Project Grant: Spring 2019 Competition Results
The Project Grant: Spring 2019 competition has approved 382 research grants, plus an additional 21 bridge grants, for a total investment of approximately $275M.Footnote 1
In addition, 15 priority announcement bridge grants were funded for a total amount of $1,496,333. Of these, five were granted as top-up awards for a total amount of $498,000.
The 382 grants approved were awarded to 373 individual nominated principal investigators (9 NPIs were awarded two grants). Of the 382 grants, 85 were awarded to early career researchers and 14 were awarded for Indigenous health research projects.
The average grant size/duration is approximately $714,240 over 4.33 years.
Province | Number of applications submitted | % of applications submitted | Number of applications funded | % of applications funded | Province-specific success rate |
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British Columbia | 248 | 10.1% | 44 | 11.5% | 17.7% |
Alberta | 260 | 10.6% | 45 | 11.8% | 17.3% |
Saskatchewan | 34 | 1.4% | 3 | 0.8% | 8.8% |
Manitoba | 60 | 2.5% | 7 | 1.8% | 11.7% |
Ontario | 1,031 | 42.2% | 150 | 39.3% | 14.5% |
Québec | 723 | 29.6% | 121 | 31.7% | 16.7% |
New Brunswick | 9 | 0.4% | 1 | 0.3% | 11.1% |
Nova Scotia | 61 | 2.5% | 9 | 2.4% | 14.8% |
Prince Edward Island | 0 | - | - | - | - |
Newfoundland and Labrador | 19 | 0.8% | 2 | 0.5% | 10.5% |
Total | 2,445 | 382 | |||
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: The applications that were approved conditionally will not appear in the detailed funding decisions database until the conditions have been resolved.
Additional details
Application breakdown | Number of applications submitted | % of applications submitted | Number of applications funded | % of applications funded | Category-specific success rate |
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Early career researchers (ECRs) | 541 | 22.1% | 85 | 22.3% | 15.7% |
Mid-career investigators | 1,027 | 42% | 160 | 41.9% | 15.6% |
Senior investigators | 875 | 35.8% | 137 | 35.9% | 15.7% |
Knowledge Users | 2 | 0.1% | 0 | 0% | - |
Integrated KT | 482 | 19.7% | 78 | 20.4% | 16.2% |
Investigators who identify as female | 871 | 35.6% | 146 | 38.2% | 16.8% |
Indigenous Health | 26 | 1.1% | 14 | 3.7% | 53.8% |
Submitted in French | 34 | 1.4% | 4 | 1% | 11.8% |
Biomedical (Pillar 1) | 1,456 | 59.6% | 225 | 58.9% | 15.5% |
Clinical (Pillar 2) | 508 | 20.8% | 76 | 19.9% | 15% |
Health systems/services (Pillar 3) | 231 | 9.4% | 36 | 9.4% | 15.6% |
Social/Cultural/Environmental/Population Health (Pillar 4) | 248 | 10.1% | 45 | 11.8% | 18.1% |
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 5 large grants were funded using a budget envelope of $13.75M. Two additional large grants were 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 56 (before equalization) to 85 (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, 14 Indigenous health research projects were awarded funding and 7 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: Spring 2019 peer review participants will be available shortly.
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