Scholarships, Fellowships & Awards

Precision Child Health (PCH) is a movement that aims to provide personalized care for children that attends to their their unique genetic, environmental and lifestyle factors.  

The Precision Child Health Partnership (PCHP) between SickKids and CHU Sainte-Justine, two of the largest children’s hospitals in Canada, will provide the foundation on which to expand and accelerate collaborative research efforts of clinicians and researchers with complementary expertise in exploring the genetic, biologic, environmental, and social determinants of health and disease.   

The PCHP Scholarship Program aims to support trainees working towards discoveries and the development of tools and technologies that will enable faster, more accurate and efficient diagnoses, more appropriate treatments, increased drug safety and equitable access to individualized care for children and youth.  

Value: 

• $35,000/year for up to 2 years for PhD Students  
• $60,000/year for 2 years for PhD-holding Research Fellows  

The scholarship activation date is September 1.  

Apply for these awards via Restracomp and select precision child health or precision therapy in the keywords section of the application

The Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children generously awards funding to Leong Scholars conducting research relating to child health equity.   

Value: $35,000/year for up to two years (Master’s level) or up to five years (PhD level).  

Apply for this award via Restracomp/CSTP and select child health equity in the keywords section of the application.  

Garron Family Cancer Centre Clinician Scientist Fellowships 

The Garron Family Cancer Centre (GFCC) offers a fellowship opportunity for clinical fellows looking to enhance their experience in cancer research. This fellowship opportunity aims to provide training through direct participation in basic science or clinical investigation under the supervision of world leaders in oncology research and clinical care. The goal is to promote career development in the clinician investigator and clinician scientist tracks. 

Successful applicants will receive the PGY5 salary plus benefits which is in part made up of: 

• $60,000 award/year for two years 
• $22,000 supervisor contribution/year for two years 

Applicants from a variety of clinical areas involved in cancer care are encouraged to apply including oncology fellows, surgical fellows, pathology fellows, etc. 

Garron Family Cancer Centre Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Awards 

The Garron Family Cancer Centre (GFCC) offers Postdoctoral Fellow and Graduate Student awards which provide funding for graduate students or postdoctoral fellows training and conducting cancer research at SickKids.  

The aim of these awards is to support the next generation of scientists to ultimately improve outcomes for children, adolescents and teens with cancer through fundamental and translational research.  

• $35,000/year for up to two years for graduate students  
• $60,000/year and $22,000 supervisor contribution each year for two years for postdoctoral research fellows   

The Garry Hurvitz Centre for Brain and Mental Health offers the Integrative Fellowship which provides funding to pursue two years of training for individuals who have already obtained a PhD and/or a medical degree. The purpose of the integrative fellowship is to provide an advanced professional with a comprehensive training opportunity in a new or different clinical or research area, which enhances and supplements their prior training and professional background.  

Value: $60,000/year for two years  

Apply for these awards via Restracomp/CSTP and select brain and mental health in the keywords section of the application.  

The Lap-Chee Tsui Fellowship for Research Excellence was established through the generosity of Dr. Tsui, one of Canada's best-known geneticists and a long-time member of the SickKids Research Institute. Dr. Tsui is celebrated for his identification of the defective gene that causes cystic fibrosis and for his significant contributions to the study of the human genome.  

The Lap-Chee Tsui Fellowship is a two-year award and provides research fellows with $39,550 in salary support including benefits per year, plus a one-time $5,000 research allowance.  

Apply through the Restracomp or CSTP Fellowship competition.

The LiUNA! Fellowship for Research Innovation has been established through the generosity of LiUNA! Local 183, which was established in 1952 to ensure the safety of labourers. It has grown to be the largest construction local union in North America, serving more than 52,000 construction workers and their families in the Greater Toronto Area alone.  

The LiUNA! Fellowship is a two-year award and provides research fellows with in $50,000 salary support per year, plus a $5,000 research allowance per year.  

