Project Grant: Fall 2025 and Spring 2026
Summary
The Project Grant program is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential for important advances in fundamental or applied health-related knowledge, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes by supporting projects of research proposed and conducted by individual researchers or groups of researchers in all areas of health. The best ideas may stem from new, incremental, innovative, and/or high-risk lines of inquiry or knowledge translation approaches.
Research Areas- Fall registration announced on July 3, 2025. Registration due August 13, 2025
The Project Grant program is open to applicants in all areas of health research that are aligned with the CIHR mandate: "To excel, according to internationally accepted standards of scientific excellence, in the creation of new knowledge and its translation into improved health for Canadians, more effective health services and products, and a strengthened Canadian health care system".
Objectives
The Project Grant program is expected to:
- Support a diverse portfolio of health-related research and knowledge translation proposals at any stage, from discovery to application, including commercialization;
- Promote relevant collaborations across disciplines, professions, and sectors; and
- Contribute to the creation and use of health-related knowledge.
Within the investment allocated to each Project Grant competition, there will be a funding envelope of: TBA
A portion of the competition budget will also be reserved to ensure that the proportion of grants funded is at least equal to the proportion of applications submitted by early career researchers (ECRs), female applicants, and for applicants submitting applications written in French. Should the full amount set aside not be required, all remaining funds will be returned to the Project grant competition to further increase the number of grants funded.
The number of grants funded will depend on the requested budgets and peer review recommendations.
Project Grant applicant funding levels are proportionate to the requirements of the research proposed, which is expected to vary by research field, research approach, and scope of proposal activities.
Funding is augmented by Priority Announcements (PAs) that award grants in specific research areas. Refer to the Project Grant: Fall 2023 Priority Announcements (Specific Research Areas).
For more information on the appropriate use of funds, refer to Allowable Costs.