Personnel Support Program


The Heart and Stroke Foundation supports the development of researchers across the research career spectrum from doctoral students to career investigators.

Personnel awards are funded nationally through the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.

  1. Senior Personnel Awards

  2. Junior Personnel Awards

Senior Personnel Awards
  • HSFC New Investigator / Distinguished Clinician Scientist
New Investigator
The New Investigator award is a salary award to support new investigators who have demonstrated excellence in their pre and post doctoral training and wish to establish their own research laboratory.
Distinguished Clinician Scientist
The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada is offering a Distinguished Clinician Scientist award as an integral part of the New Investigator competition.  Candidates applying for the Distinguished Clinician Scientist award will also be considered in the regular pool of New Investigator applicants. This award, which is partnered this year with the CIHR Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health will be offered to the highest ranked eligible clinician in the New Investigator competition. The Distinguished Clinician Scientist award carries a higher stipend than the New Investigator award, plus an additional research allowance.

New Investigator and Distinguished Clinician Scientist awards are tenable in Canada only.

Applications to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada are due annually on September 1st to become tenable July 1st of the following year. 

Applications must be received by 16:00 EDT on the deadline date. If the deadline falls on a weekend, the application must be received by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada by 16:00 EDT the previous Friday.

Each year two new investigators are awarded the prestigious HSFC awards: The McDonald Scholarship and the Henry J.M. Barnett Scholarship.

Guidelines and Application Form for HSFC New Investigator / Distinguished Clinician Scientist 

  • HSFO Career Investigator

    The Career Investigator award of HSFO is to support established independent researchers who wish to make research their full-time career (Ontario applicants only).

    Applications to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada are due annually on September 1st to become tenable July 1st of the following year.

    Applications must be received by 16:00 EDT on the deadline date. If the deadline falls on a weekend, the application must be received by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada by 16:00 EDT the previous Friday.
Junior Personnel Awards
  • HSFC Doctoral Research Award

    Doctoral Research Award support highly qualified graduate students enrolled in a PhD program who are undertaking full-time research training in the cardiovascular or cerebrovascular fields.

    Please note the HSFC Doctoral Research Award program will not be offered for the 2011/2012 funding year. Current award recipients will continue to be supported until the end of their term; no new applications will be accepted in the fall open competition.

    However, Doctoral Research Awards will still be funded through the Focus on Stroke and Jump Start Resuscitation programs.

    Guidelines and Application Form for HSFC Doctoral Research Award 

  • HSFC Research Fellowship

    A Research Fellowship is an "in-training" award to support young investigators with a professional degree (PhD, MD, BM, DVM or equivalent) in initiating and/or continuing in the scientific method and chosen area of the cardiovascular or cerebrovascular fields.

    Applications to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada are due annually on November 1st to be tenable July 1st of the following year.

    Applications must be received by 16:00 EDT on the deadline date. If the deadline falls on a weekend, the application must be received by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada by 16:00 EDT the previous Friday. 

    Guidelines and Application Form for HSFC Research Fellowship 

    Please note the following additional opportunities:

    The 4th ICPC/HSFC/CCS Fellowship in Preventive Cardiology 

  • HSFC Research Scholarship

    The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada Research Scholarship is a salary award intended for applicants with a masters and/or PhD and with credential(s) in a regulated accredited health discipline. The objective is to attract and foster cardiovascular or cerebrovascular investigators from a variety of health disciplines. Each application is considered to be a joint submission by the applicant and the identified mentor.

    Applications to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada are due annually on November 1st to become tenable July 1st of the following year.

     

    Applications must be received by 16:00 EDT on the deadline date. If the deadline falls on a weekend, the application must be received by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada by 16:00 EDT the previous Friday. 

    Guidelines and Application Form for HSFC Research Scholarship 

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 18 August 2010 )