Funder’s Website
The funder’s website can be found HERE.
Funding Value and Duration
$30,000 for 1 year
Overview
This prestigious award is dedicated to supporting innovative early-career researchers across Canada who are advancing cutting-edge discoveries in health and biomedical sciences.
The Discovery Award offers funding to early-career investigators to enable their independent research programs and foster breakthroughs that have the potential to impact human health. Recipients will receive up to $30,000 to support their projects, with a focus on innovation, feasibility, and potential for meaningful impact.
Eligibility Criteria
To apply for the Banting Discovery Award, you must:
● Be a biomedical health researcher.
● Be within your first three years of your first academic appointment at a Canadian university or research institute.
● Have received less than $250,000 in total start-up funding from your academic institution.
● Have received less than $50,000 per year from external sources (i.e., outside of your institution).
Note:
● Support from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) does not count towards any funding limits when evaluating your application.
● If you have been awarded more than $50,000 per annum in external research funding, you may still request up to $30,000, provided that the total sum of the operating funds received during the funding year, including from the Banting Discovery Foundation, will not exceed $80,000.
Institutional Quota
One application from the same department/centre
How to Apply
Mandatory Expressions of Interest (EOI) via online form are due by October 7, 2024
Eligible applicants will be contacted by the OVPRI contact for this funding opportunity, Katie Harriman, and their Faculty Research Facilitator to develop an external Notice of Intent to the Banting Research Foundation.
Internal Process
Expressions of interest (EOI) are due about one month prior to the external Notice of Intent (November 1, 2024) via an online form on the CORIS website. As only one application can be submitted per academic department/unit, CORIS will consult with the Chair/Director in the event more than one EOI is received for their department.
Applicants should identify in the EOI if they wish to be considered for a thematic Discovery Award as additional eligibility criteria may apply.
Thematic Discovery Awards
The Banting Research Foundation Discovery Award includes additional thematic awards that target specific areas of research. These thematic awards include:
1. Banting–Ontario Brain Institute Discovery Awards: Focuses on transformative brain science and AI research, particularly projects advancing treatments for brain disorders through biomarkers, patient engagement, and industry partnerships.
2. Banting–Canerector Discovery Awards: Dedicated to research on Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) and hypermobility spectrum disorders (HSD), with a focus on connective tissue defects and related comorbidities.
3. Banting–CANSSI Discovery Awards in Biostatistics: Supports early-career investigators in biostatistics who collaborate with health scientists, addressing health equity and patient outcomes through innovative methodologies.
4. Banting–Dystonia Medical Research Foundation Canada Award: Supports research aimed at understanding dystonia, developing models, and identifying new therapeutic targets.
For more information, visit the Banting Research Foundation website.
Internal Contacts
Potential applicants are encouraged to discuss this funding opportunity with their Faculty Research Facilitator.
VPRI Resource Contact: Katie Harriman
Deadlines
| Faculty Deadline | Consult your Faculty Research Facilitator. |
| Mandatory Expressions of Interest | October 7, 2024 |
| Notice of Intent (External) | November 1, 2024 |
| Invitations to Submit Full Application | November 30, 2024 |
| OVPRI Deadline (Approval Form and Application) | January 13, 2025 |
| Submission to Sponsor | January 20, 2025 |
Note: Applications must include a departmental letter of support and the application form must be signed by the applicant, Chair, and institutional signatory.
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