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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.

TypeDateNotes
Internal Deadline
Thursday, September 25, 2025 - 4:30pm

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
Thursday, October 2, 2025 - 3:00pm

Applicant to submit final application via sponsor portal: CIRCUlink [3]

For Questions, please contact

The sponsor can be contacted via email at research@heartandstroke.ca [4].

Office of Research

Laurie Green, Awards & Agreements Officer
Research Services Office
lagreen@uoguelph.ca [5]

Alert Classifications
Category:
Funding Opportunities and Sponsor News

Disciplines:
Health and Life Sciences

Source URL:https://www.uoguelph.ca/research/alerts/content/postdoctoral-fellowship-award

Links
[1] https://www.heartandstroke.ca/-/media/research/docs/2026-27/pfa-competition-guidelines.pdf?rev=4b0c104f7ced4b36a551c33a15ae31cb
[2] mailto:research.services@uoguelph.ca
[3] https://circulink.heartandstroke.ca/grantium/index.jsf
[4] mailto:research@heartandstroke.ca
[5] mailto:lagreen@uoguelph.ca