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Funding Opportunity Details

Funding Organization Canadian Institutes of Health Research Program Name Doctoral Research Award
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        Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Doctoral Program (CGRS D): 2025-2026 **Program Launch Date** 2025-07-08 **Deadline Date** TBD

Important Dates

| Competition | 202511DTA
CLOSED |
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| Application Deadline | 2025-11-21 |
| Anticipated Notice of Decision | 2026-04-30 |
| Funding Start Date | 2026-05-01 |

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Notices

The content of this funding opportunity has been updated
Date updated: 2025-08-08
Section(s) updated: How to Apply

Important Note on Deadlines for Canada Graduate Research Scholarships Doctoral Program 2025-2026 (202511DTA)

November 21, 2025 is the deadline for institutions to forward applications to the Agency.

Application deadlines for applicants applying:

• Through a Canadian institution: Contact your institution
• Directly to the agencies: October 17 For more information on the application deadlines and the application process, consult Canada Graduate Research Scholarships – Doctoral program.

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Table of Contents

• Description
• Objectives
• Eligibility
• Guidelines
• Review Process and Evaluation
• How to Apply
• Contact Information
• Sponsor Description

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Description

The Canada Graduate Research Scholarship Doctoral (CGRS D) program supports and promotes research excellence in a wide variety of disciplines and broad fields of health, natural sciences and engineering, and social sciences and humanities, including interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research. This support allows scholars to more fully concentrate on their doctoral studies, to seek out the best research mentors in their chosen fields and contribute to the Canadian research ecosystem during and beyond the tenure of their awards.

For detailed information, visit the harmonized CGRS D program page.

Research Areas

• This funding opportunity will support projects relevant to the following research areas:
  • Doctoral Research Award: Fall 2025 Priority Announcements (Specific Research Areas) Funds Available

CIHR and partner(s) financial contributions are subject to availability of funds. Should CIHR or partner(s) funding levels not be available or decrease due to unforeseen circumstances, CIHR and partner(s) reserve the right to reduce, defer or suspend financial contributions to awards received as a result of this funding opportunity.

• The total amount available for this funding opportunity is $76,200,000 million. Of this $76,200,000:
  • Approximately $75,000,000 over three (3) years will be available for the open Canada Graduate Research Scholarship Doctoral competition; enough to fund approximately 625 awards.
  • $1,200,000 will be available over three (3) years to fund at least ten (10) additional awards to support meritorious Black Scholars.
• The maximum amount per award is $40,000 per year for up to three (3) years. Award funding is allocated as follows:
  • Training stipend: $40,000 per annum. Applicant self-identification information may be used by CIHR to consider individuals for designated funding, should it become available.

CIHR may reserve funding for awards in priority research areas.

Black Scholars

The Government of Canada has deployed additional funds to increase direct support for Black scholars. Canadian applicants (including permanent residents and protected persons) who self-identify as Black and provide consent in their application to be considered for funds designated to specific groups may be able to receive this funding through a doctoral scholarship as part of this initiative. CIHR has 10 additional CGRS D awards reserved for this initiative.

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Objectives

The objective of the Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Doctoral (CGRS D) program is to recognize and support the next generation of outstanding innovators, knowledge workers, creative thinkers and researchers. By providing support for a high-quality research training experience to awardees, the CGRS D program strives to foster impacts within and beyond the research environment.

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Eligibility

Eligibility to Apply

For detailed information on eligibility, and more, visit the harmonized CGRS D program page.

The NPA must complete one of CIHR's three interactive modules on sex and gender in research (see Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Doctoral (CGRS D) program: Application Instructions for further details).

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Guidelines

General CIHR Policies

Before submitting an application to this funding opportunity, applicants should review the relevant policies and guidelines on the CIHR Funding Policies page, including the CIHR Application Administration Guide – Part 2 General Requirements for Grants and Awards Applications, to ensure understanding of their roles and responsibilities.

