Heart & Stroke - New Investigator 2023

Sponsor

Heart & Stroke

For More Information

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

  • Program guidelines
  • Application forms
  • Evaluation criteria

Description

The New Investigator (NI) program is a salary award to support new investigators who have demonstrated excellence in their doctoral and post- doctoral training and wish to establish their own independent research career. Salary awards provide an added incentive for researchers to continue or begin their program of cardiovascular or cerebrovascular research within Canada.

More information can be found in the attached Heart & Stroke New Investigator submission guidelines document.

Eligibility

a.   A New Investigator may not be in receipt of another major Personnel award from another national funding agency at the same time as holding a Personnel Award from Heart & Stroke. Likewise, an awardee may not concurrently hold a Canada Research Chair and a Heart & Stroke New Investigator, Alberta New Investigator, or an Ontario Clinician Scientist award. In addition, an awardee may not hold two Heart & Stroke Personnel Awards (national and provincial) concurrently. However, an awardee may accept supplemental funding; no greater than 50% of the value of the Heart & Stroke award if it is from a local or provincial funding source.

b. At the time of submission, the applicant must have a full-time appointment at the Assistant Professor level or above in Canada; 

c. At the time of submission, and for the duration of the award, award recipients are ineligible if they hold or have already held funding, directly or indirectly, from the tobacco and/or cannabis industry.

d. The applicant should clearly demonstrate the potential to become an independent investigator.

e. At the time of submission, no more than five (5) years may have passed since the date of the first faculty appointment at the Assistant or Clinical Assistant Professor level. This would include Adjunct positions in a research track for which the applicant is eligible to write a Grant-in-Aid as a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator. The date of first faculty appointment will be based on the date listed in the Common CV (i.e., under Employment).

f. Applications for this award must be supported by the university or institution at which the applicant will conduct the proposed research program. The university or institution is expected to guarantee the applicant appropriate academic rank and to provide adequate space and facilities for the investigator’s research, commensurate with the status of the individual’s experience and level of support from Heart & Stroke.

g. The applicant must have an MD, PhD, or equivalent degree.

h. The Dean and Department Head (or institutional equivalents) must guarantee at least 75% of the applicant’s time will be allocated to the proposed research program.

i. The applicant must hold an operating grant in support of the proposed research program at the time of this award; such grant(s) may be from Heart & Stroke and/or other granting agencies. The research grant support has the following additional requirements:

i) For each year of the three (3) years of the award, the recipient must be a Principal or CoPrincipal Investigator on a peer-reviewed grant originating from a national or provincial funding agency, irrespective of the amount of the grant.

ii) The recipient must have at least $30,000 per year of research funding for which the recipient is Principal or Co-Principal Investigator.

iii) Peer reviewed/Non-Peer reviewed funding

• For years one (1) and two (2) of the award, research funding may originate from peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed sources.

• For year three (3) of the award, research funding must originate from peer-reviewed sources.

Maximum Project Value

Tenure / Stipend and Allowances – $60,000/year

Indirect Costs

0%

Project Duration

3 years – the award cannot be renewed for a second term

Special Notes

All applicants are strongly encouraged to complete CIHR’s Institute of Gender and Health training modules: Online Training Modules.

Applicants are strongly encouraged to complete Women’s College Hospital’s Intersectionality as a Research Lens Training Module and CIHR’s Unconscious Bias in Peer Review Training Video Module. 

EDI

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

EDI considerations will not be explicitly included in the evaluation criteria in the 2023-2024 competition. Heart & Stroke anticipates further incorporating and formalizing evaluation of EDI considerations into grant review in subsequent competitions. 

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.

Deadlines

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

TypeDateNotes
Internal Deadline

Applicant to submit a copy of application, signature page and letters of support along with a complete OR5 form to: research.services@uoguelph.ca.

External Deadline

Applicants to complete and submit application using the Heart & Stroke’s electronic grant management system (CIRCUlink).   CIRCUlink will not accept submissions after this deadline.  Any applications attempted or submitted after the deadline will NOT be accepted. There will be no appeal process to late submissions. It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure that a completed application, including letters of support and all required signatures, is submitted online via CIRCUlink prior to the deadline. 

Applications will not be accepted by email. 

For more information on the application and how to apply, see the attached Heart & Stroke submission guidelines document.

Pages should be single-spaced using either 12 point Times New Roman or 11 point Arial font. Condensed type or spacing is not acceptable.  Appendices (if applicable) should appear after the CVs. A margin of 2 cm around the page is needed.  No photo-reduction except for figures. Applications that do not respect the 6-page limitation will be removed from the competition (without appeal). 

Attachment(s)

For Questions, please contact

Email: research@heartandstroke.ca

Heart & Stroke Research 

Common CV Support: Please note that CCV support is now provided through the CCV centralized help desk. Email: support@cihr-irsc.gc.ca / Telephone: 613-954-1968 / Toll free: 1-888-603-4178.

Office of Research

Ornella McCarron, Grants Officer
Research Services Office
519-824-4120 x52832
omccarro@uoguelph.ca

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