Current Funding Opportunities

The Cardiac Arrest Team Grants will support multidisciplinary research teams across three key areas:

1. Prediction and early detection: Advancing ability to predict and detect cardiac arrest in the community or in hospital by deepening understanding of its causes and biological mechanisms.
2. Accelerating response and increasing survival: Developing sustainable, evidence-informed approaches to improve emergency response and survival — both out-of-hospital and in-hospital.
3. Optimizing brain recovery: Supporting survivors with evidence-based rehabilitation and recovery strategies that address physical, neurocognitive, and/or mental health needs. This includes support for families, caregivers, and communities.

Evidence clearly shows that increasing equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in research environments enhances excellence, innovation, and creativity. Brain Canada is committed to excellence through equity, and we encourage applicants of diverse backgrounds to apply to our funding opportunities, which will promote the expression of diverse perspectives, approaches, and experiences, including those of underrepresented groups.

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Registration deadline: December 16, 2025 at 3 p.m. ET

Deadline for receipt of Full Applications: March 17, 2026 at 3 p.m. ET

For more information, or if you have any questions regarding the application process, please consult this FAQ document, or contact research@heartandstroke.ca.

Funding for the Cardiac Arrest Team Grants has been made possible by Heart & Stroke, Canada’s leading health charity devoted to heart disease and stroke, the Canada Brain Research Fund (CBRF), an innovative arrangement between the Government of Canada (through Health Canada) and Brain Canada Foundation, and Canada’s federal funding agency for health research, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health.

Evidence clearly shows that increasing equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in research environments enhances excellence, innovation, and creativity. Brain Canada is committed to excellence through equity, and encourages applicants of diverse backgrounds to apply to our funding opportunities, which will promote the expression of diverse perspectives, approaches, and experiences, including those of underrepresented groups.  

Deadline for receipt of Letter of Intent: November 7, 2025 at 5 p.m. ET  

Deadline for receipt of Full Applications: February 20, 2026 at 5 p.m. ET  

For more information, or if you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact Brain Canada at futureleaders@braincanada.ca.    

This program has been made possible by the Canada Brain Research Fund (CBRF), an innovative arrangement between the Government of Canada, through Health Canada, and Brain Canada Foundation, designed to increase support of brain research on behalf of Canadians, and maximize the impact and efficiency of those investments. The Fund supports the very best Canadian neuroscience, fostering collaborative research and accelerating the pace of discovery, in order to improve the health and quality of life of those who suffer from brain disorders.  

We invite academics in partnership with Indigenous communities to bring forward projects that:

• Create Impact to measurably improve outcomes for Indigenous children and youth with neurodevelopmental disabilities and their caregivers.
• Are grounded in community-identified priorities, Indigenous knowledge, languages, and strengthen culturally appropriate approaches to care, support, and inclusion.
• Builds capacity, including non-western knowledge capacity, of Indigenous academics and the communities being served.
• Have clearly identified goals, activities, and expected outcomes that can be measured and shared with communities.
• Demonstrate feasibility and sustainability so that projects implemented and their benefits are maintained beyond the funding period.

This program is made possible by Kids Brain Health Network and the Canada Brain Research Fund, an innovative arrangement between the Government of Canada, through Health Canada, and Brain Canada

The ASRP provides grants and awards to support research in Canada that promise new insights into causes, risk reduction, diagnosis, treatment and management of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. 

Evidence clearly shows that increasing equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in research environments enhances excellence, innovation, and creativity. Brain Canada is committed to excellence through equity, and we encourage applicants of diverse backgrounds to apply to our funding opportunities, which will promote the expression of diverse perspectives, approaches, and experiences, including those of underrepresented groups. 

This program has been made possible by the Canada Brain Research Fund (CBRF), an innovative arrangement between the Government of Canada (through Health Canada), Brain Canada Foundation, and the Alzheimer’s Association. 

The 2025 Momentum Grants program aims to enable researchers to build upon their previously funded initial projects and explore new dimensions of their research with the potential to generate breakthroughs in our understanding of the brain.

This funding opportunity is open to previous recipients of Azrieli Foundation-Brain Canada Early-Career Capacity Building Grants or Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research Grants. It has a funding envelope of $1,000,000 CAD to support up to five grants of $200,000 over two years. Through the Momentum Grants, we aim to provide researchers with funding to sustain and accelerate their ongoing research, allowing them to capitalize on the initial momentum generated through their seed funding.

Evidence clearly shows that increasing equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in research environments enhances excellence, innovation, and creativity. Brain Canada is committed to excellence through equity, and we encourage applicants of diverse backgrounds to apply to our funding opportunities, which will promote the expression of diverse perspectives, approaches, and experiences, including those of underrepresented groups.

If you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact Brain Canada at futureleaders@braincanada.ca.

This program has been made possible by the Canada Brain Research Fund (CBRF), an innovative arrangement between the Government of Canada (through Health Canada), Brain Canada Foundation, and the Azrieli Foundation as well as other generous donors.

