataset Grants, AI for Population Health and Health Systems Implementation Grant, Vector Institute-Temerty Clinical AI Integration Grant etc.

Grant Opportunities

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)#

Current research programs

Corporate funding opportunities

Roche#

Roche Canada Funding Request Tool

International funding opportunities

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (DOD)#

This is an extensive process. Please request the help of Research Grants months ahead for advice and document requirements.

Grant Programs

The DataWorks! Prize (FASEB & NIH)#

Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) hosts an annual challenge that showcases the benefits of research data management while recognizing and rewarding teams whose research demonstrates the power of data sharing or reuse practices. Webpage only

EU funding#

European Commission: Horizon Europe has Pillar I and II funding programs.

  • Pillar I - Investigator-driven initiatives in all research areas that give the scientific community a strong role in determining the avenues of research to be pursued:

  • Pillar II - Collaborative research and innovation projects responding to thematically specific calls for proposals within the following six clusters that address key societal challenges.

Read more

Check here for active funding calls using filter view

Cloud credits opportunities

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)#

Apply for Google Cloud research credits

Amazon Web Services (AWS)#

AWS Cloud Credit for Research

You can also check Azure Research credits