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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
- The program is open to both Canadian citizens and international students who wish to undertake graduate training at the University of Toronto.
- 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.
- 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. - 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Stipend:
The annual stipend for studentship awards is $15,000 for a 12-month period. Non-discretionary benefits are not included in the HSRLCE studentship and are the responsibility of the student’s supervisor.