Sponsor

Heart & Stroke

For More Information

For additional information, please visit the Heart & Stroke website [1] for

• Program guidelines
• Application forms
• Evaluation criteria

Description

The Grant-in-Aid (GIA) program provides operating funds to support important, pertinent, novel research in the areas of heart disease and stroke. GIA funding promotes research discovery, exploration and innovation across all health research themes. Knowledge gained from scientific findings contributes to the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health of Canadians through prevention, treatment and recovery.

Research is supported across the four health research themes:

• Basic biomedical
• Clinical
• Health services/systems
• Social, cultural, environmental and population health.

See attached Grant-in-Aid submission guidelines for more information.

Eligibility

Principal Investigators (and Co-PIs) must have a full-time academic or faculty appointment (i.e., at minimum, at the Assistant or Clinical Assistant Professor level) in Canada at the time the application is submitted. The date of first faculty appointment will be based on the date listed in the Common CV (i.e., under Employment).  Please ensure your Common CV is updated and correctly identifies a valid appointment. Applicants holding lecturer/clinical scholar of similar university appointments that are of lower tier than Assistant Professor appointments are not eligible to apply as  PI and co-PI. 

For any application with a PI and co-PI, should the PI be deemed ineligible the entire application will be withdrawn from the competition. There will be no appeal process for applications deemed ineligible. 

Applicants holding adjunct appointments at an academic institution must submit a letter from their dean/chair/division director to clarify that through their specific appointment they are accorded protected time for research. The letter is required to quantify the amount of protected time available, their access to research infrastructure and their access to other resources necessary to conduct the proposed research study. Failure to include this explanatory letter with all required components will result in withdrawal of the application (without appeal).

Maximum Project Value

$100,000/year to a maximum of $300,000/grant

Indirect Costs

0%

Project Duration

3 years maximum

Special Notes

Ethical Requirements

Heart & Stroke requires a copy of all ethics/safety review board approval forms. In the CIRCUlink application, please indicate the status of such forms (e.g., “Included”, “Form to be Sent”, “Not applicable”) as they apply to the research proposal.  If the application is accepted for funding, funds will be encumbered pending receipt of all required forms.  Approval forms need to clearly mention the duration/expiry date when uploaded to CIRCUlink.

EDI

Applicants are encouraged to describe how EDI considerations have been integrated into their research design (EDI-RD), as appropriate.

COVID-19

Please note that research activities carried out in the context of COVID-19 need to adhere to the University of Guelph COVID-19 research principles, policies, guidelines and processes as they may be updated from time to time and communicated on the Office of Research web-page. [2]

Information For Co-applicants

If you need to meet a deadline set by the lead institution for this opportunity, please ensure that you provide the Office of Research with at least five days in advance of the lead institution’s deadline to review the application, or your proposed component of the project. Please be in touch with the Office of Research (contact information below) ahead of the deadline if it looks like it will be difficult for you to submit all the required documentation on time (i.e. budget, proposal, OR-5 Form).

Attachment(s)

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