Brain Canada and Diabetes Canada Launch Mental Health Funding Pool

Brain Canada and Diabetes Canada are pleased to announce a new partnership to support research into the intersection of diabetes and mental health. Together, Brain Canada and Diabetes Canada will award and co-fund two grants of $150,000 per year over three years through the 2025 End Diabetes Awards. 

Brain Canada’s vision is to support bold science for better brain health. Brain Canada delivers on this vision by accelerating, amplifying, and funding brain research across the country. Diabetes Canada’s vision is a world free of the effects of diabetes. Diabetes Canada supports research to prevent the onset and consequences of diabetes and its complications, help those affected by diabetes to live healthy lives, and work to end diabetes.  

About the funding opportunity: 

Research project applications focused at the intersection of diabetes and mental health, across all four pillars of health research (as defined by CIHR) are of interest for this funding partnership. For example, research into shared biological mechanisms or signaling pathways of diabetes and mental health conditions, mental health burden of living with diabetes, or prevention and/or interventions that reduce risk of both conditions.

 
Funding for these grants is made possible by Diabetes Canada, and the Canada Brain Research Fund, an innovative arrangement between the Government of Canada, through Health Canada, and Brain Canada.  

Application deadline: July 11, 2025, 8:00pm EDT.

Applications should be submitted through ProposalCentral.

More information on how to apply can be found here: https://braincanada.ca/funding-opportunities/