Use of Personal Information

All information is shared in accordance with the Privacy Act. As per the Privacy Act, personal information means information about an identifiable individual that is recorded in any form.

• Personal information submitted during the application process, including but not limited to information provided through applicant CVs, the Tri-agency Self-identification Questionnaire and other application documents required by this funding opportunity, will be made available to select CIHR personnel with the appropriate training and security clearance and on a need-to-know basis, for the purposes of future program planning and design and evaluation and learning for organizational and program strengthening. In addition, CIHR may share de-identified, aggregated self-identification information with the sponsoring institutes and competition partners, for this purpose. For further information about the Self-identification Questionnaire and the use of personal information, see the Tri-agency Self-identification Questionnaire Frequently Asked Questions.
• For this funding opportunity, select self-identification questionnaire responses will be shared with authorized CIHR personnel to determine eligibility of applicants for designated funding and to equalize the success rates of underrepresented groups.
• For priority announcements related to this funding opportunity, some sections of the application containing information that directly or indirectly identifies the applicant(s), will be shared with some funding partner(s) and/or CIHR Institute staff, to assist with relevance review and funding decisions. Conditions of Funding

In addition to the general conditions of funding governing CIHR awards, the following are the program specific conditions of funding applicable to this funding opportunity:

• This award must be accepted within 15 working days of the date of offer or the award will be cancelled and potentially offered to the next fundable applicant.
• Successful applicants must begin their award within 12 months of the earliest possible start date and start May 1, September 1 or January 1 following the offer of award.
• Awards will begin only after the successful applicant has registered in a full-time doctoral program and has provided official confirmation from the Registrar's office of their registration.
• Successful applicants are required to obtain the research institution's signature.
• If the successful recipient holds another federally-funded award, it must be terminated prior to the start of the CIHR Canada Graduate Research Scholarship Doctoral (CGRS D) award.
• Data related to First Nations, Inuit or Métis communities whose traditional and ancestral territories are in Canada must be managed in accordance with data management principles developed and approved by those communities, and on the basis of free, prior and informed consent. This includes, but is not limited to, considerations of Indigenous data sovereignty, as well as data collection, ownership, protection, use, and sharing.
• The Nominated Principal Applicant will be required to contribute to the monitoring, review and evaluation of CIHR's programs, policies and processes by participating in evaluation studies, surveys, workshops, audits and providing data or reports as required for the purpose of collecting information to assess progress and results.

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Review Process and Evaluation

Review Process

For information on the peer review process for this funding opportunity, see CIHR Reviewers' Guide for the Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Doctoral (CGRS D) program.

For information on CIHR's peer review principles, see the Peer Review: Overview section of CIHR's website.

For detailed information regarding evaluation criteria, visit the harmonized CGRS D program page.

Peer review will be conducted in accordance with the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA).

Relevance Review Process

For applications submitted to this competition, and having also requested to be considered for one or more research areas, applicants must consent to the use and disclosure of full application and nominative information to CIHR and Partners (e.g. completed relevance forms, project titles) for relevancy review and/or funding decision by the relevant sponsors.

Funding Decision

Upon completion of the peer review, CIHR will generate ranking lists for each committee. These lists will be used for funding decision-making purposes and will remain anonymous. Applications will be funded by committee from the top down in order of ranking as far as the budget will allow.

Up to 15% of all doctoral awards will be available to international applicants. International applicants are those who are not considered Canadian citizens, permanent residents, or Protected Persons under subsection 95(2) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Canada) at the time of application.

Up to 20% of all doctoral awards will be available to applicants who have indicated a host institution outside of Canada.

CIHR reserves the right to break ties in ranking by prioritizing applications based on overall scores received for specific evaluation criteria, in the following order of priority: Relevant experience and achievements obtained within and beyond academia followed by Research and Potential.

Applications that receive a final rating below 3.5 will not be funded.

The names of successfully funded applicants will be published on the CIHR website.

