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CIHR Project Grant Fall 2025

Sponsor/agency: Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

Program: Project Grant: Fall 2025

Description 

The Project Grant is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential for important advances in fundamental or applied health-related knowledge, health care, health systems and/or health outcomes by supporting projects of research proposed and conducted by individual researchers or groups of researchers in all areas of health. The Project Grant program is open to applicants in all areas of health research that are aligned with the CIHR mandate.

Objectives

The Project Grant program is expected to:

• Support a diverse portfolio of health-related research and knowledge translation proposals at any stage, from discovery to application, including commercialization;
• Promote relevant collaborations across disciplines, professions and sectors; and
• Contribute to the creation and use of health-related knowledge.

Program Summary 

Deadlines:

  • August 13, 2025: Mandatory registration deadline
    • Registration is mandatory; applicants cannot submit an application if they do not register.
    • For registration, applicants are required to have a CIHR PIN and an account with ResearchNet.
  • August 20, 2025: ORS internal comprehensive review deadline 
    • ORS internal deadline for a comprehensive review. Applicants are strongly encouraged to submit their applications via email to Raluca Dubrowski for a comprehensive review of the application.
  • September 9, 2025. Mandatory internal administrative review deadline
    • ORS internal deadline for administrative review. Please submit the pdf of your ResearchNet application along with a complete and signed RGA form via email to Raluca Dubrowski.
  • September 10, 2025: Mandatory CIHR deadline 
    • Applications must be submitted in the ResearchNet system by 9:00 a.m. The grants officer will conduct a final review for completeness and submit it to the funder. The funder deadline is 8:00 p.m.

Value: There is no minimum or maximum limit per year or in total for the Project Grant.

Duration: There is no actual duration limit for the Project Grant. Most grants range between 2 and 5 years.

How to Apply:

  1. Notify Amber Zapletal of your intent to apply to the Fall 2025 competition as soon as possible. 
  2. Review the grant requirements, peer review manual and the evaluation criteria.
  3. Complete or update your CCV (CIHR Biosketch version). 
  4. Register for the Project Grant Fall 2025 competition, in the ResearchNet, by the August 13, 2025 deadline.
  5. After you register, complete your application in the ResearchNet portal and submit your application for review to Raluca Dubrowski by the deadlines outlined above.

Contact:

Program information:

  • Program Website
  • Webinars CIHR will be hosting several webinars to support participants with the requirements of the Project Grant. Once scheduled, the webinar details will be posted here.
  • ORS Information Session to support applicants prepare their applications, ORS prepared an information session for the CIHR Project Grant. The invited guest for the information session is Dr. JoAnne Arcand from the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ontario Tech University. Dr. Arcand has served as a reviewer for the CIHR Project Grant for several years and holds several CIHR Project Grants. The recording of the information session can be accessed here.  

Eligibility 

All eligibility information can be found here.

Additional Information 

Consultant Honorarium Program ORS review is often well complemented by the review of a disciplinary expert who can assess the technical aspects of your proposal. You are therefore encouraged to solicit colleagues to act as peer reviewers to help refine your grant proposal. ORS will offer a $150 honorarium to external consultants in the applicant’s field with previous success in the CIHR Project Grant. Consultant review should focus on the methodology of the application from the perspective of a disciplinary expert. Note that there is a limit of one honorarium per applicant. Please contact Raluca Dubrowski if you wish to take advantage of this program.

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