See below for a list of research funding opportunities available for USask faculty. If you have any questions, or know of any other opportunities, please contact Research Acceleration and Strategic Initiatives at research.services@usask.ca. 

Opportunities by Month

01-Oct  Innovation Saskatchewan Top-Up Funding for Eligible DAAD Programs and Germany-USask Partnership Building Activities (Application)
01-Oct  Cystic Fybrosis Canada - Early Career Investigator Awards (Application) 
01-Oct  SSHRC Insight Grant (Application)
01-Oct  SSHRC Team Grant: Pan-Canadian Network: Emerging LHS in Perinatal Mental Health (Application)
02-Oct  Heart and Stroke Foundation - Postdoctoral Fellowship Personnel Awards for Women’s Heart and/or Brain Health (Application) 
02-Oct  MS Canada - Catalyst Research Grant (Application) 
02-Oct  MS Canada - Discovery Research Grant (Application)
02-Oct  MS Canada - endMS Doctoral Studentship Award (Application) 
02-Oct  MS Canada - endMS Postdoctoral Fellowship (Application) 
02-Oct  SSHRC Insight Grant (Application) * Updated Deadline*
06-Oct  SSHRC Partnership Development Grant (Notice of Intention to Apply to Internal Review)
07-Oct  Burroughs Wellcome Fund - Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS) (LOI) 
08-Oct  NSERC - ECCC Call for Proposals on Plastic Science and Innovation for a Cleaner and More Sustainable Future (Application) 
09-Oct  SHRF Achievement Award (Application)
14-Oct  New Frontiers in Research Fund - Exploration (Usask RASI Compliance Deadline)
15-Oct  SSHRC Partnership Development Grant (Internal Review Draft Deadline) 
16-Oct  SSHRC Indigenous Science and the Impacts of Plastic Pollution (Application)
20-Oct  Canada Space Agency - Flights and Fieldwork for the Advancement of Science and Technology (FAST)(Application)
20-Oct  NSERC Discovery Horizons (Application)
21-Oct New Frontiers in Research Fund - Exploration (Application)
23-Oct  Cancer Grand Challenges (Full Application) 
23-Oct  CIHR Catalyst Grant: Partnering for Impact (Application)
24-Oct  RUH Foundation Community Mental Health Endowment Grant (Application)
27-Oct  NSERC Discovery Grant Internal Deadline (Application) 
27-Oct  NSERC Research Tools and Intstruments (RTI) Grant (Application) 
29-Oct  SSHRC Partnership Grants (Application)

03-Nov  Alzheimer Society Canada - 2025 Doctoral and Postdoctoral Awards (Application) 
03-Nov Kidney Foundation of Canada - Allied Health Kidney Doctoral Fellowship (Application)
03-Nov Kidney Foundation of Canada - Allied Health Kidney Research Grant (Application)
03-Nov NSERC Discovery Grant (Application)
03-Nov  NSERC - Discovery Grant - Northern Research Supplements (NRS) Program (Application)
03-Nov NSERC - Subatomic Physics Discovery Grants (Application)
03-Nov  Parkinson Canada - 2026 Postdoctoral and Clinician Scientist Fellowship (Application) 
03-Nov  SSHRC Connection Grant (Application) 
04-Nov Lung Cancer Research Foundation - 2025 LCRF Team Science Award on Advancing Therapies Toward CURING EGFR Mutated Lung Cancers (Application)
04-Nov  SSHRC Indigenous Innovation and Leadership in Research Network Grants - Stage 1 (Application)
05-Nov CIFAR - Azrieli Global Scholars (Application)
05-Nov European Research Council - Synergy Grant (Application)
06-Nov  Grain Farmers of Ontario - Research Award (Application)
06-Nov NSERC - NSERC-CNSC Small Modular Reactors Research Gran Initiative (Phase II) (Application)
07-Nov  SSHRC Partnership Development Grant (RASI Compliance Deadline)
10-Nov Alzheimer's Association - Alzheimer's Association Research Grant for All (AARGA)(Application)
10-Nov Alzheimer's Association - Alzheimer’s Association Clinician Scientist Fellowship for All (AACSFA)(Application)
13-Nov SHRF Solutions Program - Innovation and Impact (Application)
14-Nov Kidney Foundation of Canada - Kidney Health Research Grants (Application)
17-Nov  SSHRC Partnership Development Grant (Application Deadline) 
21-Nov  CIHR Doctoral Research Award: Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Doctoral Program (CGRS D) (Application)
27-Nov  SHRF Connections Program - Align Grant (Application) 

CIHR, SSHRC, NSERC, and CFI Grant Calendar 

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