Grants and Contributions

By engaging thousands of talented young researchers, the programs of the NCE attract and train tomorrow's scientific and business leaders, ensuring that Canada remains competitive in the global economy.

• Canada’s Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) is a national coalition of federal, provincial and territorial partners (patients and informal caregivers, provincial health authorities, health centres, charities, philanthropic organizations, private sector, etc.) dedicated to the integration of research into care. Its vision is that by 2025, Canada will have demonstrably improved health outcomes and enhanced the health care experience for patients through the integration of evidence at all levels of the health care system.
• As outlined in the SPOR Patient Engagement Framework, patient-oriented research refers to a continuum of research that engages patients as partners, focusses on patient-identified priorities and improves patient outcomes. This research, conducted by multidisciplinary teams in partnership with relevant stakeholders, aims to apply the knowledge generated to improve healthcare systems and practices.
• As a partner in SPOR, CIHR will provide bridge funding for fundable applications that are below the competition funding cut-off and aligned with the SPOR vision and the SPOR Patient Engagement Framework. Categories are described in the Funds Available section.

This funding opportunity is expected to:
•Catalyze patient-oriented research aligned with the SPOR Patient Engagement Framework and SPOR Capacity Development Framework by:
¿Developing partnerships amongst patients and patient communities, researchers, health care professionals and health system decision-makers or policy-makers;
¿Mobilizing the above partnerships to develop and conduct a patient-oriented research project or projects; and,
¿Informing future applications for more comprehensive patient-oriented research grants.

This prize will be given annually to Early Career Investigators ranking high in the Project Scheme competitions that fall within the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) mandate:

o ICR has a mandate to support research that reduces the burden of cancer on individuals and families through prevention strategies, screening, diagnosis, effective treatments, psycho-social support systems, and palliation.

• The CIHR Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (CIHR-IMHA) will fund applications that are determined to be relevant to the mandate and research priority areas of CIHR-IMHA as described below:
o Arthritis

By engaging thousands of talented young researchers, the programs of the NCE attract and train tomorrow's scientific and business leaders, ensuring that Canada remains competitive in the global economy.

• Incorporating sex and gender into health research makes for better science that is more rigorous and more applicable to the needs of everybody. The Institute of Gender and Health (IGH) will provide funding for applications to the following research priority areas:

o Integration: Applications that clearly articulate how sex and/or gender will be integrated into research designs and approaches (e.g., designs that test hypotheses related to the effects of sex and/or gender; studies focused on similarities and differences within or between groups of women, girls, men, boys or gender-diverse people, studies that explicitly use male and/or female animal/tissue or cell models to explore sex-based mechanisms).
o Innovation: Applications that foster innovative approaches to sex, gender and health research (e.g., applications that develop, assess and/or enhance theories and conceptual frameworks that underpin research or that contribute to methods and measurement tools).

• The Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction (INMHA) will fund an application that is determined to be relevant to the mandate and research priority areas of CIHR-INMHA
o The Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction supports (INMHA) research to enhance mental health, neurological health, vision, hearing, and cognitive functioning and to reduce the burden of related disorders through prevention strategies, screening, diagnosis, treatment, support systems, and palliation.

This funding opportunity is expected to:
•Catalyze patient-oriented research aligned with the SPOR Patient Engagement Framework and SPOR Capacity Development Framework by:
¿Developing partnerships amongst patients and patient communities, researchers, health care professionals and health system decision-makers or policy-makers;
¿Mobilizing the above partnerships to develop and conduct a patient-oriented research project or projects; and,
¿Informing future applications for more comprehensive patient-oriented research grants.

This funding opportunity is expected to:

• Advance knowledge through the analysis of existing cohorts, data platforms and/or administrative datasets specific to one of the research areas above.