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Arthritis Society Canada 2025 Training Graduate PhD Salary Award (TGP)

Arthritis Society Canada 2025 Training Graduate PhD Salary Award (TGP)

Salary awards are offered to graduate students who are undertaking full-time research training in an area of clear relevance to arthritis and Arthritis Society Canada's Strategic Plan 2020-2027: Accelerating Impact - Research Strategy which aims to identify research avenues that focus on areas of highest priority to patients and achieve the highest levels of scientific excellence and rigour.  Applications must focus on innovative research efforts in the following priority areas.

  • Arthritis pain research in:

    • Improving our understanding of the underlying mechanisms of pain

    • Translating basic science discoveries into practice

    • Improving techniques to measure pain

    • Developing new and more personalized treatment approaches

    • Alternative approaches to pain management including research on medical cannabis from basic science, clinical, health services and policy perspectives

    • Improving self-management tools and technology enablers to help manage and communicate about pain

  • Osteoarthritis (OA) research in:

    • Improving our understanding of what cause different forms of OA, including the underlying biological mechanisms and how the disease progresses

    • Understand sex and gender differences in patients with OA

    • Developing new and more personalized treatment approaches

    • Developing more effective self-management tools

    • Improving health services and systems

    • Reducing health disparities in vulnerable and hard-to-reach populations

  • Inflammatory arthritis (IA) research in:

    • Improving our understanding of what causes different forms of IA, including the underlaying biological mechanisms and how the disease progresses

    • Developing new and more personalized treatment approaches

    • Improving strategies to manage symptoms

    • Developing more effective methods to support patient-physician communications

    • Improving health services and systems

    • Reducing health disparities in vulnerable and hard-to-reach populations

  • Childhood arthritis research in:

    • Improving our understanding of what causes childhood arthritis, how to detect it earlier, and diagnose it most effectively

    • Developing new and more personalized therapies that are safe and effective

    • Innovations to improve transitions in care as children navigate from pediatric to adult healthcare settings and improve unique quality of life issues through other life changes (e.g., education, employment)

  • Work-related research in:

    • Providing a strong evidence base to inform arthritis-related workplace policies and accommodations

    • Ensuring that employees and employers have effective tools and resources to communicate how to manage chronic conditions in the workplace

    • The prevention of workplace disability and the most effective accommodations

About Arthritis Society Canada

Arthritis Society Canada is a national health charity, fueled by donors and volunteers, with a mission to fight the fire of arthritis with the fire of research, advocacy, innovation, information and support. Arthritis Society Canada is dedicated to extinguishing arthritis. We represent the six million Canadians living with arthritis today, and the millions more who are impacted or at risk.?  Fueled by the trust and support of our donors and volunteers, Arthritis Society Canada is fighting the fire of arthritis?with research, advocacy, innovation,?information?and support.?W... continue reading

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Training Graduate PhD Salary Award (TGP)

Application Deadline15 Apr 2025
Value$35,000
Country to studyCanada
TypePhD
SponsorArthritis Society Canada
GenderMen and Women

Aim and Benefits of Training Graduate PhD Salary Award (TGP)

Our research funding is always contingent on the generosity of our donors. 

The maximum award per application is $35,000 annually for up to three  years ($105,000 total). These awards are non-renewable. 

Please note the matching funds required for this program:

  • The program provides 50% of the salary award to successful applicants. The other 50% of the award funding must come from one or more partners (government, industry, NFP or academic institution) or be allocated from an existing research agency grant held by their supervisor.

  • Successful candidates will receive up to $17,500 annually from Arthritis Society Canada for this award.


Requirements for Training Graduate PhD Salary Award (TGP) Qualification

To be considered eligible for this award, applicants must:

  • Be engaged in full-time training in research in a Canadian graduate school program leading to a PhD;

  • Be within the first three years of a PhD training program at the time of the application deadline; and

  • Be working on a research project with clear relevance to the research priority areas in Arthritis Society Canada’s 2020-27 Research Strategy.

  • Not hold a competitive award, as of the September 1 start date, that exceeds the value of this award. 

Documents Required for Application

Applications must be submitted through Arthritis Society Canada’s online research grant portal and include the following components:

  • Scientific abstract (Max. 500 words)

  • Project description (Max. 2,500 words) 

  • References 

  • Relevance of the proposal to Arthritis Society Canada’s Research Strategy priority areas (Max. 250 words)

  • Lay summary sections (Max. 150 words per section)

  • Knowledge translation (KTE) plan sections (Max. 250 words per section)

Required attachments

  • Signature page (signed by the candidate, supervisor(s), department head and Host Institution)

  • Candidate and supervisor(s) Canadian Common CV (CIHR Biosketch - CIHR issued PIN required)

  • Timeline and milestones (1 pg. diagram/chart)

  • Official transcripts (Undergraduate and Graduate)

  • Two letters of support, including one from the candidate’s primary supervisor including confirmation that the trainee will devote at least 75% of their time to conducting the proposed research, providing an assessment of the candidate’s critical thinking, independence, perseverance, originality, organizational skills, interest in discovery, etc., value of the award to the candidate, the research environment, and details of the source of matching funding.  

Optional attachments

  • Appendices (Max. 5MB per document)



Application Deadline

April 15, 2025

How to Apply

A maximum of one application per trainee will be permitted in the competition. 

All submissions will be screened for completeness and eligibility. Note that incomplete applications by the deadline will be deemed ineligible and withdrawn from the competition. It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that applications are complete at the time of submission.

All applicants are strongly advised to read all program documentation listed. If you have any questions, please contact the research department.

For more details, visit Arthritis Society Canada webpage

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