You can apply through the Restracomp or CSTP Fellowship competition

The MICe Scholarship for Research Excellence has been established through the generosity of the Mouse Imaging Centre (MICe) at SickKids. MICe became operational in 2002 under the direction of Dr. Mark Henkelman as a unique resource and comprehensive imaging facility combining the latest state-of-the-art digital medical imaging technologies for the characterization of mouse functional genomics. Since then, MICe has grown to include more than 40 investigators whose research at MICe has been featured in more than 340 publications.

The MICe Scholarship is a two-year award and provides graduate students pursuing reserch at MICe with $30,000 per year in stipend support plus a one-time $5,000 research allowance. 

You can apply for the MICe Scholarship through the Restracomp or CSTP Fellowship competition.

This program provides funding support to awardees who are pursuing a doctoral degree in a health-related field in Canada or abroad. Canada Graduate Research Scholarship - Doctoral Awards are valued at $40,000 per year in salary support, for up to 3 years.  

Graduate students who are pursuing research under the supervision of a SickKids scientist should select The Hospital for Sick Children as both their research location and institution paid when applying for a CIHR CGRS-D Award  and should follow the application process and deadlines below.   

Deadline  

SickKids has an internal deadline for the CIHR CGRS-D program, normally in September annually. Please check with the RTC for information on the internal deadline and process.  

Eligibility and Award Duration  

Visit ResearchNet for current eligibility rules. For the CGRS-D Award, applications will be accepted in all areas of health research, including biomedical, clinical, health services, and social, cultural, environmental, and population health.   

Applicants seeking support for interdisciplinary research in areas that may overlap with the mandates of CIHR, NSERC, and/or SSHRC (for example, research in Biomedical Engineering) should consult withthe RTC  in advance of the SickKids internal deadline.   

How to Apply  

• Complete and submit your CIHR Canada Graduate Research Scholarship - Doctoral application to ResearchNet by the internal deadline .  
• Select SickKids (code CEAB) as your location of research and institution paid.

The CIHR Canada Postdoctoral Research Awards (CPRA) Program funds applications in any area of health research. Fellowships are valued at $70,000 per year.   

Fellows who are pursuing research under the supervision of a SickKids scientist, or are proposing a project to be supervised by a SickKids scientist, should select The Hospital for Sick Children as both their research location and institution paid when applying for a CIHR Canada Postdoctoral Research Award. 

Deadline  

Visit ResearchNet for the next CIHR Canada Postdoctoral Research Award global deadline.  SickKids has an internal deadline normally 1-2 weeks before the global deadline. Please contact the RTC for more information. 

Eligibility and Award Duration  

Consult ResearchNet for current eligibility rules. For CIHR Canada Postdoctoral Research Awards, applications will be accepted in all areas of health research, including biomedical, clinical, health services, and social, cultural, environmental and population health.   

Applicants seeking support for interdisciplinary research in areas that may overlap with the mandates of CIHR, NSERC, and/or SSHRC (for example, research in Biomedical Engineering) should consult the RTC, in advance of the SickKids internal deadline.   

How to Apply  

• Complete and submit your CIHR Fellowship application in ResearchNet by the internal deadline above.  
• Select SickKids (code CEAB) as your location of research and institution paid. 
• If you have done the above, no institutional signatures are required. You must still upload your signature page to your application, and your supervisor's signature is still required. 

SickKids researchers have access to Pivot, an international funding database the University of Toronto subscribes to on behalf of faculty researchers, postdocs, and research students.  

Pivot allows you to conduct and save advanced funding searches, including Canadian and international opportunities, track opportunities, receive notifications on upcoming deadlines, and share opportunities with colleagues.  

Register for a Pivot account below to get started!

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The Government of Canada’s International Funding database provides funding for Canadian students and fellows pursuing research abroad, and international students and fellows coming to Canada. 

View International Funding database

Please contact the RTC, for information on securing institutional signatures or matching funds for graduate scholarships, fellowships, and awards.

Any scholarship, fellowship, or award that will be paid through SickKids must be reviewed prior to submission by the RTC and requires the submission of a Notice of Award in myFinance.