PSI Executive Director Samuel Moore will now be hosting virtual office hours for the general public through Zoom, occurring on select Tuesday mornings from 11:00 AM to 11:30 AM (Eastern Standard Time). Available meeting dates will be posted at the beginning of each month on the PSI Twitter account.

If you have any inquiries about our grants programs, application procedures, or general inquiries, feel free to use these virtual office hours as an opportunity to drop in for a one-on-one chat. These virtual office hours were created so that grantees, applicants, and reviewers with longer-form inquiries can have any outstanding questions answered.

To join the Zoom meeting room, click the hyperlink below or enter the meeting code below into your Zoom app.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84520912698
Zoom Meeting ID: 845 2091 2698

If assistance is needed, please see this guide from Zoom support with detailed instructions on how to join a Zoom meeting room, or email psif@psifoundation.org.

PSI Launches the 2024 Competition for the PSI Graham Farquharson Knowledge Translation Fellowship

PSI Foundation is very pleased to announce the 2024 competition for the PSI Graham Farquharson Knowledge Translation Fellowship. This Fellowship is intended to provide salary support for a new investigator who has demonstrated the ability to successfully complete high impact knowledge translation research. The Fellowship funds, dedicated to salary support, must protect at least 50% of the Fellow’s time to conduct such research.

Please note: Knowledge translation must be the fundamental purpose of this Fellowship and must be demonstrated in the application.

Amount and Duration of Funding

This program offers two options for a funding timeline for salary support: A maximum of $150,000 per year for two years; OR a maximum of $100,000 per year for three years.

Please note: the award is intended to protect at least 50% of the fellow’s time to undertake research, regardless of whether the award is taken over two or three years.

Eligibility of Candidate

For the 2024 competition, PSI has set the eligibility criteria for candidates as follows:

The candidate for the Fellowship must be either:

• Within six (6) years of their first academic appointment and have demonstrated potential for high impact research work
  • Please note: PSI has adjusted this eligibility requirement in recognition of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
• Dedicating at least 50% of a full-time schedule to the Fellowship
• A practising physician with a College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) licensed M.D. having direct patient care responsibilities and an academic appointment, thus eligible to apply for their own research grants as an independent investigator.

OR

• A clinical fellow in Ontario who is a practising physician having direct patient care responsibilities, with a supervisor who has an academic appointment and that can provide the necessary research supervision and infrastructure (including administering the grant at the sponsoring institution). A letter of support from this supervisor must be included in the application.

Important Information in Funding Guidelines

The Funding Guidelines contain important information regarding the award, including PSI’s definition of knowledge translation, sponsoring institution requirements, and funding criteria.

Please review this document before applying.

How to Apply

Similar to the previous years, PSI is launching the 2024 competition through a Letter of Intent (LOI) process. Please note that for this competition, applicants are required to submit their applications directly to PSI, not through the institution.

We require all applicants to submit the completed LOI directly to PSI via the PSI Online Grants Management System (https://psifoundation.smartsimple.ca/) by June 5th, 2023 at 5pm EST. LOIs will be reviewed by the PSI Grants Committee in July/August 2023.

PSI will invite successful applicants to submit full applications by November 6th, 2023 at 5pm EST, which will undergo internal review for a final funding decision in December 2023.

Questions?

Please contact the PSI Office to discuss any questions you may have about submitting an application for funding.

PSI acknowledges that mid-career can be a challenging time for physician researchers. During this phase, there are often additional academic roles and responsibilities including committee work, leadership positions, and mentoring of junior investigators, while clinical work continues. PSI recognizes the importance in supporting this phase of an investigator’s trajectory.

PSI Launches the 2024 Competition for the PSI Graham Farquharson Knowledge Translation Fellowship

PSI Foundation is very pleased to announce the 2024 competition for the PSI Mid-Career Knowledge Translation Fellowship. This Fellowship is intended to provide salary support for a mid-career physician researcher in Ontario who has demonstrated the ability to successfully complete high-impact knowledge translation research. The Fellowship funds, dedicated to salary support, must protect at least 50% of the Fellow’s time to conduct such research.

Please note: Knowledge translation must be the fundamental purpose of this Fellowship and must be demonstrated in the application.

Amount and Duration of Funding

Total Support

This program offers two options for a funding timeline for salary support:

A maximum of $400,000 over two years;

OR

A maximum of $400,000 over three years.

