Competition

* Unless explicitly noted, all times indicated for deadlines are for the appropriate NL timezone (NST or NDT)

2025 Details TBC - Information below is for reference only!

Priority Announcements (PAs) offer additional sources of funding for highly rated applications that are relevant to specific research areas. Applications are submitted through the “202409PJT” competition of the Project Grant: Fall 2024 funding opportunity. Frequently Asked Questions provide additional information on the PA program.

CIHR Research Priority Areas

• Aging

• Antimicrobial Resistance (Bridge Grant)

• Barer-Flood Senior Career Prize in Health Services and Policy Research

• Breast Cancer Research

• Cancer Research

• Cardiovascular health across the lifespan

• Early Career Researcher Award in Cancer

• Female Athlete Health

• Genetics: Research Priorities (Bridge Funding)

• Global Health Research

• Health and Official Languages in Minority Communities

• Health Services and Policy Research Rising Star Early Career Award

• HIV/AIDS and STBBI (Bridge Grant)

• Human Development, Child and Youth Health Research

• Infection and Immunity (Bridge Funding)

• Infection and Immunity (Early Career Researcher Multi-year Grant)

• Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis: General Mandate

• Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction

• Institute of Population and Public Health

• Maud Menten New Principal Investigator Prizes in Genetics (2024)

• Nutrition Metabolism and Diabetes Priority Announcement (Bridge Funding)

• Pandemics and Health Emergencies Research – Multi-year funding

• Patient-Oriented Research and Knowledge Mobilization

• Prize in Research on Aging

• Research in First Nations, Inuit and/or Métis Health

• Research in human development, child and/or youth health in Indigenous populations

• Research on First Nations, Inuit and/or Métis Lung Health

• Robyn Tamblyn Mid-Career HSPR Innovator Award

• Sex and Gender in Health Research

• The Bhagirath Singh Early Career Award in Infection and Immunity

• Yves Joanette Award of Excellence in Research in Aging

(Optional) Advanced Draft Feedback: For this competition, Memorial applicants may request detailed feedback on full draft applications or on application components. Normally, HSS Research Support Services would require draft applications to be submitted a minimum of 2 months ahead of the external deadline (see below for all deadlines). Please note that Advanced Draft Feedback deadlines may vary depending on the workflow of the HSS Research Support Services office. If you wish to request this service, please contact Heather C. O’Brien (HSSResearchAdmin@mun.ca or 864-8603) or Matthew Milner (HSSResearchGrants@mun.ca or 864-8050) as soon as possible.

Faculty of HSS mandatory internal deadlines: The Intent to Apply (EOI/LOI/NOI) does not require review from HSS or Research Initiatives and Services (RIS). However, please e-mail a pdf of the submitted EOI to a HSS Grants Facilitator: HSSResearchAdmin@mun.ca.] 

In addition to the external funding agency’s submission procedures, this opportunity must also be submitted for Departmental and HSS Faculty reviews and approvals via Memorial's Researcher Portal (RP). In order to facilitate the HSS Faculty’s administrative review, please ensure "Heather C. O'Brien (Grants Facilitator)" and “Matthew Milner (Grants Facilitator)” are added as "Team Members" on your RP file. 

In accordance with University-wide approval protocols, all tabs of the RP file must be completed, the completed application must be uploaded to the “Attachments” tab, all supporting documentation including support for cash and in-kind commitments and/or letters of support must also be uploaded, and “Submit” must be pressed prior to the HSS internal deadline listed below. HSS cannot guarantee completion of an administrative review for application files that are incomplete and/or are submitted after the HSS deadline. For more detailed submission instructions and information, please consult the HSS Research Support Services website.

If you plan to apply to this competition or other research funding opportunities (as either PI or CI), e-mail an HSS Grants Facilitator, Heather C. O’Brien (HSSResearchAdmin@mun.ca or 864-8603) or Matthew Milner (HSSResearchGrants@mun.ca or 864-8050), to notify the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of your intent to apply. E-mailing the intent to apply as early as possible will help to facilitate an efficient review. A Grants Facilitator can answer any questions you may have about internal or external submission procedures and may also be able to help with proposal development.