Project Grant: Fall 2018 results

371 grants funded, $275M total investment, 18 bridge grants

The Project Grant: Fall 2018 competition has approved 371 research grants, plus an additional 18 bridge grants, for a total investment of approximately $275M.Footnote 1

In addition, 14 priority announcement bridge grants were funded for a total amount of $1,400,000.

The 371 grants approved were awarded to 368 individual nominated principal investigators (3 NPIs were awarded two grants). Of the 371 grants, 82 were awarded to early career researchers and 11 were awarded for Indigenous health research projects.

The average grant size/duration is approximately $736K over 4.43 years.

Province Number of applications submitted % of applications submitted Number of applications funded % of applications funded Province-specific
success rate
British Columbia 278 11.2% 36 9.7% 12.9%
Alberta 260 10.5% 36 9.7% 13.8%
Saskatchewan 42 1.7% 5 1.3% 11.9%
Manitoba 80 3.2% 15 4.0% 18.8%
Ontario 1,015 40.9% 154 41.5% 15.2%
Québec 730 29.4% 112 30.2% 15.3%
New Brunswick 8 0.3% 0 0%  
Nova Scotia 46 1.9% 6 1.6% 13.0%
Prince Edward Island 2 0.1% 1 0.3% 50.0%
Newfoundland and Labrador 18 0.7% 6 1.6% 33.0%
Unknown (not specified) 5 0.2% 0 0%  
Total 2,484   371    
The success rate does not include bridge grants.

Full list of Project Grant recipients

Full list of competition bridge grant recipients

Full list of Institute Priority Announcement bridge grant recipients

Note: As some of the applications have been approved conditionally, these specific applications will not appear in the detailed funding decisions database until the conditions have been resolved.

Additional details

Breakdown of competition results

Application breakdown Number of applications submitted % of applications submitted Number of applications funded % of applications funded Category-specific
success rate
Early career researchers (ECRs) 546 22.0% 82 22.1% 15.0%
Mid-career investigators 1,054 42.4% 158 42.6% 15.0%
Senior investigators 878 35.3% 131 35.3% 14.9%
Knowledge Users 6 0.2% 0 0%  
Integrated KT 464 18.7% 65 17.5% 14.0%
Investigators who identify as female 869 34.6% 131 35.3% 15.3%
Indigenous Health 23 0.9% 11 3.0% 47.8%
Submitted in French 26 1.0% 4 1.1% 15.4%
Biomedical (Pillar 1) 1,586 63.8% 240 64.7% 15.1%
Clinical (Pillar 2) 481 19.4% 66 17.8% 13.7%
Health systems/services (Pillar 3) 205 8.3% 31 8.4% 15.1%
Social/Cultural/Environmental/Population Health (Pillar 4) 210 8.5% 34 9.2% 16.2%
The success rate does not include bridge grants.

Large grants awarded

Large grants are defined as being in the top 2% of total grant value within a competition.

A total of 4 large grants were funded using a budget envelope of $13.75M. One (1) additional large grant was awarded a one-year bridge grant.

Early Career Researchers

The success rate for early career researchers (ECRs) was equalized. This means that the proportion of ECRs funded equals the proportion of ECR applicants to the competition. This equalization is for the competition as a whole, not by committee.

The total number of fully funded projects for applicants in this career stage went from 75 (before equalization) to 82 (after equalization).

Indigenous Health Research

All applications reviewed by the Indigenous Health Research committee went through an iterative peer review process.

Based on the recommendation of the review committee, 11 Indigenous health research projects were awarded funding and 10 additional projects were 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.

Peer Review

Details about the Project Grant: Fall 2018 peer review participants are available separately.

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