Funding Opportunities
Currently Offered Funding Opportunities
Intersectoral Collaborative Program for Brain-Heart Research
The Intersectoral Collaborative Program (ICP) for Brain-Heart Research is supported by the Brain-Heart Interconnectome and its core partners – Bruyère Health Research Institute, Institut Savoir Monfort, The Royal’s Institute for Mental Health Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, University of Ottawa, University of Ottawa Brain & Mind Research Institute, McGill University, McGill University Health Centre (MUHC RI) and University of Saskatchewan. The ICP will advance priorities in brain-heart research and accelerate interdisciplinary and intersectoral collaboration for sustainable impact - from bench to bedside to community – and back.
Previously Offered Funding Opportunities
BHI Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (2025–2026)
This funding opportunity aims to attract and support outstanding post-doctoral fellows whose research advances the goals of the Brain-Heart Interconnectome (BHI) initiative.
Collaborative Research Planning & Dissemination Grants
The objective of this program is to support planning and dissemination activities of the BHI foundations, themes and cross-cutting enablers that contribute to the advancement of the BHI Theory of Change.
Impact Grants Program
The objective of this program is to accelerate brain–heart (B–H) research that has the potential to quickly deliver important and timely outcomes, and contribute to sustainable long-term health, societal and/or economic impacts that are equitable in their process and impact.
BHI Scholarship Program
This funding opportunity aims to attract and support outstanding graduate-level trainees whose research advances the goals of the Brain-Heart Interconnectome (BHI) initiative.
Research Relationship Ignition Program
The objective of this program is to foster the development of relationships between researchers, patients, and other knowledge users for the purpose of co-producing brain-heart research and mobilizing research outcomes.
Research and Knowledge Mobilization - Exploration Program
The objective of this program is to advance new areas of mission-driven, high-impact integrated brain-heart research.
Thank you
The Brain-Heart Interconnectome (BHI) is a ground-breaking interdisciplinary research program aimed at accelerating prevention, detection, treatment and care of brain-heart disorders.
This research was undertaken thanks in part to funding from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund.