Funding Road Map

Name: Canadian Institutes of Health Research - Clinician Scientist Training Award
Abbreviation: CIHR
Type: Capacity Development
General Deadline: Summer
Research Focus: Non-specific

Name of Funding Organization: Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

Name of Grant/Scholarship/Program (if applicable):
Clinician-Scientist Training Award

Cross-Listed with Any Other Organization?
No

Type of Funding:
Stipends for up to six years, to support the continuation of clinical training (Phase 1), or as a contribution toward a clinician’s salary (Phase 2)

Description:
“The Clinician Scientist Award is offered to highly qualified and motivated clinicians who have been identified by a Canadian medical or dental school as having strong potential to become clinician-scientists.”

Eligibility:

  • By the time you apply, you must hold a professional degree from a health-related discipline (medicine or dentistry), as well as have completed (at least) two years of post graduate clinical training
  • Please also see Eligibility Requirements for CIHR Grants and Awards, and General Guidelines for Training Programs (links below).

Specific focus on global health research?
No, but for this first phase of the program, you are eligible to apply to this program in order to train at an international institution.

Application Process:
First of all, please take a look at the Application Packages webpage (under Links); this page will provide you with detailed information about the application procedure you must follow.
Please note that this program now requires applications to be submitted using CIHR Web Forms.

Deadline:
For the 2007 competition, the registration date was August 22nd (Industry-Partnered awards only). This could change in the future.

Contact Information:
Description of Clinician Scientist Program:
www.researchnet-recherchenet.ca/rnr16/viewOpportunityDetails.do?prog=217&&view=currentOpps&org=CIHR&type=AND&resultCount=25&sort=program&all=1&masterList=true

Postal Address:
RE: “Training Support – Clinician-Scientists”
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Room 97, 160 Elgin Street
Address locator: 4809A
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0W9

Links:

 

Source of information: The Canadian Institutes of Health Research website and email correspondence.

 

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