LevMax-Health

Tri-Agency Spring 2026 Competition

This current opportunity seeks high-quality applications from Alberta-based post-secondary academic institutions that have been submitted to Tri-agency competitions and will strengthen Alberta’s Health and Life Sciences ecosystem.

Tri-Agency includes Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), and Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), as well as CIHR Institutes.   

This specific funding opportunity supports three priority areas:

1. Research Commercialization – Projects focused on advancing health technologies with strong commercial potential that enable personalized health. Universal prevention is not eligible.

2. Clinical Trials – Projects focused on either:

   1. Developing enabling tools, methodologies, and solutions to accelerate the conduct of clinical trials in Alberta (e.g., AI-enabled protocol development); OR

   2. Clinical trials piloting innovations that aim to provide benefits to Albertans with at least one trial site in Alberta

3. Health System Transformation – Projects focused on either:
   1. Implementation readiness – Developing novel care models or advancing the implementation of innovative care models with a pathway to adoption in Alberta. Applications are recommended to include evidence of appropriate health system stakeholder engagement for implementation; OR
   2. System enablement readiness – Strengthening system-level conditions that enable uptake of innovations (e.g., policy, data, reimbursement, procurement).

Objectives of LevMax-Health are to:

• Accelerate research commercialization, market readiness, clinical evidence, implementation readiness, and health system-level adoption efforts in Alberta.
• Support research and innovation clients in Alberta.
• Leverage partnerships towards a healthy economy and population in Alberta.

Funding 

The LevMax-Health program will contribute to the project’s original Tri-agency application budget, up to a maximum of $750,000 CAD for a maximum term of 36 months. Final decisions on budget and term are at the sole discretion of Alberta Innovates.