The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) is disputing the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) claim that one of its top priorities is research into the causes of the health inequities bedevilling ...

As the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) prepared for a July 13 meeting with 47 scientists opposed to sweeping reforms to its granting procedures, questions were arising about the ...

The final report of the International Peer Review Expert Panel has now been received and accepted by CIHR Governing Council. We are pleased to share it publicly today. Launched in September 2016, the ...

The Canadian Institutes for Health Research has concluded that new national guidelines for prescribing opioids were based on sound scientific evidence despite a conflict of interest between one of the ...

This is to inform you that I am stepping down as Chief Scientific Officer and Vice-President, Research, Knowledge Translation and Ethics effective this Friday, March 31, 2017. As you know, I have ...

Canada's health scientists are furious. Many have joined together in a virtual scream of frustration, as they watch the system they depend on for science funding crack under the pressure of a series ...

Dr. Alan Bernstein, President of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), announced today a new randomized controlled trial policy that will require all CIHR funded clinical trials to ...

Young scientists will be the hardest hit by changes to the way research funds are distributed through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, according to a McGill University researcher and ...

A program that helped Ottawa scientist Jean-Simon Diallo take potentially life-saving research from his lab to the commercial world is being shut down by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Digital Science, a technology company serving stakeholders across the research ecosystem, is pleased to announce that the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has chosen Altmetric and ...

CIHR is Canada’s major health research funding agency. It was established in 2000 under the authority of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Act, as an independent government agency. According ...

A star University of Saskatchewan professor has lost the country’s top research position in Indigenous health after accusations she fabricated her Indigenous identity. The Canadian Institutes of ...