Funder’s Website

The funder’s website can be found HERE.

The specific Competition can be found HERE.

Funding Value and Duration

$60,000 per year for up to three (3) years.

Overview

The New Investigator (NI) program is a salary award to support new investigators who have demonstrated excellence in their doctoral and post- doctoral 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.

Eligibility Criteria

Equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in research environments enhances excellence, innovation and creativity. Heart & Stroke is committed to excellence through equity and encourages applicants from diverse and equity deserving groups to apply to our funding opportunities.

General –New Investigator

  1. A New Investigator may not be in receipt of another major Personnel award from another national funding agency at the same time as holding a Personnel Award from Heart & Stroke. Likewise, an awardee may not concurrently hold a Canada Research Chair and a Heart & Stroke New Investigator, Alberta New Investigator, or an Ontario Clinician Scientist award. In addition, an awardee may not hold two Heart & Stroke Personnel Awards (national and provincial) concurrently. However, an awardee may accept supplemental funding; no greater than 50% of the value of the Heart & Stroke award if it is from a local or provincial funding source.
  2. At the time of submission, the applicant must have a full-time appointment at the Assistant
    Professor level or above in Canada;
  3. At the time of submission, and for the duration of the award, award recipients are ineligible if they hold or have already held funding, directly or indirectly, from the tobacco industry.
  4. The applicant should clearly demonstrate the potential to become an independent investigator.
  5. At the time of submission, no more than five (5) years may have passed since the date of the first faculty appointment at the Assistant or Clinical Assistant Professor level. This would include Adjunct positions in a research track for which the applicant is eligible to write a Grant-in-Aid as a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator. The date of first faculty appointment will be based on the date listed in the Common CV (i.e., under Employment).
  6. Applications for this award must be supported by the university or institution at which the applicant will conduct the proposed research program. The university or institution is expected to guarantee the applicant appropriate academic rank and to provide adequate space and facilities for the investigator’s research, commensurate with the status of the individual’s experience and level of support from Heart & Stroke.
  7. The applicant must have an MD, PhD, or equivalent degree.
  8. The Dean and Department Head (or institutional equivalents) must guarantee at least 75% of the applicant’s time will be allocated to the proposed research program.
  9. The applicant must hold an operating grant in support of the proposed research program at the time of this award; such grant(s) may be from Heart & Stroke and/or other granting agencies. The research grant support has the following additional requirements:
    1. For each year of the three (3) years of the award, the recipient must be a Principal or CoPrincipal Investigator on a peer-reviewed grant originating from a national or provincial funding agency, irrespective of the amount of the grant.
    2. The recipient must have at least $30,000 per year of research funding for which the recipient is Principal or Co-Principal Investigator.
    3. Peer reviewed/Non-Peer reviewed funding
      • For years one (1) and two (2) of the award, research funding may originate from peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed sources.
      • For year three (3) of the award, research funding must originate from peer-reviewed sources.

Internal Contacts

Potential applicants are encouraged to discuss this funding opportunity with their Faculty Research Facilitator.

Deadlines

Faculty Deadline Consult your Faculty Research Facilitator.
OVPRI Deadline (Approval Form and Application) August 31, 2023
Submission to Sponsor September 7, 2023 4:00PM EST

Submitting Your Application

  • Step 1) Submit an internal Carleton Approval Form
    Submit an internal Approval Form through our central awards management database CUResearch:
    https://ovpri.research.carleton.ca/Romeo.Researcher/Administrator/Default.aspx
    For a user’s guide on submitting an Approval Form, click HERE.
  • Step 2) Submit an external application to the granting agency
    Submit an external application to the corresponding grant or award agency. To navigate to the funder’s website, click HERE