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How to Apply

To complete a Full Application, applicants must follow the instructions in Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Doctoral (CGRS D) program: Application Instructions.

• Read all instructions related to the application process before applying.
• Applicants who are Protected Persons must contact CIHR's Contact Centre for additional instructions.
• Consult the Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Doctoral (CGRS D): Frequently Asked Questions.
• Applicants may submit their application in the official language of their choice.
• All participants listed, are required to:
  • Have/obtain a CIHR PIN
  • Complete the Tri-Agency Self-identification Questionnaire. How to Submit an Application

Important: The "Institution Paid" field determines which organization will receive the application (Canadian institution with a quota or CIHR). Failure to submit an application through the correct channel, as described below, will result in an application being rejected from the competition.

• For Canadian, Permanent Resident or Protected Person applicants, enrolled during the calendar year of application at:
  • a Canadian institution with a quota, select the institution from the drop down menu.
  • a Canadian institution without a quota or a foreign institution, manually type CIHR in the "Other" field.
• For Canadian, Permanent Resident or Protected Person applicants, not enrolled at any institution during the calendar year of application:
  • manually type CIHR in the "Other" field.
• For International applicants, enrolled at the time of application in their PhD program at: (Updated: 2025-08-08)
  • a Canadian institution with a quota, select the Canadian institution from the drop down menu.
  • a Canadian institution without a quota, manually type CIHR in the "Other" field. For more information, refer to the flow chart " How to Submit an Application to the Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Doctoral (CGRS D) program".

Applicants Registered during the year of Application at an Institution with a CIHR Quota

An applicant registered at any time during the calendar year of application in a degree program at a Canadian institution with a Quota must apply through their Canadian institution with a CIHR quota * by completing a ResearchNet application. Applicants must communicate directly with their institution to determine their institution's internal deadline as this deadline may be well in advance of the agency deadline.

An international applicant must be registered at an eligible Canadian institution at the time of application. International applicants must verify whether their eligible Canadian institution has a quota * and if not, they must apply directly to CIHR.

*The term quota refers to the maximum number of applications an institution can forward to each agency's national competition. Institutions receive separate quotas from each agency (CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC). Applicants should first determine if an institution has a quota for their selected agency and then visit the harmonized CGRS D program page to determine where to submit their application. Applicants who are unsure about where to apply should contact the appropriate agency.

Applicants with No Institutional Affiliation OR Registered at an Institution without a CIHR Quota

If the applicant is Canadian, Permanent Resident or Protected Person and has not been affiliated with an institution within the calendar year of application or not been registered at any time during the calendar year of application in a degree program at a Canadian institution with a quota for CIHR, the applicant must:

• Apply directly to CIHR by October 17th at 8:00 pm ET via ResearchNet
• Complete the " Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Doctoral (CGRS D) program: Self-Declaration of No Institutional Affiliation with a Quota Form " and upload this form in the application Indigenous Applicants

Institutions may recommend applications from self-identified Indigenous applicants to the doctoral awards competition beyond their application quota. Indigenous applicants must agree to their personal information being used for this purpose by making the appropriate selection in the application form.

Applicants who would like to self-identify as an Indigenous applicant should complete and submit the following " Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Doctoral (CGRS D) program: Voluntary Self-Identification Form for Indigenous Applicants ".

Eligible self-identified Indigenous applicants who are required to submit directly to the appropriate agency are automatically evaluated in the national competition.

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Contact Information

For all inquiries, please contact:

CIHR Contact Centre
Telephone: 613-954-1968
Toll Free: 1-888-603-4178
Email: support-soutien@cihr-irsc.gc.ca

For service hours, please consult our CIHR Contact Centre page.

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Sponsor Description

Canadian Institutes of Health Research ****
At the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), we know that research has the power to change lives. As Canada's health research investment agency, we collaborate with partners and researchers to support the discoveries and innovations that improve our health and strengthen our health care system.

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