CIHR Gold Leaf Prizes 2022

Sponsor

Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Description

CIHR’s suite of prizes, the CIHR Gold Leaf Prizes, are among the highest honours that can be bestowed on an individual or team for excellence in health research and its translation into benefits for Canadians. Each CIHR Gold Leaf Prize has a value of $100,000. These prizes cover achievements across all pillars of research (biomedical, clinical, health services and policy, and population and public health) and will be awarded every two years.

CIHR presents a Gold Leaf Prize to a researcher in each of the following categories:

  • CIHR Gold Leaf Prize for Impact
    This prize is awarded to an individual or team for health research with a proven impact on health outcomes, practices, policies, and/or on the health system.

  • CIHR Gold Leaf Prize for Discovery
    This prize is awarded to an individual or team whose research findings are unique, inspirational and break new ground, significantly influencing knowledge in their field.

  • CIHR Gold Leaf Prize for Outstanding Achievements by an Early Career Investigator
    CIHR is committed to helping develop the next generation of great scientific minds. This prize is awarded to an investigator at the beginning of their career who shows great potential and is expected to continue to produce research of exceptional merit.

  • CIHR Gold Leaf Prize for Transformation
    This prize is awarded for transformative leadership in a given CIHR priority area. The 2022 priority area is to be determined

    CIHR believes strongly in the importance of making patient engagement part of the research process. This prize will be awarded to an individual or team that collaborates with patients, advances patient engagement as a priority and focuses on outcomes that are important to patients.

Program details and timeline are not yet confirmed. This information will be updated when the program launches.

Eligibility

  • Nominations will be accepted from individuals, institutions, organizations and networks that have the ability to complete and submit the full nomination package by the deadline date.
  • Nominations may be submitted for individuals or teams within the Canadian context.
  • Self-nominations will not be accepted.
  • For outstanding achievement by an early career investigator the nominated candidates must hold a full time research appointment (e.g., faculty appointment providing eligibility to apply for grants and/or supervise trainees) for a period of 0 to 10 years.

Prize

Each CIHR Gold Leaf Prize has a value of $100,000.

Deadlines

If College-level review is required, your College will communicate its earlier internal deadlines.

TypeDateNotes
Internal Deadline

If you wish to be considered for VPR nomination: 

  1. We recommend discussing your interest in this award with your College Research Manager and Associate Dean (Research).
  2. Complete the Expression of Interest document
  3. Send the completed Expression of Interest document and a CV to research.honours@uoguelph.ca and copy your College Research Manager. 

Career interruptions due to parental leave, family care, extended illness, or community responsibilities will not negatively impact the committee’s assessment of a candidate’s research productivity. These will be taken into consideration when EOIs are assessed.

 

External Deadline

If your nomination will be submitted by a nominator other than the VPR, please submit directly to the sponsor by the external deadline. Please also submit a copy of the full nomination and OR-5 to research.services@uoguelph.ca.

How to Apply

The Vice-President (Research) encourages nominations for this prestigious award, and will serve as nominator for those nominees recommended by the Honours and Awards Advisory Committee. If you wish to nominate a colleague or to be considered for VPR nomination:

  1. We recommend discussing your interest in this award with your College Research Manager and Associate Dean (Research).
  2. Complete the Expression of Interest document
  3. Send the completed Expression of Interest document and a CV to research.honours@uoguelph.ca and copy your College Research Manager by the internal deadline.

Career interruptions due to parental leave, family care, extended illness, or community responsibilities will not negatively impact the committee’s assessment of a candidate’s research productivity. These will be taken into consideration when EOIs are assessed.

If your nomination will be submitted by a different nominee, and therefore does not require the Vice-President's endorsement, please submit a complete nomination and signed OR-5 to research.services@uoguelph.ca by the external deadline.

For More Information

For information please contact support-soutien@cihr-irsc.gc.ca or research.honours@uoguelph.ca.

Alert Classifications
Category:
Honours and Awards

Disciplines:
Health and Life Sciences