The award is intended to protect at least 50% of the fellow’s time to undertake research, regardless of whether the award is taken over two or three years.

Matching Funding Requirements

The sponsoring institution is required to fund 50% of the total award.

For example, if the fellow requests a total support of $400,000 over two years, then PSI will fund $200,000 over two years ($100,000 per year) and the institution is required to co-fund $200,000 over two years ($100,000 per year).

Eligibility

For the 2024 competition, the candidate for the Fellowship must be:

• A practicing physician in Ontario with a College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario licensed M.D. having direct patient care responsibilities and an academic appointment, thus eligible to apply for their own research grants as an independent investigator
• Within six (6) to fifteen (15) years of their first academic appointment and have demonstrated potential for high impact research work
• Dedicating at least 50% of a full-time schedule to the Fellowship

Important Information in Funding Guidelines

The Funding Guidelines contain important information regarding the award, including PSI’s definition of knowledge translation, matching funding requirements, and funding criteria.

Please review this document before applying.

How to Apply

PSI is launching the 2024 competition through a Letter of Intent (LOI) process. Please note that for this competition, applicants are required to submit their applications directly to PSI, not through their institution.

We require all applicants to submit the completed LOI directly to PSI via the PSI Online Grants Management System (https://psifoundation.smartsimple.ca/) by June 5th, 2023 at 5pm EST. LOIs will be reviewed by the PSI Grants Committee in July/August 2023.

PSI will invite successful applicants to submit full applications, which will undergo internal review for a final funding decision in December 2023.

Questions?

Please contact the PSI Office to discuss any questions you may have about submitting an application for funding.

The PSI Visiting Scholars Program is now open to all eligible medical universities, hospitals, and research institutes in Ontario.

PSI’s Visiting Scholar Program aims to support specific priorities identified by a given hospital/research institute in Ontario and PSI’s Grants Committee. This program provides funds ($15,000 per year) for a hospital/research institute in Ontario to attract an external expert to address such priorities.

For more information, email psif@psifoundation.org or check out the brochure for the PSI Visiting Scholar Program.

PSI Launches the 2023 PSI Research Trainee Award

PSI Foundation is excited to announce the launch of the 2023 PSI Research Trainee Award. The primary aim of this award is to provide highly qualified candidates with clinically applicable research training opportunities and support.

Please note: this funding opportunity is not an additional PSI operating grant. Research training must be the fundamental purpose of this award and must be demonstrated in the application.

Eligibility of Candidate

The candidate for the award must be:

• An M.D. licensed by College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) in a Ph.D or MSc. program at an Ontario university

OR

• A trainee in a combined M.D./Ph.D or MSc. program at an Ontario university

OR

• A trainee in the Clinician Investigator Program (CIP) at an Ontario university

Amount and Duration of Funding

A maximum of $25,000 per year for two (2) years is available from PSI.

Please note: sponsoring institutions are required to co-fund 50% of the amount requested from PSI. For example, if the fellow requests $20,000 per year from PSI, then the sponsoring institution must provide $10,000 per year.

Important Information in Funding Guidelines

The Funding Guidelines contain important information regarding the award. Please review this document before applying.

How to Apply

Similar to previous years, each of Ontario’s six medical universities may submit up to two candidates; therefore, all applications must be submitted through the medical university. The deadline for medical universities to submit their applications to PSI is July 25th, 2022 at 5pm EST.

Please contact the medical university research office regarding internal application process/deadlines. Medical universities must submit their applications to PSI via PSI online grants management system. Please see Tips & Resources – PSI Foundation for instruction manual on how to navigate the system.

PSI acknowledges that mid-career can be a challenging time for physician researchers. During this phase, there are often additional academic roles and responsibilities including committee work, leadership positions, and mentoring of junior investigators, while clinical work continues. PSI recognizes the importance in supporting this phase of an investigator’s trajectory.

PSI Foundation is very pleased to announce a new funding opportunity: 2023 PSI Mid-Career Knowledge Translation (KT) Fellowship. This Fellowship is intended to provide salary support for a mid-career physician researcher in Ontario who has demonstrated the ability to successfully complete high-impact knowledge translation research. The Fellowship funds, dedicated to salary support, must protect at least 50% of the Fellow’s time to conduct such research.

