Project Grant: Spring 2018 results
The Project Grant: Spring 2018 competition has approved 369 research grants, plus an additional 39 bridge grants (21 through the competition budget and 18 through Institute Priority Announcements), for a total investment of approximately $277 million.Footnote 1
The 369 grants approved were awarded to 361 individual nominated principal investigators (8 NPIs were awarded two grants). Of the 369 grants, 82 were awarded to early career researchers and 11 were awarded for Indigenous health research projects.
The average grant size/duration is approximately $740K over 4.4 years.
| Province | Applications submitted (% of apps submitted) |
Applications funded (% of apps funded) |
Province-specific success rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | 268 (10.2%) | 39 (10.6%) | 14.6% |
| Alberta | 257 (9.8%) | 39 (10.6%) | 15.2% |
| Saskatchewan | 40 (1.5%) | 3 (0.8%) | 7.5% |
| Manitoba | 78 (3.0%) | 3 (0.8%) | 3.8% |
| Ontario | 1,092 (41.5%) | 162 (43.9%) | 14.61% |
| Québec | 804 (30.5%) | 111 (30.1%) | 13.8% |
| New Brunswick | 5 (0.2%) | 0 | 0% |
| Nova Scotia | 59 (2.2%) | 10 (2.7%) | 16.9% |
| Prince Edward Island | 2 (0.1%) | 0 | 0% |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 28 (1.1%) | 2 (0.5%) | 7.1% |
| Total | 2,633 | 369 | |
| The success rate does not include bridge grants. | |||
Full list of Project Grant recipients
Full list of competition bridge grant recipients
Full list of Institute Priority Announcement bridge grant recipients
Note: As some of the applications have been approved conditionally, these specific applications will not appear in the detailed funding decisions database until the conditions have been resolved.
Additional details
Breakdown of competition results
| Application breakdown | Applications submitted (% of apps submitted) |
Applications funded (% of apps funded) |
Category-specific success rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early career researchers (ECRs) | 584 (22.2%) | 82 (22.2%) | 14.0% |
| Mid-career investigators | 1,130 (42.9%) | 159 (43.1%) | 14.1% |
| Senior investigators | 910 (34.6%) | 127 (34.4%) | 14.0% |
| Knowledge Users | 9 (0.3%) | 1 (0.3%) | 11.1% |
| Integrated KT | 458 (17.4%) | 64 (17.3%) | 14.0% |
| Investigators who identify as female | 941 (35.7%) | 147 (39.8%) | 15.6% |
| Indigenous Health | 28 (1.1%) | 11 (3.0%) | 39.3% |
| Submitted in French | 33 (1.3%) | 1 (0.3%) | 3.0% |
| Biomedical (Pillar 1) | 1,650 (62.7%) | 237 (64.2%) | 14.4% |
| Clinical (Pillar 2) | 515 (19.6%) | 65 (17.6%) | 12.6% |
| Health systems/services (Pillar 3) | 200 (7.6%) | 24 (6.5%) | 12.0% |
| Social/Cultural/Environmental/Population Health (Pillar 4) | 261 (9.9%) | 43 (11.7%) | 16.5% |
| The success rate does not include bridge grants. | |||
Large grants awarded
Large grants are defined as being in the top 2% of total grant value.
A total of 6 large grants were funded using a budget envelope of $13,307,175. One additional large grant was awarded a one-year bridge grant.
Early Career Researchers
The success rate for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) was equalized. This means that the proportion of ECRs funded equals the proportion of ECR applicants to the competition.
The total number of fully funded projects for applicants in this career stage went from 70 (before equalization) to 82 (after equalization).
Indigenous Health Research
All applications reviewed by the Indigenous Health Research committee went through an iterative peer review process.
Based on the recommendation of the review committee, 11 Indigenous health research projects were awarded funding and seven additional projects were awarded a one-year bridge grant. CIHR is proud to support these projects as part of its commitment to invest 4.6% of its annual budget in Indigenous health research.
Peer Review
Details about the Project Grant: Spring 2018 peer review participants are available separately.
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