HSRLCE Studentship Awards

Next Application Deadline: May 30, 2025

Description

The Heart & Stroke/Richard Lewar Centre of Excellence in Cardiovascular Research (HSRLCE) offers studentship awards to support early-stage trainees pursuing careers in cardiovascular science. These awards aim to strengthen Toronto’s cardiovascular research community by recognizing individuals with strong academic records and promising research environments.

Eligibility Requirements

  1. The program is open to both Canadian citizens and international students who wish to undertake graduate training at the University of Toronto.
  2. Applicants must be primarily supervised by a Member of the Centre; supervisors must be Members at the time of application. Each application is considered a joint submission by the applicant and the proposed supervisor. The research plan should be written in full by the student in consultation and in agreement with the supervisor.
  3. Applicants to the studentship competition must be enrolled in a full time MSc or PhD degree program at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine School of Graduate Studies at the time of commencement of funding. Documentation of enrollment will be required prior to the initiation of funding. The graduate degree program you are registered with via ROSI must be a Faculty of Medicine department/institute program.
    Note for IBBME students: To be eligible, IBBME graduate students must be registered on ROSI under Biomedical Engineering (BME). IBBME students registered on ROSI under Mechanical Industrial Engineering (MIE) are not eligible.
  4. The applicant’s research project must be primarily in the area of cardiovascular sciences. Relevance to cardiovascular science will be determined by the committee which evaluates all applications.
  5. Applicants should not have completed more than four years of their PhD studies at the time of application. If you have more than four years of doctoral education you are not eligible for this award.
  6. All applicants must have applied for OGS and/or QEII-GSST awards. If the applicant is not eligible for one of these awards, a written statement should accompany the application.
  7. If the applicant has, is awarded, or is offered an OGS, QEII-GSST or other major award, the student becomes ineligible for a HSRLCE award. They must accept the external award and forfeit the HSRLCE award.
  8. Limited funds may preclude the awarding of funding to all excellent applicants. The Centre reserves the right to limit the number of awards given to students of a single investigator to one per investigator.
  9. In the case of multiple applications in a single calendar year from the same laboratory, we request the principal investigator limit the number of applications per lab to two. The investigator must also rank the applicants from his or her laboratory to indicate priority for funding. These rankings will be used secondarily to the criteria of excellence.

Terms and Conditions of Awards

Duration of Support:

Awards will be made for a period of twelve consecutive months. There is no limit to the number of years that an applicant may compete for an HSRLCE studentship, but the individual must re-apply each year. It is expected that candidates will show good progress in their studies to be awarded a HSRLCE studentship in successive years. Awards will commence on the later of September 1, 2025 or the start date of the awardee’s entry into his or her MSc or PhD program (not later than January 1, 2026).

Location of Tenure:

Awardees must be enrolled in a full time MSc or PhD research-based program with the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto (Faculty of Medicine).

Stipend:

The annual stipend for studentship awards will be $15,000. Non-discretionary benefits are not included in the HSRLCE studentship and are the responsibility of the student’s supervisor.

Important Dates:

  • Applications are due on May 30, 2025 at 11:59 pm. Late or incomplete submissions will not be accepted.
  • Funding will begin in September 2025

Click here to download the HSRLCE Studentship 2025-2026-Applicant-Section form

Click here to download the HSRLCE Studentship 2025-2026-Referee-Section form

Application details:

A complete application will consist of:

(A) –  A complete electronic copy in PDF* format which includes:
1 – A completed HSRLCE studentship application form (reference to be emailed separately in PDF format by referee)
2 – Official e-transcripts or paper transcripts for your undergraduate and, if applicable, graduate studies. Unofficial web transcripts are not accepted. If requesting paper transcripts, have them sent directly to you. You may open the envelope to scan and include them in your PDF application.
3 – Evidence that you applied for external awards (OGS and/or QEII-GSST)

*  All the components of the application should be combined into one PDF file

(B) – Referee section (from one reference) emailed directly to hsrl.centre@utoronto.ca.

General instructions for submitting an application:

  1. Do not lock the PDF for editing
  2. All attached pages must conform to the following format restrictions:
    – Text must be no smaller than twelve point
    – No condensed formatting is allowed

Application should be submitted electronically to:

Email: hsrl.centre@utoronto.ca

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