Amount and Duration of Funding

Total Support

This program offers two options for a funding timeline for salary support:

A maximum of $400,000 over two years;

OR

A maximum of $400,000 over three years.

The award is intended to protect at least 50% of the fellow’s time to undertake research, regardless of whether the award is taken over two or three years.

Matching Funding Requirements

The sponsoring institution is required to fund 50% of the total award.

For example, if the fellow requests a total support of $400,000 over two years, then PSI will fund $200,000 over two years ($100,000 per year) and the institution is required to co-fund $200,000 over two years ($100,000 per year).

Eligibility

For this competition, the candidate for the Fellowship must be:

• A practicing physician in Ontario with a College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario licensed M.D. having direct patient care responsibilities and an academic appointment, thus eligible to apply for their own research grants as an independent investigator
• Within five (5) to fifteen (15) years of their first academic appointment and have demonstrated potential for high impact research work
• Dedicating at least 50% of a full-time schedule to the Fellowship

Important Information in Funding Guidelines

The Funding Guidelines contain important information regarding the award, including PSI’s definition of knowledge translation, matching funding requirements, and funding criteria. Please review this document before applying.

Please note: Knowledge translation must be the fundamental purpose of this Fellowship and must be demonstrated in the application. This is funding opportunity is not an additional PSI operating grant.

How to Apply

PSI is launching this competition through a Letter of Intent (LOI) process. Applicants are required to submit their applications directly to PSI.

We require all applicants to submit the completed LOI directly to PSI via the PSI Online Grants Management System by June 1st, 2022 at 5pm EST. LOIs will be reviewed by the PSI Grants Committee in July 2022.

PSI will invite successful applicants to submit full applications, which will undergo internal review for a final funding decision in December 2022.

Questions?

Please contact the PSI Office to discuss any questions you may have about submitting an application for funding.

Knowledge translation research aims at transitioning research discoveries to the real world to improve health outcomes. The PSI Graham Farquharson Knowledge Translation Fellowship – valued at $300,000 for over two or three years – helps protect a promising clinician’s research time, allowing the Fellow to undertake high-impact translational research in Ontario.

5 Clinician Researchers Awarded with the 2022 PSI Graham Farquharson Knowledge Translation Fellowship

PSI Foundation is pleased to name five clinician researchers as the 2022 PSI Graham Farquharson Knowledge Translation Fellowship recipients:

Dr. Imaan Bayoumi – Queen’s University (Recipient Biography)

Dr. Andrea Gershon – Sunnybrook Research Institute (Recipient Biography)

Dr. Shawn Mondoux – McMaster University (Recipient Biography)

Dr. Brodie Nolan – St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto (Recipient Biography)

Dr. Derek Roberts – University of Ottawa (Recipient Biography)

Please visit their recipient biographies for more information on each of these Fellows and how they will be using PSI funds to conduct high-impact knowledge translation research. We thank all stakeholders for supporting PSI with the 2022 competition.

About the 2022 PSI Graham Farquharson Knowledge Translation Fellowship Competition

In May 2021, PSI launched the 2022 competition through a Letter of Intent (LOI) process. This was PSI’s first time launching this award through such process, which opened up the competition to more stakeholders by allowing candidates to directly apply to PSI.

The LOIs were reviewed by an internal sub-committee in late August 2021; successful applicants were invited to submit their full applications to PSI. Full applications were reviewed by the PSI Grants Committee in early December 2021.

The Committee approved $1.5 million in new funding for the 2022 PSI Graham Farquharson Knowledge Fellowship. Samuel Moore, Executive Director of PSI Foundation, comments: “This investment of $1.5 million in five Ontario clinician-researchers represents PSI’s largest commitment to any new program in decades. This is the largest amount that PSI has ever funded for this award in a single competition.”

One of the major enhancements made to this award for this competition was the stronger emphasis on knowledge translation. Throughout announcements, guidelines, and application forms for this award, PSI had repeatedly stated that knowledge translation must be the fundamental purpose of this Fellowship and must be demonstrated in the application.

PSI Foundation’s Commitment to Funding Knowledge Translation Research

Since the launch of this award in 2012, PSI invested $5.7 million in funding the PSI Graham Farquharson Knowledge Translation Fellowship. Together with other awards including the 2020 Mental Health Knowledge Translation Fellowship, PSI has invested a total of $6.3 million in knowledge translation research, providing salary support and protecting the research time of 21 clinician researchers in Ontario.

