The Weston Family Foundation aims to catalyze and scale science-based approaches to significantly improve the health and well-being of Canadians. The Foundation takes a leadership role in tackling large problems that are under-addressed by supporting research that is particularly relevant to the health of Canadians and that empowers Canadians to improve their health and wellbeing. 

The Foundation, through the Weston Brain Institute, is pleased to announce the re-launch of the Rapid Response program with a focus on biomarkers. The Rapid Response 2026: Biomarkers program provides early-stage seed funding to support high-risk, high-reward translational research aimed at accelerating the validation to clinical implementation of biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases of aging (NDAs). 

Are you writing a dissertation full-time on a history of healthcare or healthcare topic in the humanities or social sciences? This is broadly defined as the study of past practices and epistemologies related to human health, healthcare, and disease. To be eligible, you must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident with ABD (All But Dissertation) status by the December of the application year, with preference given to those individuals in the final stages of completion (within 2 years of graduation). Applicants who have received a Doctoral Completion Award in the past are not eligible to apply for this award.

This grant is for Canadian citizens or permanent residents who are candidates embarking on full-time post-doctoral studies. It supports emerging scholars as they begin or complete projects featuring the study, analysis, and interpretation of past practices, philosophies, and/or epistemologies related to human health, healthcare, and/or disease or the education of health professionals. If this describes you, add to your experience by conducting research in Canada or abroad with our funding.

This funding supports small-budget proposals for research projects in the history of healthcare and allied disciplines, such as science and technology studies, sociology, anthropology, and classics. Your project must strive to advance the history of health, healthcare and disease, or the education of health professionals. We’re partial to projects that consider the Canadian context, and these may include requests for seed money to develop research initiatives. Your work should benefit the broader community of practitioners in the field. Successful applicants must produce one or more conference papers or publications/presentations within a year of this grant’s completion.

The specific objective of this funding opportunity is to:

• Tackle RD patient-need led challenges and enable scientists in different countries to build an effective collaboration on a common interdisciplinary research project based on complementarities and sharing of expertise, with the expected impact being future use of the results to benefit patients.

Brain disorders are a leading cause of disability and mortality globally, placing a great burden on people living with brain disorders, their families, social relations, professional and informal carers, as well as healthcare systems and national economies as a whole. Furthermore, the current geopolitical and environmental crises as well as increasing economic pressure in many countries worldwide have further aggravated brain health problems, in particular for the most vulnerable.

It is thus crucial to identify the factors that influence brain health throughout life, from prenatal stages to advanced age, as well as methods to monitor them, influence them, or both. Brain health is dynamic and shaped by exposures, behaviours and interventions at every stage of life. Advancing the scientific knowledge about these factors may enable positive changes in brain health trajectories and lead to opportunities for prevention and recovery along the life-course.

The European Partnership for Brain Health (EP BrainHealth) gathers 53 partners from 31 countries, with the common goal of improving brain health for all by developing scientific knowledge as a ground to promote brain health throughout lifetime, to prevent and to cure brain diseases as well as to improve wellbeing of people living with neurological and mental disorders in Europe and beyond.

In this frame, the EP BrainHealth is launching a call in the field of neurodegenerative disorders.

The EP BrainHealth invites applications that combine a holistic approach to brain health with in-depth biological understanding. The aim of the call is to facilitate multinational, collaborative and multidisciplinary research that addresses critical translational questions. Applications for this call, should address how biological, social and environmental factors affect the trajectory of neurodegenerative disorders across the lifespan.

For more information, please consult the EP Brain Health Call for Proposals.

The Forest Sector Investment and Innovation Program (FSIIP) provides funding for strategic investments in the forest sector that:

• improve productivity and innovation
• enhance competitiveness
• support new market access
• provide benefits to Ontario’s broader forest sector
• strengthen regional economies

Nature Manitoba offers the Native Habitat Grant to support projects that conserve, restore, or manage native habitats—or promote education on their value. Each year, one or more grants of up to $3,000 are awarded to initiatives that help preserve Manitoba’s natural ecosystems.