Grant-in-Aid Program
The Grant-in-Aid (GIA) program provides operating funds to support research in the areas of heart disease and/or stroke.
Visit the Heart and Stroke Foundation website for more information on the Grant-in-Aid program.
This program is currently closed. The details below reflect the previous call and are for general information purposes only. Updates will be posted as soon as the next round is announced.
Value and Duration
Up to $400,000 for up to four years.
Heart and Stroke will not approve total budgets exceeding $400K for a four-year term, $300K for a three-year term, $200K for a two-year term or $100K for a one-year term. For requested terms greater than one year, there is not an annual cap on request. However, please be advised that awarded budgets, including term, may result in cuts that could adversely affect the final award if not significantly justified.
Indirect costs are ineligible
Eligibility
Principal Investigators (and co-PIs) must have a full-time academic or faculty appointment (i.e., at the Assistant or Clinical Assistant Professor level at minimum) in Canada at the time the application is submitted.
Applicants may submit only one grant application (new or renewal) as either PI or co-PI. Applicants may hold up to two Heart and Stroke-funded GIAs as either PI or co-PI at any time.
Funds may only be used for research conducted in Canada.
Deadline
- Faculty deadline: consult your Faculty Research Facilitator
- Office of the Vice-President (Research, Innovation and International) (OVPRII) Approval Form and application deadline: August 21, 2025
- Submission to sponsor: August 28, 2025 by 3 p.m. (ET), registration closes at 12 p.m. (ET)
Special Requirements
All applicants are required to complete one of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s (CIHR) sex and gender training modules from the Institute of Gender and Health.
Submitting Your Application
- Submit an internal Carleton Approval Form through our central awards management database cuResearch.
- Submit an external application to Heart and Stroke. Application must be submitted online using CIRCUlink. Signature is required from the institutional signing authority
Contact Us
Katie Harriman: katie.harriman@carleton.ca
Potential applicants are also encouraged to discuss this funding opportunity with their Faculty Research Facilitator.