New Investigator Awards
The New Investigator (NI) program is a salary award to support new investigators who have demonstrated excellence in their doctoral and postdoctoral training and wish to establish their own independent research career. Salary awards provide an added incentive for researchers to continue or begin their program of cardiovascular or cerebrovascular research within Canada.
Visit the Heart and Stroke Foundation website for more information on the New Investigator awards.
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
The stipend is a maximum of $240,000 ($80,000 per year, including employer’s share of benefits, for up to three years).
Indirect costs are ineligible.
Eligibility
At the time of submission, no more than five years may have passed since the date of the first faculty appointment at the assistant or clinical assistant professor level. This includes adjunct positions in a research track for which the applicant is eligible to write a Grant-in-Aid as a Principal Investigator (PI) or co-PI. The date of first faculty appointment will be based on the date listed in the BioSketch.
The applicant must hold an operating grant (at least $30,000/year) in support of the proposed research program at the time of this award. Such grant(s) may be from Heart and Stroke and/or other granting agencies.
The applicant cannot be in receipt of another personal award from a national funding agency.
External Deadline
September 4, 2025 by 3:00 p.m. (ET), registration closes at 1 p.m. (ET)
Special Requirements
- An institutional statement completed by the dean and department head (or institutional equivalents) is required confirming that the applicant will have 75% of their time allocated to the proposed research program.
- Applicants are required to identify at minimum one mentor and describe, in a co-signed one-page letter, the mentorship approach for the first year of the award and provide a three-year mentorship plan.
- Three letters of recommendation must be emailed separately to Heart and Stroke directly from the referees.
- All applicants are required to complete the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s (CIHR) gender and health online training modules.
Submitting Your Application
- Submit an internal Carleton Approval Form through our central awards management database cuResearch.
- Submit an external application to Heart and Stroke by following their submission guidelines.
Contact Us
Katie Harriman: katie.harriman@carleton.ca