New Investigator Research Grant Program

Sponsor

SickKids Foundation

For More Information

Please refer to the sponsor's Guidelines for information on eligibility, application content and criteria.

Description

SickKids Foundation seeks to strengthen Canada’s capacity and knowledge to respond to children’s health challenges and needs. To do so, we grant funds to research projects that have the potential for significant impact in areas of children’s health needs based on scientific excellence and relevance to child health. 

New Investigator Research Grants provide important early career development support to child health researchers. It is intended that this program will enhance the grant recipient’s ability to compete with more senior investigators for research grants from other funders. Through this grants program, we are seeking to fund research carried out by new investigators across Canada who successfully lead, participate in, and translate outstanding child health research that will respond to children’s health challenges and needs.

Eligibility

The applicant must be a new investigator at the date of application. For the purposes of this award, a new investigator is defined as an individual who:

• As a Principal Investigator, has not been awarded combined Operating Grant funding of $500,000 or more Canadian dollars. Note: Should an Operating Grant be received after the application is submitted, the applicant must notify SickKids Foundation immediately.
• Is within 5 years of their first academic appointment as an independent researcher (see page 5 of guidelines, ‘Recognition of a break in research career’ for additional considerations).
• Has at least 50% of protected research time for the duration of the project.

Funding Availability

$100,000 annually for up to 3 years

Maximum Project Value

$300,000

Indirect Costs

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