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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.