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Canada Biomedical Research Fund and Biosciences Research Infrastructure Fund

In alignment with Canada's Biomanufacturing and Life Sciences Strategy , the Canada Biomedical Research Fund and the Biosciences Research Infrastructure Fund will help ensure Canada is prepared for future pandemics by increasing domestic capacity through investments and partnerships across the academic, public, private and non-profit sectors to produce life-saving vaccines and therapeutics.

Competitions

Stage 1: research hubs selection.

  Competition closed

Application process

Learn about the Stage 1 application process

Selection criteria

Learn about Stage 1 selection criteria, including details about the scientific and technical and the strategic review processes

Ratings matrices

Learn more about the ratings matrices used in the Stage 1 competition

Competition results

Selected research hubs from the Stage 1 competition

Scientific and Technical Review Committee

Learn about the Scientific and Technical Review Committee members for the Stage 1 competition

Strategic Review Committee

Learn about the Strategic Review Committee members for the Stage 1 competition

Stage 2: Applications for research, talent development and infrastructure projects aligned with research projects

Learn about the Stage 2 application process

Learn about Stage 2 selection criteria, including details about the scientific and technical and the strategic review processes

Learn more about the ratings matrices used in the Stage 2 competition

Notices of intent

(Excel document, 157 Kb) List of Notices of intent for Stage 2

Guidelines for Scientific and Technical Review

(PDF document, 697 Kb) Learn about the Scientific and Technical review guidelines for the Stage 2 competition

Guidelines for the Strategic Review

Guidelines for members of the Strategic Review Committee assessing Stage 2 applications

Selected projects from the Stage 2 competition

Learn about the Strategic Review Committee members for the Stage 2 competition

Scientific and Technical Review Committees

Learn about the Scientific and Technical Review Committee members for the Stage 2 competition

Related information

The integrated canada biomedical research fund and biosciences research infrastructure fund (cbrf-brif) public communications guidelines for institutions.

On social media

Tri-Agency Institutional Programs Secretariat

  •       @TIPS_SPIIE
  •       TIPS-SPIIE

Canada Foundation for Innovation

  •       @innovationca
  •       canada-foundation-for-innovation
  •       CFIFCI
  • Government of Canada funds new projects to further grow the domestic biomanufacturing and life sciences sector May 6, 2024
  • Planned outage for data centre move April 25, 2024
  • Statement from Minister Champagne, Minister Holland and Minister LeBlanc on new measures to protect Canadian research January 16, 2024
  • Government of Canada establishes new research hubs to accelerate Canada’s vaccine and therapeutics production March 2, 2023

From: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

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CIHR Funding opportunities

medical research funding canada

  • Notice of upcoming COVID-19 research funding opportunity: COVID-19 Outpatient Therapeutic Study (Updated)
  • New investments for COVID-19 impact research will support an equitable pandemic recovery for all Canadians
  • Notice of upcoming COVID-19 research funding opportunity (Updated)
  • Pre-Announcement: Indigenous Peoples and COVID-19 Rapid Research Funding Opportunity (Updated)
  • Operating Grant: Addressing the Wider Health Impacts of COVID-19
  • Update on COVID-19 Funding Opportunities and the Fall 2021 Project Grant Competition
  • Pre-announcement: Notice of upcoming COVID-19 research funding opportunity (Updated)
  • Government of Canada invests to encourage confidence in vaccines
  • Agencies to pay postdoctoral fellows through Canadian host institutions
  • Operating Grant: Understanding and mitigating the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on children, youth and families in Canada
  • The federal granting agencies announce funding to encourage vaccine confidence in Canada
  • Notice of upcoming funding opportunity: CIHR Network for Emerging Variants Research (previously called the Canadian Network of Networks for SARS-CoV-2 Variant Research) (Updated)
  • Pre-Announcement: CIHR Funding for SARS-CoV-2 Variant Research (Updated)
  • Network of Clinical Trials Networks: Collaboration to Evaluate COVID-19 and Intervention Strategies
  • Why sex and gender need to be considered in COVID-19 research
  • Notice of upcoming funding opportunities: Mental Health and Substance Use Responses to COVID-19 (April 24, 2020)

Initiatives

  • COVID-19 and Mental Health (CMH) Initiative
  • Sex as a Biological Variable Supplement: COVID-19

Funding opportunities and results