WE-SPARK Health Institute issues 2024 grant call

WE-SPARK Health Institute is now accepting applications to stimulate the development of early-stage, novel, and innovative health research and education projects in Windsor-Essex.

The WE-SPARK Igniting Discovery Grants provide funding for projects that have any health research focus across all health themes: biomedical research; clinical research; implementation science; educational health programs; health services research; and social, cultural, environmental, and population health research.

Additional grants are also available:

• Cancer Research, funded by the Seeds4Hope Program, Windsor Cancer Centre Foundation
• Childhood Cancer Research, funded by ChildCan
• Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Research, funded by the Katelyn Bedard Bone Marrow Association
• The Tayfour and Emara Research Grant, funded by Dr. Fouad Tayfour and Dr. Barry Emara
  

The objectives of the grants are to provide new research teams and programs with support to pursue projects and encourage exploratory and discovery-oriented projects, and boost collaborations among the Windsor-Essex community and beyond.

The letter of intent deadline is 5 p.m.  April 1.  They are non-competitive and are used to assign reviewers. The funding start date is September 2024.

Click here for complete information including guidelines and application forms. 

Find a list of previously funded projects at https://www.wesparkhealth.com/projects.