Grants-in-Aid
The Grant-in-Aid program funds innovative research across all health research themes to advance prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery in heart disease and stroke in Canada.
Funder: Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (https://www.heartandstroke.ca)
Due Dates (Anticipated): August 2026: Grant-in-Aid full application submission deadline (16:00 EDT) (projected)
Funding Amounts: Up to $400,000 CAD for 4 years; $300,000 (3 yrs); $200,000 (2 yrs); $100,000 (1 yr). No annual cap for multi-year requests.
Summary: Supports innovative, investigator-initiated research in heart disease and stroke across all health research themes to improve cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health in Canada.
Key Information: Forecasted date; eligibility requires full-time Canadian faculty or specific adjunct status with protected research time.
Description
The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada’s Grant-in-Aid (GIA) program provides operating funds to support significant, novel, and impactful research in the fields of heart disease and stroke. This program is designed to foster investigator-initiated research discovery and innovation across all four Canadian health research themes: basic biomedical, clinical, health services/systems, and social, cultural, environmental, and population health. The program aims to generate new knowledge that will advance prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health in Canada.
