ARCHIVED – Results of the September 2010 Operating Grants Competition

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(2011-01-26) On behalf of CIHR, I am pleased to announce the results of the fall 2010 Open Operating Grants competition, in which CIHR approved the investment of $250.5 million over five years. We met our commitment to the research community to fund at least 400 grants from the core competition budget and to maintain or increase the average value of these grants. In addition, 14 full term grants and 85 bridge grants were funded through Priority Announcements and other sources for a total of 501 grants approved from the Operating Grant 2010-2011 (September) competition. We were also able to increase the average full term grant size from $589,634 to $591,596, up 0.3% from the spring 2010 competition.

As previously ARCHIVED - announced, the September 2010 competition also marked the first time that the Open Operating Grants competition included a specific funding pool - worth approximately $12.5 million - for large grants, including RCTs. Four large grants with an average total grant size of $2.6 million were funded in this competition.

CIHR remains committed to funding research excellence. The results of this funding competition represent positive news for the research community and for all Canadians who will ultimately benefit from the results of the research we fund. I wish to congratulate the recipients of September 2010 Open Operating Grants and wish them success in all their research endeavours.

Pierre Chartrand, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer and Vice-President, Research
Canadian Institutes of Health Research

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