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 is open.
TRANSFORM HF is offering Collaboration Starter Grants (CSGs) to 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.
Funding will be reserved for at least one CSG that seeks to explore opportunities in sustainable digital health (i.e., at the intersection of climate change, sustainability, and digital innovation in cardiovascular care).
Priority will be given to project proposals that were initiated during a TRANSFORM HF network meeting, that expand the network and its reach, and that are led by applicants who have not received previous CSG funding.
Application deadline: January 17, 2025 at 5:00pm EST
How to apply:
- Access and complete the Application Form
- Submit your application as a single PDF document via email to info@transformhf.ca by the deadline.
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 is open.
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.
Interested in learning more? FASE is hosting an information session on January 17, 2025, from 12:00-1:00pm to cover:
- PI Eligibility for each of the programs
- The application requirements and submission process
- Recommendations from the review committee
- Presentations from past successful applicants
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 2024 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.
To be eligible to apply, students must:
- Be registered at a Canadian academic institution as a full or part-time undergraduate student at the time of application.
- Be supervised by two faculty supervisors within TRANSFORM HF, one of which must be Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering (FASE) affiliated, to apply for this program.
Up to two USRP awards will be reserved for Indigenous students.
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. To that end, we encourage patients, caregivers and family members to get in touch with us. We need your help to plan the best research projects, test and conceptualize new technologies, participate in events, and explore how you think heart failure care should be improved.
We use the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research Patient Appreciation Policy to support our People with Lived Experience partners.
The following are opportunities for people with lived experience to participate in research related to heart failure:
TRANSFORM HF Peer Review Panels
TRANSFORM HF funds research and trainees focused on digital technologies for equitable access to high-quality personalized heart failure care. Our mission is also to enable patients to become more active in their own health and engage them in all of our programs.
Patients, caregivers and family members living with heart failure are integral members of our review panel to select funded projects and trainees. If you are interested in joining a panel, email info@transformhf.ca.