Competition

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

Priority Announcements (PAs) offer additional sources of funding for highly rated applications that are relevant to specific research areas. Applications are submitted through the “202509PJT” competition of the Project Grant: Fall 2025 funding opportunity. Frequently Asked Questions provide additional information on the PA program.

CIHR Research Priority Areas:

• Acute asthma care across the lifespan

• Acute Care in Older Adults

• Antimicrobial Resistance (Bridge Grant)

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

• CIHR Institute of Aging – Prizes in Research on Aging

• CIHR Institute of Aging Prize: Yves Joanette Award of Excellence in Research in Aging

• CIHR Institute of Cancer Research – Breast Cancer Prevention, Early Detection, and Survivorship

• CIHR Institute of Cancer Research – Cancer Prevention, Early Detection, and Survivorship

• CIHR Institute of Cancer Research – Early Career Researcher Award in Cancer

• Cystic fibrosis across the lifespan

• Female Athlete Health

• Food Security and Climate Change in the Canadian North (Bridge Grant)

• Health and Official Languages in Minority Communities

• Genetics: Research Priorities (Bridge Funding)

• Global Health Research

• 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 Grant)

• Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis: IMHA Mandate Areas, Pain, and Dental Amalgams Replacement

• Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction

• Institute of Nutrition Metabolism and Diabetes (Bridge Funding)

• Institute of Population and Public Health

• Maud Menten New Principal Investigator Prizes in Genetics (2025)

• Pandemics and Health Emergencies Research

• Research on Prevention or Response to Covid-19 or Similar Future Pandemics

• Robyn Tamblyn Mid-Career HSPR Innovator Award

• Sex and Gender in Health Research

• Strategy for Patient oriented Research (SPOR)

• The Bhagirath Singh Early Career Award in Infection and Immunity

• Trends in Cardiovascular Outcomes in Canadians Across the Lifespan

Eligibility: For eligibility requirements, please refer to the Project Grant : Fall 2025 funding opportunity.

Guidelines: For Guidelines, please refer to the Project Grant: Fall 2025 funding opportunity.

Priority Announcements (with the exception of Prizes) require that the Nominated Principal Investigator submits an electronic Final Report to CIHR.

Prizes are supplemental grants to support research and must be used according to the Tri-agency financial administration guide. Prizes are not personal awards and are non-renewable.

(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.] 

Full application internal review: 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.