Sponsor

Heart & Stroke Foundation

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Please see the Postdoctoral Fellowship Award [1] for full application details as well as some award conditions.

Description

Heart & Stroke’s personnel award programs provide salary support to Canada’s top researchers across the career continuum. This support helps ensure the training, retention and success of Canada’s cardiovascular and cerebrovascular researchers. Heart & Stroke is pleased to launch the Postdoctoral Personnel Awards for the 2025/26 funding year. The objective of the competition is to increase the number of researchers and clinician-scientists in Canadian universities and research institutions devoted specifically to cardiovascular and/or cerebrovascular health. The stipends awarded will enable Postdoctoral Fellows to pursue their program of research and engage with mentors as part of their training. 

Eligibility

Applicants must meet the following criteria: 

1. The applicant’s institution must provide a signature committing to contribute at least the same monetary amount per year as Heart & Stroke’s contribution towards the postdoctoral stipend should the applicant be successful. The signature must be from an individual with signing authority for the institution. The applicant must upload the Signatures Page to CIRCUlink as part of the submission package (see C.7  How to Apply).
2. As of the application deadline date, applicants must be Canadian citizens, permanent residents of Canada or Protected Persons under subsection 95(2) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Canada) as of the application deadline date.
3. Applicants must hold or be completing either (i) a PhD or (ii) a regulated health professional degree.
4. At the time of submission, applicants must either (i) have a position as a full-time Postdoctoral Fellow or Clinical Fellow at an eligible Canadian institution; or (ii) have applied for the position of full-time Postdoctoral Fellow or Clinical Fellow at an eligible Canadian institution with a start date of no later than December 31, 2025. 
5. Clinical Fellows must be in a research stream.
6. Applicants may not hold, or be on leave from, an independent research position.
7. Applicants must have an identified research supervisor based at an eligible Canadian institution where the research will be undertaken.
8. Applicants must submit, from the institution, a written declaration of being enrolled as a full-time Postdoctoral Fellow or Clinical Fellow prior to funds being released.
9. At the time of submission, and for the duration of the award, award recipients are ineligible if they hold or have already held funding, directly or indirectly, from the tobacco industry.
10. Applicants cannot currently hold, or have previously held a Heart & Stroke postdoctoral fellowship award. 

Funding Availability

$30,000/year for up to 2 years.

Indirect Costs

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