The objective of this program is to recognize and support investigators who develop and submit major (at least three years duration) grant applications to a national peer-reviewed grant program. The bridge funds are to be used to conduct activities that will support re-submission of the grant application, e.g. preliminary data, method development, tool validity testing. An investigator who holds significant external research funding (e.g. a multi-year grant from a granting agency or current total funding of $50,000 or more per year) is not eligible for the Grant Submission Bridge Program award.

To be eligible, an applicant must have used the Pre-Submission Review Program of the PEI HRI, and must have revised their submission in response to the reviewers' comments. Prior to submission, the application must have been considered by the PEI HRI Research Committee to be capable of scoring at least 3.0, meaning fundable on the scale of the applicable granting agency. When a grant application scores below 3.0, the Grant Submission Bridge program can award $2,500. When a grant application scores above 3.0 but is not funded, this program can award up to $5,000.

To meet the conditions of the Individual/Group Grant Submission Bridge Program, an applicant must undertake to re-submit the grant application within 6-12 months. An applicant may receive only one award for similar grants submitted to multiple agencies or re-submitted after revision. The applicant must undertake to use this money to further develop the grant application or to obtain preliminary data to support re-submission. An applicant cannot hold Grant Submission Bridge Program Funding and Grant Development Funding at the same time.

Applications may be submitted at any time. Applicants should submit a request for funding (maximum of four pages) with a current curriculum vitae and a copy of any comments provided from external reviews of the previously submitted application(s). The application will be ranked on clarity of the research application. It should indicate the purpose/aims of the research, its relevance, how the funding will help to develop the proposal and the relationship of the work to future grant submissions.

Please send applications to:

Grant Submission Bridge Program
PEI Health Research Institute
304 Kelley Building
University of Prince Edward Island
550 University Avenue
Charlottetown, PE
C1A 4P3

or Email to: peihri@upei.ca