Team Grant — Collaborative (Seed)
Funds team-based health grants tackling national and international priorities to strengthen real-world implementation.
CIHR Team Grants fund collaborative research projects requiring multi-principal-investigator teams working on strategic, often time-sensitive priority topics. They represent a distinct program family from the open Project Grant competition and from topic-specific Operating Grants, requiring teams of multiple PIs rather than solo investigator applications. CIHR distributes approximately CAD $1 bill…
Avian influenza, rare disease research, school food and health, ultra-processed foods, NCD multi-sectors (GACD), healthy youth, ERDERA (rare disease, EU partnership).
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