Project Grant Program

At a glance

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. The best ideas may stem from:

  • new, incremental, innovative, and/or high-risk lines of inquiry; or,
  • knowledge translation approaches.

View funding opportunity

Next important dates

  • Registration deadline for Fall 2023 Project Grant Competition: August 17, 2023
  • Application deadline for Fall 2023 Project Grant Competition: September 14, 2023
  • Release of Notice of Recommendation for the Fall 2023 Project Grant Competition: January 17, 2024
  • Release of Notice of Decision for the Fall 2023 Project Grant Competition: January 31, 2024
  • Funding Start date for the Fall 2023 Project Grant Competition: April 1, 2024

Eligibility

The Project Grant program is open to researchers at any career stage to build and conduct health-related research and knowledge translation projects across CIHR's mandate.

View more eligibility details

Contact us

Officers are available Monday to Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET.

Telephone: 613-954-1968
Toll Free: 1-888-603-4178
support-soutien@cihr-irsc.gc.ca

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