Procedures and timelines for the CIHR Fall 2024 Project Grant competition.
| Important Dates | |
|---|---|
| August 14, 2024 | 5pm | Register for Project Grant via ResearchNet. |
| Check with your Department/School | Application package sent to Department Head/School Director office for review & approvalSee below for application package details. |
| September 3, 2024 | 4pm | FoM Internal Deadline: Application package sent to Dean’s Office or affiliated hospital research office via email for review & approval. |
| September 5, 2024 | 8:30am | UBC Internal Deadline: Application package approved by Faculty, and forwarded to ORS. If applicable, submit the NSGRP Risk Assessment Form and application package for validation to the UBC Research Security Team. |
| September 10, 2024 | 12pm | Applicant e-Submission Deadline: Applicant submits application on ResearchNet. |
| September 11, 2024 | 5pm | CIHR Application Deadline: ORS approves application on ResearchNet. |
Procedure
For the CIHR Fall 2024 Project Grant competition, the Faculty of Medicine (FoM) has established the following procedures, in alignment with the Office of Research Services timelines:
- Your application package must be submitted to the Dean’s Office or affiliated hospital research office by Tuesday, September 3, 2024 for Faculty approval. Please send it via email to the Faculty signature contact for your site. Note that Evelina Tolstykh (fom.grantapprovals@ubc.ca) is the contact for Faculty approval for those located at the UBC Point Grey campus. See below for a complete list of the required items.
- Your NSGRP Risk Assessment Form, applicable when applying with a private sector partner, must be submitted directly to research.security@ubc.ca by Thursday September 5, 2024 at 8:30am at the latest.
- After Faculty approval, your application package will be forwarded to ORS.
- Your application must be submitted via ResearchNet no later than 12pm on Tuesday, September 10, 2024.
- ORS will electronically approve your application via ResearchNet for submission to CIHR.
Please remember that you can continue working on your research proposal up until you submit on ResearchNet on September 10, even after you have submitted your application package for Faculty approval.
To avoid system issues which may cause delay in the submission process on the deadline day, you are highly encouraged to submit early. While ORS makes best efforts to submit all applications on time and to facilitate support for our research community, application packages submitted for Faculty approval after September 3 may not receive a guarantee of administrative review from ORS which includes confirmation of application completeness.
NEW for CIHR Project Grant Fall 2024
Please note that starting May 1, 2024, new federal research security requirements apply to applications for research funding from the Tri-Agencies and Canada Foundation for Innovation when the project aims to advance certain sensitive technology research areas. The CIHR Project Grant program is affected by these changes. Please review the policies and whether they are applicable to your application via UBC Research Security website and by completing the Federal research security funding policy self-check.
Required Documents
Required Documents to be submitted to the FoM for the CIHR Fall2024 Project Grant competition:
- Completed Research Project Information Form including the following signatures:
- the Principal Investigator
- Department Head or School Director
- Research Centre Director (if using research space within a Senate-Approved Research Centre, identified with an asterisk on the Academic & Research Units page)
- Life Sciences Institute Director (if using research space within the Life Sciences Building, but excludes researchers using space within the Centre for Blood Research)
- Complete application, including the following sections:
- All pages of the CIHR Application Detail sections (download from ResearchNet under “Preview Application Materials”)
- Complete Summary page
- Other Applicants pages, if applicable
- Budget modules, including written justifications and quotes, where applicable
- Partner budget details, if applicable
- Signed letter(s) of support from Partners (cash or in-kind), if applicable
Please note, the letters from collaborators are not required for UBC internal submission.
Please also review the ORS website for the CIHR-specific Agency Application Requirements & Procedures.
If you have any questions regarding this process, please contact Evelina Tolstykh at FoM (evelina.tolstykh@ubc.ca).