Agency Resources (Toolkit for Grant Success)

2016-10-06

CIHR, Dempsey, Dale, Manager, Foundation Grant

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) held a series of Question & Answer webinars on the Foundation Grant: 2016 stage 1 application starting the end of September 2016. These PowerPoint from these webinars may be downloaded here.

2014-12-16

Coe, Helen - Project Coordinator, Grant Assist Program (Health Sciences), Simala-Grant, Joanne - Director, Health Funding Research Initiatives

The CIHR Foundation competition is using a new peer review process. The new process is characterized by: multi-stage review, use of structured review criteria, and remote review followed by a face-to-face meeting by an interdisciplinary review panel. This discussion presented an opportunity to...

2014-01-14

Simala-Grant, Joanne - Director, Health Funding Research Initiatives

What are the critical features of a compelling application to Stage 1 of the CIHR Foundation Scheme competition? The Foundation Scheme application is dramatically different from a CIHR Operating Grant application in content, length and style. Since the Foundation competition is new in 2014, and...

2016-09-23

Simala-Grant, Joanne - Director, Health Funding Research Initiatives

​This document ​outlines the criteria to be used by CIHR reviewers for Stage 1 Foundation applications​, and ​may be used when assessing Stage 1 applications for internal review.

2015-05-21

Baker, Glen - Associate Vice-President (Research); Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Stage 2 CIHR Foundation Reviewer, Simala-Grant, Joanne - Director, Health Research Funding Initiatives, Lehner, Richard - Professor, Department of Cell Biology; Stage 1 CIHR Foundation Reviewer

Stage 1 of the September 2015 CIHR Foundation competition was discussed. We shared what was learned from the first competition in September 2014 and heard from both a September 2014 Stage 1 reviewer and a Stage 2 reviewer.

2016-09-30

Michelakis, Evangelos, Melançon, Paul, Simala-Grant, Joanne - Director, Health Funding Research Initiatives

We will have the opportunity to hear Dr. Paul Melançon (CIHR Stage 1 Foundation Reviewer) and Dr. Evangelos Michelakis (CIHR Foundation awardee & reviewer) share their insights into the CIHR Stage 1 Foundation application and review process.

2015-05-21

Coe, Helen - Project Coordinator, Grant Assist Program (Health Sciences)

Outlined in this document is a summary of the most common strengths listed in Stage 1 Foundation 2014 Reviews for University of Alberta applicants. Analysis was performed on 159 reviews from 32 applications. Twelve of the applications were approved to apply to Stage 2 and 20 applications were not...

2015-05-21

Coe, Helen - Project Coordinator, Grant Assist Program (Health Sciences)

Outlined in this document is a summary of the most common weaknesses listed in Stage 1 Foundation 2014 Reviews for University of Alberta applicants. Analysis was performed on 159 reviews from 32 applications. Twelve of the applications were approved to apply to Stage 2, and 20 applications were...

2014-12-10

CIHR, Coe, Helen - Project Coordinator, Grant Assist Program (Health Sciences), Simala-Grant, Joanne - Director, Health Research Funding Initatives

Please find the anonymous national and University of Alberta Foundation 2014 Stage 1 results. National and University of Alberta results are stratified by career stage and University of Alberta results are also presented stratified by theme and title.

2015-08-31

Coe, Helen - Project Coordinator, Grant Assist Program (Health Sciences)

This table is a line-by-line summary of the changes made on August 20, 2015 to the Interpretation Guidelines for the Foundation Scheme Adjudication Criteria.