New Investigator Awards

Sponsor’s Website

Visit the Heart and Stroke Foundation website for more information on the New Investigator awards.

Internal Contact

Katie Harriman: katie.harriman@carleton.ca

Deadlines

Overview

The New Investigator 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.

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).

Eligibility

At the time of submission, no more than five years may have passed since the date of the applicant’s 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 per 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 major personnel award from a national funding agency (e.g. Canada Research Chair).

Indirect costs are ineligible.

Special Requirements

• An institutional statement completed by the dean and department head (or institutional equivalent) 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) sex and gender in health research training modules.

Submitting Your Application

1. Submit an internal Approval Form through our central awards management database cuResearch. Consult the user’s manual for guidance.
2. Submit an external application to the Heart and Stroke Foundation through their online portal. Signature is required from the institutional signing authority.