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 billion annually; Team Grants form part of the strategic priority-driven allocation that accounts for roughly 25% of that envelope and are issued through specific calls with defined themes, timelines, and partnership requirements.
Team Grant calls active or near-deadline as of the May 2026 data snapshot include: Avian Influenza Coordination and Knowledge Mobilization Hub (registration 28 May 2026, application 14 July 2026), ERDERA Joint Transnational Call for rare disease research with European partners (application 9 July 2026), Funding Research for Evidence in School Food and Health — FRESH (registration 25 June 2026, application 7 October 2026), GACD 2026 NCD Multi Sectors for non-communicable disease research in low- and middle-income settings (application 23 June 2026), Health Effects of Ultra-Processed Foods (application 24 November 2026), and Healthy Youth 2025 (registration 28 April 2026, application 16 June 2026). Topic coverage spans infectious disease, rare disease, nutrition, school health, and ageing-related non-communicable diseases.
International Team Grant calls such as ERDERA and GACD carry partner-country eligibility requirements defined by their respective consortia; Canadian applicants lead through ResearchNet while partner-country teams apply via their national agencies. Some calls include a mandatory registration step with an earlier deadline than the full application. Applications are submitted through ResearchNet by Canadian host research institutions. Individual calls with fully specified parameters and stable deadlines should be reviewed on their respective ResearchNet opportunity pages.
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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