Canada Graduate Scholarships – Doctoral Program

$35,000 per year for 36 months

September 1 5:00PM — Registration deadline. Complete this form to register: https://forms.gle/tq2soutzGqP3qxs37 . Your acknowledgement email will contain detailed instructions on how to prepare your application for the pre-selection.  
September 18 – deadline for trainees to submit application for the St. Michael’s internal competition. Detailed instructions will be emailed to applicants at the time of registration.
November 2 – decision of internal review (applicants will find out whether they have been selected to submit their application)
November 18 – deadline for trainees whose application has been selected to submit finalized applications and document tracking for (DTF) to Dina
November 21 – final submission deadline through ResearchNet, applicant is responsible for this online submission.

Please note, that Indigenous applicants [First Nations, Métis, Inuit] are encouraged to self-identify their status on their application form as institutions are permitted to recommend an unlimited number of self-identified Indigenous applicants above their application quota to the national competition. Self-identification data are not seen or used by Tri-Agency selection committee members or by the applicant’s references. CIHR applicants should email RTC separately to notify us that they have self-identified their status on their CIHR application as this information is not disclosed by CIHR to the institutions.

How to Apply:

• Application Instructions
• ResearchNET
• Canadian Common CV
• Information for Sponsors

Application Support:

• Graduate Writing Resources
• Responsive Research: Competitive Scholarship Applications in the Medical and Health
• CIHR Scholarship Information Webinars
  These are interactive one-hour webinars offered by CIHR on how to apply. Attendees must register to join here:
  • English: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 starting at 1:00pm EDT
  • French: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 starting at 10:00am EDT
  • English: Thursday, September 10, 2020 starting at 10:00am EDT
  • French: Thursday, September 10, 2020 starting at 1:00pm EDT

• be a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident of Canada, as of the application deadline date
• have completed no more than 24 months of full-time study in their doctoral program by December 31 of the calendar year of application if previously enrolled in a master’s program
• have completed no more than 36 months of full-time study in their doctoral program by December 31 of the calendar year of application if enrolled in a joint program; for example, MD/PhD, MA/PhD
• applicants who fall into this category have access to the 36-month window whether or not they were previously enrolled in a master’s program
• have completed no more than 36 months of full-time study in their doctoral program by December 31 of the calendar year of application if enrolled directly from a bachelor’s to a PhD program (with no time spent in a master’s program)
• direct-entry applicants must be enrolled in their doctoral program at the time of application
• For the purpose of this application, the Nominated Principal Applicant must be a Trainee at the time of application.
• The Nominated Principal Applicant must not hold an open-ended academic position in which the holder can form a research group, apply for external funded research as a principal investigator, or  teach (other than as a TA).

• Applicants can submit a maximum of one scholarship application per academic year to CIHR.
• Nominations to the Vanier CGS program and applications to the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program do not count towards this limit (other exceptions may apply to CIHR internships).
• Applicants cannot have already received a doctoral-level scholarship from CIHR, NSERC or SSHRC (does not apply to CIHR Fellowships).