2025 Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada Personnel Awards for Black and Indigenous scholars – deadline March 20

Heart & Stroke, along with Brain Canada, is pleased to announce the Personnel Awards for Black and Indigenous scholars research competitions. Note that these are separate competitions with the same award value and deadline date.

These awards aim to promote strategic growth in heart and brain health science with Black and Indigenous communities by supporting Black and Indigenous students to pursue their postgraduate studies.

These awards will be offered to students accepted to or enrolled in master’s or doctoral programs in Canada who identify as Black or Indigenous and who are studying in an area specific to heart or brain health. These multi-year awards will function as salary stipends intended to enable trainees to focus on their studies and advance in their chosen fields.

Full competition guidelines for the Personnel Awards are available on the Heart & Stroke website:

• English guidelines
• French guidelines

Amount of award:

• Master’s awards (2-year awards): $27,000 per year
• Doctoral awards (3-year awards): $40,000 per year

First awards starting in September 2025.

Questions? Please email research@heartandstroke.ca