Grant Development & Support
Heart & Stroke Foundation Grants-in-Aid Application Support
The Heart & Stroke Foundation (HSF) provides excellent funding opportunities each year for cardiovascular researchers.
Specifically, the Grants-in-Aid (GIA) program provides operating funds to individual researchers with a very broad mandate of supporting "important, pertinent, novel research in the areas of heart disease and/or stroke" and promoting "research discovery, exploration and innovation across all health research themes".
(GIA-2025-2026-Submission Guidelines, Fall 2024 competition)
*IMPORTANT * HSF 2025-26 Research Competitions are now OPEN!
NEW for this year:
The timing is tight, but the opportunity worthwhile. The University would like to support the cardiovascular research community to help increase the number of applications being submitted and odds of success.
To help with the preparation of your application, the Research Partner Network has developed the following reference document for you:
All cardiovascular researchers are encouraged to explore the Heart & Stroke GIA opportunity and to use these documents to assist in their efforts.
Should you have any questions, please reach out directly to Feiyue Akishyn, Research Partner (feiyue.akishyn@ualberta.ca).