Opportunities
In search of: researchers, patients and community partners
TRANSFORM HF is set up to fund research into heart failure care and prevention that has translational potential and patient-centered design. We also fund projects by trainees focused on new digital technologies and community engagement to advance health equity.
This funding drives scientific, professional, entrepreneurial, and patient engagement or Indigenous health training and mentorship to get novel projects off the ground.
Open competitions
Closed competitions
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Collaboration Grants
The 2025 competition has closed.
TRANSFORM HF’s Collaboration Starter Grants (CSGs) encourage and support our members in forming collaborations with new partners – either within or outside the TRANSFORM HF network – on early-stage projects that advance our mission of advancing equitable access to high quality heart failure care through digital innovation.
Three types of supports are available:
- Grants up to $10K for proposal development meetings, collaborative project activities, patient or Knowledge Keeper compensation and facilitation.
- Grants up to $10K for scoping and preliminary project research and data collection.
- Grants up to $10K for research proposal writing and editing.
Trainee Awards
Training the next generation of heart failure digital health leaders
The 2024 competition has closed.
Our Trainee Awards support University of Toronto Master’s, PhD, and Postdoctoral students who are conducting research that advances equitable care and incorporates lived experience. Research must be centered on one or more the following themes:
- Field-ready point-of-care diagnostics
- Wearables and embedded sensors / remote monitoring
- Data science innovation in heart failure prevention, treatment, or care
- Digital health implementation
Seed Grants
The 2025 Joint EMHSeed and XSeed Program has closed.
The Joint EMHSeed and XSeed Program is an interdivisional research funding program designed to promote multi-disciplinary research and catalyze new innovative partnerships between a coPI from the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering (FASE) and a coPI from outside Engineering.
As a partner division, TRANSFORM HF is offering funding for up to two 2-year collaborative projects.
Application Process:
Applications, including all supporting documents, are due by 12:00pm on Monday, March 10, 2025.
Please see the program overview for full details and use this application form to apply.
Undergraduate Summer Research Program
The 2025 USRP competition has closed.
Students in the TRANSFORM HF Undergraduate Summer Research Program (USRP) will have the opportunity to train alongside our multidisciplinary community of researchers to help address the grand challenge of inequity in heart failure care. Students will gain firsthand experience in the development of innovative technologies and the co-creation of proactive, personalized, and decentralized models of heart failure care.
Students participating in the USRP will receive an award of up to $6,000, which must be supplemented by a $2,000 contribution from their research supervisors to ensure a minimum total stipend of $8,000 for a period of 16 weeks.
Eligibility & Applications
To be eligible, students must be registered at a Canadian academic institution as a full or part-time undergraduate student at the time of application. Up to two USRP awards are reserved for Indigenous students.
To apply, students must secure two faculty supervisors within TRANSFORM HF (one of which must be Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering (FASE)-affiliated), and work with them to complete and submit an application form.
To facilitate this process, students may either:
- Consult a list of established projects seeking an undergraduate summer student, and reach out to the identified contact for more information OR
- Consult a list of faculty within the TRANSFORM HF network, and reach out to faculty members directly to inquire about potential projects. FASE faculty are highlighted in yellow.
Applications are due March 9, 2025 at 5:00pm EST.
Patient Partners
We need to take the opportunity to be more than a ‘patient.’ To use our voice so our expertise and experience informs and improves the quality of heart failure care.
Welcoming people who live with heart failure to join our mission.
TRANSFORM HF prioritizes new innovations in care that make actual differences on the ground. We need the help of patients, caregivers, and family members to plan the best research projects, test and conceptualize new technologies, participate in events, and explore how heart failure care should be improved.
Discover our resources and training for people with lived experience and explore current opportunities to participate in research related to heart failure.