Fall 2017 Project Grant results
The Project Grant: Fall 2017 competition has approved 512 research grants, plus an additional 33 bridge grants, for a total investment of approximately $372 millionFootnote 1.
The 512 grants approved were awarded to 501 individual nominated principal investigators (11 NPIs were awarded two grants). Of the 512 grants, 123 were awarded to new/early career investigators, and 22 were awarded for Indigenous health research projects.
The average grant size/duration is approximately $720,534 over 4.38 years.
| Province | Applications submitted (% of apps submitted) |
Applications funded (% of apps funded) |
Province-specific success rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | 362 (10.60%) | 71 (13.87%) | 19.61% |
| Alberta | 390 (11.42%) | 69 (13.48%) | 17.69% |
| Saskatchewan | 45 (1.32%) | 8 (1.56%) | 17.78% |
| Manitoba | 106 (3.10%) | 13 (2.54%) | 12.26% |
| Ontario | 1,328 (38.89%) | 194 (37.89%) | 14.61% |
| Québec | 1,050 (30.75%) | 141 (27.54%) | 13.43% |
| New Brunswick | 9 (0.26%) | 1 (0.20%) | 11.11% |
| Nova Scotia | 94 (2.75%) | 12 (2.34%) | 12.77% |
| Prince Edward Island | 3 (0.09%) | 0 | 0.00% |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 28 (0.82%) | 3 (0.59%) | 10.71% |
| Total | 3,415 | 512 | 14.99% |
| The success rate does not include bridge grants. | |||
View full list of Project Grant competition recipients
View full list of bridge grant recipients
Additional details
Breakdown of competition results
| Application breakdown | Applications submitted (% of apps submitted) |
Applications funded (% of apps funded) |
Category-specific success rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early career investigators (ECIs) | 821 (24.04%) | 123 (24.02%) | 14.98% |
| Mid-career investigators | 1,420 (41.58%) | 215 (41.99%) | 15.14% |
| Senior investigators | 1,174 (34.38%) | 174 (33.98%) | 14.82% |
| Integrated KT | 702 (20.56%) | 112 (21.88%) | 15.95% |
| Investigators who identify as female | 1,141 (33.41%) | 180 (35.16%) | 15.78% |
| Indigenous Health | 36 (1.05%) | 22 (4.30%) | 61.11% |
| Submitted in French | 50 (1.46%) | 4 (0.78%) | 8.00 % |
| Biomedical (Pillar 1) | 2,216 (64.89%) | 328 (64.06%) | 14.80% |
| Clinical (Pillar 2) | 629 (18.42%) | 92 (17.97%) | 14.63% |
| Health systems/services (Pillar 3) | 280 (8.20%) | 45 (8.79%) | 16.07% |
| Social/Cultural/Environmental/Population Health (Pillar 4) | 287 (8.40%) | 46 (8.98%) | 16.03% |
| The success rate does not include bridge grants. | |||
Large grants awarded
In the Project Grant competition, CIHR limited the number of large grants (defined as being in the top 2% of total grant value) awarded. Limiting the number of large grants helped ensure the support of a greater number of research projects overall.
A total of 9 large grants were funded using a budget envelope of $18.465M. One additional large grant, which ranked above the competition cut-off but fell below the funding line for the large grant budget envelope, was awarded a one-year bridge grant.
Early Career Investigators
The success rate for Early Career Investigators (ECIs) was equalized. This means that the proportion of ECIs funded equals the proportion of ECI applicants to the competition.
The total number of fully funded projects for applicants in this career stage went from 106 (before equalization) to 123 (after equalization).
Indigenous Health Research
All Indigenous Health Research projects went through an iterative peer review process. Based on the recommendation of the Indigenous Health Research peer review panel, 22 Indigenous health research projects were awarded funding, and one additional project was awarded a one-year bridge grant. CIHR is proud to support these projects as part of its commitment to invest 4.6% of its annual budget in Indigenous health research.
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