Long COVID Seed Funding 2025

Seed Funding Application Details

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The Long COVID Web Seed Funding call for proposals aims to support Canadian-led research studies that seek to accelerate our understanding and improve care delivery and treatment of Long COVID. This funding opportunity has been specifically designed to provide seed funding to generate evidence that lays the foundation for future research and applications to other funding opportunities or to perform and establish necessary fundamental work that enables innovative research.

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Preference will also be given to those that address the sub-priorities in Appendix A in the “Call for Proposal”. For full application details, please refer to the downloadable documents below.

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​Funds Available

Up to $1.2 million CAD is available for this call. With funding amounts of up to $25,000 (4-8 awards), up to $50,000 (6-10 awards), and up to $100,000 (4-6 awards) to support 1-year projects.

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Eligibility

For the proposed research to be eligible it must fulfill each of the following points:

1. Be a registered member with Long COVID Web (https://airtable.com/shrbiqADpoCny2EeT).

2. Be eligible under tri-agency guidelines to be a principal applicant.

3. The nominated principal investigator/s (NPI/s) of any proposed research can only submit 1 application to this competition (while NPI/s can be co-investigator/s on other applications).

4. Emerging scholars and early-career researchers are encouraged to apply.

5. Understand that funds will be transferred to an organization eligible to hold CIHR funds; this organization will ensure and report that funds were used for CIHR-eligible expenses.

6. The researchers will acknowledge the Long COVID Web partnership and funding in all related presentations and publications.

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1. Call for Proposal

2. Application Form

3. Budget Form

4. Appendix C