Arthritis Society Doctoral Award

Salary awards are offered to graduate students who are undertaking full-time research training in an area of clear relevance to arthritis and the Arthritis Society’s new Strategic Plan 2020-2025: Accelerating Impact - Research Strategy which aims to identify research avenues that focus on areas of highest priority to patients and achieve the highest levels of scientific excellence and rigour.

Important Deadlines: 

• Online Research Grants Portal: February 26
• Full Application Deadline: April 16, 2024, 5pm ET

Value

•  $35,000 per year up to 3 years. 

Please note the matching funds required for this program:

• The program provides 50% of the salary award to successful applicants. The other 50% of the award funding must come from one or more partners (government, industry, NFP or academic institution) or be allocated from an existing research agency grant.
• Successful candidates will receive up to $17,500 annually from the Arthritis Society for this award.

Eligibility

• Be engaged in full-time training in research in a Canadian graduate school program leading to a PhD;
• Be within the first three years of a PhD training program at the time of the application deadline; and
• Be working on a research project with clear relevance to the research priority areas in the Arthritis Society’s 2020-25 Research Strategy.

Criteria

• Quality of the candidate and research environment 
• Quality of the research project
• Relevance of the proposal to the Arthritis Society's 2020-2025 Research Strategy 

Application Instructions

• Students must obtain supervisor and department chair signatures before submitting a copy of their application to the Graduate Funding Facilitator who will then obtain the required signature from the Dean of School of Graduate Studies/VP Research.  
• Students Applications must be submitted through the Arthritis Society's online research grant portal 

Further instructions and information is located on the Arthritis Hub website.