Sponsor

The CIHR Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (CIHR-ICRH) in partnership with the CIHR Institute of Infection and Immunity (CIHR-III), the CIHR Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health (CIHR-IIPH), Canadian Blood Services (CBS) and Cystic Fibrosis Canada (CF Canada)

For More Information

For additional information, please visit the program's websites [1] for

• Program guidelines
• Application forms
• Evaluation criteria

Description

The 2019 Early Career Investigator Awards in Circulatory and Respiratory Health provide recipients with the opportunity to develop and demonstrate their independence in initiating and conducting research in ICRH mandate areas [2]. These awards are designed to provide protected time for early-career investigators to undertake research by contributing to both salary and research allowances.

Research Areas

Funding is available to support projects that are determined to be relevant to the following specific research areas:

1. The CIHR Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (ICRH) and the Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health (IIPH) will provide funding to support *Indigenous Health Research in any of ICRH’s mandate areas [2].
2. ICRH in partnership with Canadian Blood Services (CBS) will provide funding to support transfusion science research relevant to both ICRH mandates [2] and CBS Mission [3] (See eligibility requirements and conditions of funding) across any of the CIHR research themes (biomedical, clinical, health services, or population health research).
3. ICRH in partnership with Cystic Fibrosis Canada (CF Canada) will provide funding for cystic fibrosis research, across any of the CIHR research themes (biomedical, clinical, health services or population health research).
4. The CIHR Institute of Infection and Immunity (III) will provide funding to support research integrating infection and immunity knowledge in the control and prevention of circulatory and respiratory diseases.
5. ICRH will provide funding to support research relevant to any of ICRH’s mandates [2].

*Indigenous Health Research [4] is defined as any field or discipline related to health and/or wellness that is conducted by, grounded in or engaged with, First Nations, Inuit or Métis communities, societies or individuals and their wisdom, cultures, experiences or knowledge systems, as expressed in their dynamic forms, past and present.

Eligibility

For an application to be eligible:

1. The Nominated Principal Applicant (NPA) must be an independent researcher [5]
2. The NPA must be appointed at an eligible institution (See Institutional Eligibility Requirements [6] for eligibility process and associated timelines)
3. The NPA must also:
   1. be an early career investigator [7], within 60 months for their first academic appointment by the application deadline.
   2. Have a written commitment from their Institution, via a letter from the Dean of their primary Faculty or Research Director of their primary Research Institute which accompanies the application, that includes:
      • A commitment that the NPA will hold a full-time faculty or equivalent position.
      • A commitment to protect a minimum of 75% of the NPA’s time to research activities relevant to the Objectives [8] and Research Areas [9] described in the description section, limiting clinical service, teaching and/or administrative activities to a maximum of 25% of the NPA’s time for the duration of the award.
4. If applying as a Clinician Scientist, at the time of application, the NPA must hold a recognized training certification to practice as a health professional [10], as well as a full-time faculty or equivalent position as a clinician-scientist (see how to apply [11] section).
5. Transfusion Science Research Pool only: Clinical investigators (MD) or investigators with an MD-PhD are not eligible for this funding pool.
6. The Nominated Principal Applicant must have successfully completed one of the sex- and gender-based analysis training modules [12] available online through the CIHR Institute of Gender and Health and submit a Certificate of Completion (see how to apply [11] section). Applicants are encouraged to review the “How to integrate sex and gender in research [13]” section on the CIHR website.
7. In order to increase capacity and allow as many researchers as possible to benefit from this program, NPAs are ineligible to apply if they hold or have already held peer reviewed grants as NPA with a total sum value of $300,000 or more. This includes, but is not limited to peer-reviewed funding from CIHR, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), or Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). In addition, those currently holding another similar salary award, such as a Canada Research Chair Award, New Investigator Award or ECI award from any source are also ineligible.
8. For the Indigenous Health Research Pool, applicants must submit an “other” attachment describing their experience working in an Indigenous Health Research environment. See how to apply for more details.

Funding Availability

The total amount available for this funding opportunity is $2,415,000, enough to fund approximately seven (7) awards.

Of this $2,415,000:

• $690,000 is available to fund 2 CIHR-ICRH/IIPH 2019 Early Career Investigator Awards relevant to both ICRH [2] and IIPH [14] mandates
• $690,000 is available to fund 2  CIHR-ICRH/CBS 2019 Early Career Investigator Awards in transfusion science research relevant to both ICRH mandates [2] and CBS mission [3]
• $345,000 is available to fund 1 CIHR-ICRH/CF Canada 2019 Early Career Investigator Award in Cystic Fibrosis Research
• 345,000 is available to fund 1 CIHR-ICRH/III 2019 Early Career Investigator Award for research intersecting both ICRH [2] and III [15] mandates
• 345,000 is available to fund 1 CIHR-ICRH 2019 Early Career Investigator Award relevant to ICRH’s mandates [2]

Maximum Project Value

The maximum amount per award is $ 115,000 per year or a total of $345,000 per award. Of this $115,000, applicants may request:

• Salary contribution: up to a maximum of 40% or $46,000 per annum, including fringe benefits;
• Research Allowance: a minimum of 60% or $69,000 per annum.

Indirect Costs

0%

Project Duration

up to three (3) years 

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).