The Canadian Cancer Society’s Research Training Awards program aims to support growth and innovation in the next generation of diverse cancer researchers across Canada at the Master’s, Doctoral and Postdoctoral levels. This program seeks to build inclusive capacity in cancer research, while fostering interdisciplinary learning, knowledge translation, mentorship and patient and community engagement opportunities. By supporting a diverse pool of talented researchers, the program will contribute to re-shaping cancer research to be more equitable, inclusive and impactful.  

To address structural and systemic barriers to inclusion, and increase diverse representation in our cancer research ecosystem, CCS and its partners welcome applications from all eligible trainees and strongly encourage Black and Indigenous trainees to apply.

The Canadian Cancer Society’s Research Training Awards program aims to support growth and innovation in the next generation of diverse cancer researchers across Canada at the Master’s, Doctoral and Postdoctoral levels. This program seeks to build inclusive capacity in cancer research, while fostering interdisciplinary learning, knowledge translation, mentorship and patient and community engagement opportunities. By supporting a diverse pool of talented researchers, the program will contribute to re-shaping cancer research to be more equitable, inclusive and impactful.  

To address structural and systemic barriers to inclusion, and increase diverse representation in our cancer research ecosystem, CCS and its partners welcome applications from all eligible trainees and strongly encourage Black and Indigenous trainees to apply.

The Discovery Horizons program provides support for interdisciplinary research activities that advance at least two intertwined research disciplines with at least one of them outside the natural sciences and engineering (NSE). The program supports innovative research that bridges disciplines, fosters collaboration across academic fields and provides training opportunities for highly qualified personnel (HQP).

The Discovery Grants program supports the development and sustainability of a diverse, high-quality research base in the natural sciences and engineering (NSE) at Canadian universities, fosters research excellence and strengthens the research training environment.

Connection Grants are expected to respond to the objectives of the Research Partnerships program.

These grants support events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. These events and activities represent opportunities to exchange knowledge and engage with participants on research issues they value. Events and outreach activities funded by a Connection Grant can often serve as a first step toward more comprehensive and longer-term projects.

Connection Grants support workshops, colloquiums, conferences, forums, summer institutes, documentaries or other events or outreach activities that facilitate:

• disciplinary and/or interdisciplinary exchanges in the social sciences and humanities;
• scholarly exchanges between those working in the social sciences and humanities and those working in other research fields;
• intersectoral exchanges between academic researchers in the social sciences and humanities and researchers and practitioners from the public, private and/or not-for-profit sectors; and/or
• international research collaboration and scholarly exchanges with researchers, students and non-academic partners from other countries.

The goal of the Exploration stream is to inspire high-risk, high-reward and interdisciplinary research.

Exploration grants support research that pushes boundaries into exciting new areas. Researchers are encouraged to think “outside of the box” and undertake research that defies current paradigms; brings disciplines together in unexpected ways and from bold, innovative perspectives; and has the potential to be disruptive or deliver game-changing impacts.

Exploration stream grants support projects that:

• bring disciplines together beyond traditional disciplinary or common interdisciplinary approaches;
• propose to explore something new, which might fail; and
• have the potential for significant impact.

Exploration grants support research with a range of impacts—economic, scientific, artistic, cultural, social, technological, environmental or health-related. This list is not exhaustive; other types of impacts are also recognized. Diversity of perspectives is important, and the fund encourages research proposals led from any discipline, from those in the social sciences and humanities, to health, the natural sciences and engineering.

OICR Clinical Translation (CT) advances cancer research toward meaningful clinical impact. It supports preclinical and early clinical studies that develop and validate new approaches to detect, treat and monitor cancer at its earliest and most actionable stages. Through close partnership with patients, clinicians and researchers, CT helps ensure that clinically relevant, high-potential innovations are positioned for patient and health care impact.

OICR is inviting applications for CT’s Clinical Acceleration Team Award (CATA) funding stream to support prospective clinical trials in which Molecular (Minimal) Residual Disease (MRD) assessment is a prespecified and integral component of the study design, and in which MRD results are explicitly linked to defined clinical decision points, management strategies or treatment adaptations. The intent of this funding opportunity is to support well-designed, decision-relevant studies that meaningfully advance MRD as a clinically actionable biomarker and contribute to the cumulative evidence required for future definitive evaluation and broader clinical adoption.

Brain Canada, in partnership with Women’s Brain Health Initiative (WBHI) and with support from the Government of Canada, is launching the Accelerator Grants: Migraine Research program, a new initiative explicitly designed to catalyze research in migraine. 

Migraine affects 12-14% of the global population, making it one of the most common neurological conditions worldwide and a leading cause of years lived with disability. In Canada, approximately 2.7 million people are diagnosed with migraine, while many more experience symptoms that remain undiagnosed. The condition disproportionately affects women, who are up to three times more likely to experience migraine than men. 

The Accelerator Grants: Migraine Research program aims to support bold, innovative research that has the potential to drive new insights and improve prevention, diagnosis, and treatment strategies for migraine. Projects must consider the influence of sex- and gender-related factors in the design, analysis, and evaluation of the research given the disproportionate impact of migraine on women. It is anticipated that this funding will catalyze new insights and support the generation of preliminary data, tools, or interventions that can inform and enable new directions in the field. 

Click here to view the Request for Applications  
 

Deadline for receipt of Registration Forms: June 18, 2026, at 17:00 ET 

Deadline for receipt of Full Applications: September 3, 2026, at 17:00 ET 

In recognition of the growing importance of good governance to all Canadian institutions, the Canadian Foundation for Governance Research is offering annual Bertram Scholarships of up to $20,000 to PhD students registered at Canadian universities. The scholarship will support the work of students who are conducting research on organizational governance as part of their doctoral research project.

To qualify for the scholarship, the research project should focus on a topic related to organizational governance, including, for example:

• The importance of effective boards in enabling good decision-making and improving the functioning of Canadian institutions
• Governance issues of interest to Canadian boards of public, private, government-agency and not-for-profit organizations
• The role of corporate governance in enabling positive societal impacts
• Governance best practices through the Canadian perspective

For full details on the Bertram Scholarship, visit the CFGR website. The deadline for applications is June 5, 2026.

Please note that there have been changes to the criteria.