This funding portfolio demonstrates PSI’s strong commitment to support the physician of Ontario to advance translational research in Ontario.

“I am so proud of PSI’s commitment to knowledge translation by supporting the research programs of physicians in Ontario,” says Samuel Moore. “I look forward to seeing the tremendous impact these clinician-researchers make on the health care system and for all of us through their research.”

PSI has funded research in many surgical and medical areas resulting in changes to clinical bedside practice. PSI’s investment in knowledge translation research is one of the pillars in achieving its mission of improving the health of all Ontarians.

PSI Launches the 2022 Competition for the PSI Research Trainee Award

PSI Foundation is very excited to announce the 2022 competition for the PSI Research Trainee Award. The primary aim of this fellowship is to provide highly qualified Medical Doctors (M.D.) with clinically applicable research training opportunities and support.

Please note: This funding opportunity is not an additional PSI operating grant. PSI encourages candidates to apply for PSI’s operating grants, such as Resident Research and New Investigator Research grants.

Eligibility

Applicants must either:

• Be an M.D. in a Ph.D or MSc. program at an Ontario university

OR

• In a combined M.D./Ph.D or MSc. program at an Ontario university

OR

• In the Clinician Investigator Program (CIP)

Amount and Duration of Funding

A maximum of $25,000 per year for two (2) years is available from PSI.

Please note: sponsoring institutions are required to co-fund 50% of the amount requested from PSI. For example, if the fellow requests $20,000 per year from PSI, then the sponsoring institution must provide $10,000 per year.

Important Information in Funding Guidelines

The Funding Guidelines contain important information regarding the award. Please review this document before applying.

How to Apply

Similar to previous years, each of Ontario’s six medical universities may submit up to two candidates; therefore, all applications must be submitted through the medical university. The deadline for medical universities to submit their applications to PSI is August 9th, 2021 at 5pm EST.

Please contact the medical university research office regarding internal application process/deadlines. Medical universities must submit their applications to PSI via PSI online grants management system.

PSI Launches the 2022 Competition for the PSI Graham Farquharson Knowledge Translation Fellowship

PSI Foundation is very pleased to announce the 2022 competition for the PSI Graham Farquharson Knowledge Translation Fellowship. This Fellowship is intended to provide salary support for a new/mid-career investigator who has demonstrated the ability to successfully complete high impact knowledge translation research. The Fellowship funds, dedicated to salary support, must protect at least 50% of the Fellow’s time to conduct such research.

Please note: Knowledge translation must be the fundamental purpose of this Fellowship and must be demonstrated in the application.

Amount and Duration of Funding

This program offers two options for a funding timeline for salary support: A maximum of $150,000 per year for two years; OR a maximum of $100,000 per year for three years.

Please note: the award is intended to protect at least 50% of the fellow’s time to undertake research, regardless of whether the award is taken over two or three years.

Eligibility

For the 2022 competition, PSI has modified the eligibility criteria as follows:

The candidate for the Fellowship must be either:

• Within fifteen (15) years of their first academic appointment and have demonstrated potential for high impact research work
• dedicating at least 50% of a full-time schedule to the Fellowship
• a practising physician having direct patient care responsibilities and an academic appointment, thus eligible to apply for her/his own research grants as an independent investigator.

OR

• a fellow who is a practising physician having direct patient care responsibilities, with a supervisor who has an academic appointment and that can provide the necessary research supervision and infrastructure (including administering the grant at the sponsoring institution).  A letter of support from this supervisor must be included in the application.

Important Information in Funding Guidelines

The Funding Guidelines contain important information regarding the award, including PSI’s definition of knowledge translation, sponsoring institution requirements, and funding criteria. Please review this document before applying.

How to Apply

PSI is launching the 2022 competition through a Letter of Intent (LOI) process. Please note that for the 2022 competition, applicants are required to submit their applications directly to PSI, not through the institution.

We require all applicants to submit the completed LOI directly to PSI via the PSI Online Grants Management System (https://psifoundation.smartsimple.ca/) by July 16th, 2021 at 5pm EST.

LOIs will be reviewed by the PSI Grants Committee in August 2021. PSI will invite successful applicants to submit full applications by November 8th, 2021 5pm EST, which will undergo internal review for a final funding decision in December 2021.

Questions?

Please contact the PSI Office to discuss any questions you may have about submitting an application for funding.