2025-2026 Research Grant

How to Apply: 

The Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario (POGO) is accepting applications for its 2025-2026 Research Grant. This opportunity supports research that advances the 2024-2029 Childhood Cancer Care Plan and makes a meaningful difference for children, youth, survivors, and families in Ontario.

 

Funding available: Up to $75,000 per project

 

Project categories:

  • Bridging funds for projects with preliminary work (ideally pilot data) already completed
  • New projects for initiatives not yet underway 

The competition is open to researchers and healthcare professionals, including allied healthcare professionals. Primary consideration goes to Ontario citizens and landed immigrants. 

 

»Visit the POGO website for more eligibility requirements, guidelines and to apply 

 

Deadline: December 15, 2025, 5:00 p.m. EST

External Deadline: 
Monday, December 15, 2025
Funding Source: 
External
Funding Level: 
Research

Increasing Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the Canadian Space Sector

How to Apply: 

Canada can do more to recognize and remedy these gaps so that our national space workforce reflects the wealth of Canada's cultural diversity. With this Announcement of Opportunity (AO), Increasing equity, diversity and inclusion in the Canadian space sector, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) seeks to promote equity and diversity in the next generation of space professionals in Canada and make the Canadian space workforce more inclusive by providing space-related training opportunities for underrepresented populations.

This AO aims to offer under-represented groups an opportunity to increase their level of applied knowledge in space science and technology and promote their professional development in order to increase equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in Canada's space workforce.

External Deadline: 
Friday, February 6, 2026
Funding Source: 
External
Funding Level: 
Research

Women and Diversity Health Communication Strategy

How to Apply: 

Researchers are invited to apply for a new grant funding opportunity sponsored by Canadian Forces Health Services (CFHS) Women and Diversity Health program (WDH) to conduct a study exploring approaches to optimize knowledge translation on equity-related health care policies and programs within the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). This project includes the development of a recommended communication and education strategy, approach, or framework for CFHS to utilize as needed.

External Deadline: 
Friday, October 31, 2025
Funding Source: 
External
Funding Level: 
Research

Fellowships

How to Apply: 

The PCC Fellowship Program supports qualified scientists interested in the field of anti-doping, committed to meaningful research, and demonstrating potential for long-term contribution to the field of anti-doping scien​ce. Fellows selected by the PCC participate in a two-year program. Fellows gain practical knowledge from a U.S.-based, WADA-accredited laboratory and conduct research supporting the anti-doping field.

External Deadline: 
Sunday, February 1, 2026
Funding Source: 
External
Funding Level: 
Research

Tanaka Fund Program

How to Apply: 

The Tanaka Fund was established in 1974 as the result of an exchange of gifts between the governments of Canada and Japan. Canada offered $1,000,000 to Japan to promote Canadian studies in Japanese universities, while Japan provided 300 million yen for the enhancement of Japanese studies in Canadian universities. The funds were used to establish the “Japan Foundation Trust Fund for the Promotion of Japanese Studies in Canadian Universities”.

Canadian citizens or permanent residents who are master’s or doctoral level students enrolled at a Canadian university and are conducting research related to Japan with methods in humanities and social sciences. The research must be towards a master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation. PhD candidates are not eligible.

External Deadline: 
Friday, January 30, 2026
Funding Source: 
External
Funding Level: 
Doctoral
Masters
Research

Team Grant: The Canadian Cannabis and Brain Health Consortium

How to Apply: 

The specific objectives are to create a collaborative Canadian Cannabis and Brain Health Consortium to:

  • Undertake data collection, harmonization, and sharing to create a Canadian Cannabis and Brain Health multi-site cohort that will develop a broader understanding concerning brain health effects of cannabis use, which may ultimately lead to guidance for therapeutic and recreational use, as well as for cannabis use disorder;
  • Generate and share new knowledge concerning prevalence, patterns, and contributing factors of cannabis use to answer cannabis-related health research questions specific to one of the research priority areas stated above and outlined in the Legislative Review of the Cannabis Act;
  • Address pressing issues on cannabis use and brain health from a lifespan perspective and assess the impacts of cannabis legalization/commercialization on health and public health;
  • Facilitate data access and enhance knowledge sharing through the CCBHC to address key data gaps to inform policy development at the federal, provincial, territorial and local levels.
External Deadline: 
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Funding Source: 
External
Funding Level: 
Research

2025-26 Clinical Translation CATALYST Funding Opportunity

How to Apply: 

OICR is currently inviting applications for a new CATALYST funding stream to support research that leverages existing biospecimens and clinical data to validate biomarkers, molecular signatures, immune correlates or other insights that can improve cancer detection, risk stratification or treatment stratification. The vision of the CATALYST funding stream is to honour patient contributions by accelerating discoveries from available clinical samples. No new sample collection is permitted under this funding opportunity.

External Deadline: 
Thursday, November 6, 2025
Funding Source: 
External
Funding Level: 
Research

Early Researcher Awards

How to Apply: 
The Early Researcher Awards program gives funding to new researchers working at publicly funded Ontario research institutions to build a research team.
 
Under this program, an ERA award to a leading researcher is worth a maximum of $100,000 and must be matched by an additional $50,000. For this competition, Lakehead University will provide the required matching contribution of $50,000 ($10,000 per year over 5 years) for up to two applications.  If more than two qualified applications are received an internal review committee will be tasked with ranking the applicants to determine which application(s) will be submitted to the ERA program
 
Lakehead University invites early career researchers who meet the ERA program criteria, to apply to the 2025 internal ERA competition.  You are eligible to apply for this award if you:
  • are a full-time, faculty or principal investigator (PI) based at an eligible institution in Ontario (adjunct positions do not qualify)
  • have started your independent academic research career on or after January 1, 2020; and
  • have completed your first Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree, Medical Doctor or terminal degree on or after January 1, 2015 (anywhere world-wide)
  • have not already held an Early Researcher Award, and 
  • are not a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair. 
For more information, including internal deadlines, please click here.
External Deadline: 
Thursday, November 27, 2025
Funding Source: 
External
Funding Level: 
Research

Ministry of Colleges, Universities, Research Excellence and Security

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