Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
Sponsor
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, in partnership with the Brain Canada Foundation
For More Information
Please review full Sponsor Guidelines [1] for application and eligibility instructions.
Description
The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (“Heart & Stroke”) Personnel Award programs provide salary support to Canada’s top researchers across the career continuum. This support helps ensure the training, retention, and success of Canada’s cardiovascular and cerebrovascular researchers. Heart & Stroke is contributing a total of up to $400,000 CAD for the Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards (“PFA”). The objective of the competition is to increase the number of researchers and clinician-scientists in Canadian universities and research institutions devoted specifically to cardiovascular and/or cerebrovascular health.
Eligibility
In order to be eligible to apply for the PFA competition, Applicants must meet the following criteria:
- As of the application deadline date, Applicants must be Canadian citizens, permanent residents of Canada or Protected Persons under subsection 95(2) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Canada) (see section B.4.3).
- Applicants must hold or be completing either (i) a PhD or (ii) a regulated health professional degree.
- At the time of submission, Applicants must either (i) have a position as a full-time Postdoctoral Fellow or Clinical Fellow at an eligible Canadian institution; or (ii) have applied for the position of full-time Postdoctoral Fellow or Clinical Fellow at an eligible Canadian institution with a start date of no later than December 31, 2026. Applicants must submit confirmation from their Host Institution of being enrolled/accepted as a full-time student; or have submitted an application for full-time admission, in a Postdoctoral or Clinical Fellowship program. For more details, please refer to the ‘Institutional Statement’ in section B.4.3. d. Clinical Fellows must be in a research stream.
- Partial Postdoctoral Personnel Awards for less than one (1) year of funding are not available.
- Applicants must have an identified research Supervisor based at an eligible Canadian institution where the research will be undertaken.
- Applicants may not hold, or be on leave from, an independent research position.
- At the time of submission, no more than five (5) years or sixty (60) months may have passed since the completion date of either the applicants (i) a PhD degree or (ii) a regulated health professional degree. Note that the eligibility period may be extended resulting from career interruption due to extenuating circumstances such as parental leave(s), illness etc. The period of eligibility will be extended by the equivalent duration of the eligible interruptions(s). Please refer to section B.4.3 BioSketch for more information.
- At the time of submission, and for the duration of the award, Recipients are ineligible if they hold or have already held funding, directly or indirectly, from the tobacco industry.
Maximum Project Value
Up to $140,000 for up to two (2) years ($70,000/year) for stipend support only
Indirect Costs
$0 per sponsor guidelines
Deadlines
If College-level review is required, your College will communicate its earlier internal deadlines.
Type | Date | Notes |
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Internal Deadline | Applicant to submit PDF of full application and signed OR-5 to Research Support Services via email at research.services@uoguelph.ca [2] | |
External Deadline | Applicant to submit final application via sponsor portal: CIRCUlink [3] |