Funding

Our funding programs promote research excellence and spur innovations in child health by:

Investing in our world-class researchers
Fostering the next generation of health researchers and attracting top trainees from around the world
Fostering new collaborations and networks
Developing core technologies and services

Institutional Funding Opportunities

BC Children's Hospital Research Institute awards foster research collaborations and networks, and develop core facility capabilities and specialized services.

If you are a member of the Research Institute, please visit ResearchHub.

Investigator Funding Opportunities

BC Children's Hospital Research Institute provides funding to its investigators through award programs supported by BC Children’s Hospital Foundation.

Investigator Grant Award Program (IGAP)
Investigator Establishment Award

If you are a member of the Research Institute, please visit ResearchHub or contact Research Services.

Training Funding Opportunities

The Research Institute provides several research training awards to highly qualified individuals who are supervised by BC Children's Hospital investigators. These awards enable our investigators to recruit and support exceptional trainees, ensuring future excellence in care and research relating to improving the health of children and families.

For more information, please visit the Training Opportunities or contact Research Education.

Theme Funding Opportunities

The BC Children's Hospital Research Themes provide annual funding opportunities for investigators to support studies in child health.

If you are a member of the Research Institute, please contact your Theme Manager for information about upcoming funding competitions.

Our Institutional, Investigator and Trainee funding programs are managed by Research Services at BC Children's Hospital. This team provides a wide range of institutional and faculty support programs and services, including recruitment, membership and on-site grant processing administration.

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Pediatric Sepsis Data Challenge invites researchers to help develop a model to save lives

To help prevent more children from dying of sepsis, the Institute for Global Health is inviting researchers to help design an open-source algorithm that predicts in-hospital mortality in low- and middle-income countries.

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Crafting beating heart cells to deliver personalized treatments for kids with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Researchers at BC Children's Hospital Research Institute are working with human-induced pluripotent stem cells to develop safer and more effective treatments for kids with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

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Congratulations CIHR Spring 2024 Project Grant recipients

Congratulations to the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR) and Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI) investigators and their teams who were awarded $5 million in funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Spring 2024 Project Grant competition.

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Torin Halvorson and Hebah Hussaina awarded Vanier scholarships for immunotherapy and mental health research

BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR) is proud to announce that two of its outstanding research trainees, Torin Halvorson, an MD/PhD student working with the Levings research team, and Hebah Hussaina, a graduate research assistant in the Brussoni Lab, have been awarded the prestigious 2024 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.

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Studies highlight the impact of the pandemic on children and youth’s mental health

The Pediatric Outcome ImProvement through COordination of Research Networks — which involves BCCHR — has published their latest research findings on mental health hospitalizations of children and youth throughout the pandemic. These findings led the team to a second study where they evaluated the relationship between hospital admissions for eating disorders and public health restrictions.

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