Alzheimer’s Association Clinician Scientist Fellowship for All (AACSFA)
Open to clinician scientists, which are as defined as an individual already trained, licensed and practicing in a clinical field that includes patient contact or patient-related diagnostic studies, this program supports the training of clinician scientists in the field of Alzheimer’s and all other dementias.

Alzheimer’s Association Research Fellowship for All (AARFA)
This program is designed to nurture the next generation of scientists by providing funding to postdoctoral researchers who have completed their doctoral training and are actively working in Alzheimer’s or dementia-related research under the mentorship of established investigators.

Alzheimer’s Association Research Grant For All (AARGA)
With the aim of providing newly independent investigators with funding that will allow them to develop preliminary or pilot data, to test procedures and to develop hypotheses, this program supports early-career researchers who have been in the position of an Assistant Professor or the equivalent for no more than seven years.

Brain Canada, through the Canada Brain Research Fund, has allocated $200,000 CAD to the 2025 Knowledge Mobilization Grants program, to be matched by funding provided by sponsors secured by the applicants, for a total possible funding envelope of $400,000 CAD. Grant amounts are flexible to accommodate a broad range of KM projects but overall project budgets must be a minimum of $25,000 CAD and up to $100,000 CAD maximum. 

Projects must focus on one or more of the following and include engagement, evaluation and sustainability planning:

• Development of KM outputs

• Dissemination to increase reach and use of KM outputs

• Implementation of existing research evidence

Teams are expected to engage and collaborate with stakeholders throughout their proposed KM project. This iterative approach to co-creation involving the intended users is designed to increase the applicability, distribution, and implementation of the project output(s), and, therefore, maximize their potential to achieve positive impact(s).

Evidence clearly shows that increasing equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in research environments enhances excellence, innovation, and creativity. Brain Canada is committed to excellence through equity, and we encourage applicants of diverse backgrounds to apply to our funding opportunities, which will promote the expression of diverse perspectives, approaches, and experiences, including those of underrepresented groups.

Deadline for receipt of Registration Forms: September 16, 2025 at 17:00 ET  

Deadline for receipt of Full Applications: October 21, 2025 at 17:00 ET   

Should you have any questions, please contact programs@braincanada.ca.

This program has been made possible by the Canada Brain Research Fund (CBRF), an innovative arrangement between the Government of Canada (through Health Canada) and Brain Canada Foundation.

Projects must explore the role of immune mechanisms and how they contribute to and/or modulate neurodegeneration. Examples of immune mechanisms include, but are not limited to, the role of innate or adaptive immunity, neuroinflammation, central or peripheral immune responses, interaction between the nervous system and immune system in aging, or the gut-immune–brain axis. 
 
Recognizing that groundbreaking ideas require diverse perspectives, this opportunity will support multidisciplinary research teams that bring together needed expertise in neuroscience and immunology along with other fields of study. Early career researchers are encouraged to apply, and researchers studying the immune system in other neurological diseases are invited to transfer their expertise to the neurodegenerative diseases covered in this funding opportunity. It is anticipated that this funding will catalyze new insights and support the generation of preliminary data and/or tools to provide teams and the field with new research directions.   
 
Evidence clearly shows that increasing equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in research environments enhances excellence, innovation and creativity. We are committed to excellence through equity and encourage applicants of diverse backgrounds to apply to this funding opportunity, which will promote the expression of diverse perspectives, approaches, and experiences, including those of underrepresented groups. 
 
  
Deadline for receipt of Registration Forms:  September 16, 2025 at 17:00 ET   
  
Deadline for receipt of Full Applications: October 21, 2025 at 17:00 ET 

Grants offered as part of the Solutions program support interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary teams including knowledge users. Considering the stage and goals of the proposed research, applicants select the appropriate grant opportunity according to the following objectives:

Innovation Grant :

Catalyzing new ideas and approaches to support innovative solutions that respond to focus area gaps and needs.

Impact Grant:

Advancing promising solutions into real-world and practical applications that respond to focus area gaps and needs.

Overview of Focus Area Eligibility

Brain Health
Brain Canada and SHRF have funding available for research into the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care of brain health conditions across the lifespan.Brain Health includes neurodevelopment, neurological disorders, mental illness, addictions, and brain and spinal cord injuries.

Proposed solutions must have the potential to impact brain health as reflected in the overall research goals, outcome measures and future development plans.

To maximize potential for impact, teams should consider where possible how their research uses the ‘One Brain’ approach, considering the brain as a single, interconnected system with commonalities and potential for impact across a number of brain-related conditions.

Funding Available for Brain Health
$1,400,000 for applications addressing any area of Brain Health

Click here to view the Request for Applications.

Eligibility Cut-Off: September 18, 2025 – 4:30 p.m. CST

Application Deadline: November 13, 2025 – 4:30 p.m. CST