About the Grant
The Graham Seed Fund (GSF) is designed to broadly encourage innovative health-care solutions to challenges of today and tomorrow. The GSF seeks to leverage and build health system partnerships by providing resources for collaborating directly with a full range of health providers and clinicians. It is anticipated that this collaborative, interdisciplinary model will help to quickly advance solutions for challenging areas in health technology.
This five-year initiative (2022-2026) responds to one of University of Waterloo’s strategic priorities of creating a globally recognized hub for innovative and transformative health technologies. With funding made possible from the J.W. Graham Trust Endowment Fund, the GSF is primarily intended to cover the cost of hiring highly qualified personnel (HQP), with the aim of leveraging the seed funding to generate preliminary research results that can be used in funding applications to external granting agencies and organizations. As it has evolved, the Graham Seed Fund will be the primary means of supporting University of Waterloo initiatives as part of our participation in the Care Next coalition.
This opportunity is for all faculties at the University of Waterloo, with a preference for early and mid-career researchers to lead the applications
