Postdoctoral Fellowships

To qualify for an Alberta Innovates Recruitment Fellowship, all Fellows must:

• Have completed a PhD or another relevant doctoral degree (e.g. Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Pharmacy, Doctor of Dental Surgery, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine) at the time of award implementation. Universities may consider additional equivalencies that are relevant to the program priority areas on a case-by-case basis;
• Be an incoming postdoctoral appointee to one of the Applicant institutions (i.e., the award term for a Recruitment Fellowship must start within the first six months of Fellows’ postdoctoral appointment);
• Have applied no more than once before for a Fellowship from Alberta Innovates;
• Have been shortlisted for funding consideration through any one of the following ways:
  • Scored among the top 15% of Fellows in a fellowship competition run by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, or the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (the “Tri-Agency”) for the proposed project, or
  • Ranked outstanding in a university-based fellowship competition or triaging process.

To qualify for an Alberta Innovates Postdoctoral Fellowship, all Fellows must:

• Have completed a PhD or another relevant doctoral degree (e.g. Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Pharmacy, Doctor of Dental Surgery, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine) at the time of award implementation. Universities may consider additional equivalencies that are relevant to the program priority areas on a case-by-case basis;
• Have accepted or started a postdoctoral appointment at one of the Applicant institutions;
• Be less than five years into a postdoctoral appointment at one of the Applicant institutions;
• Have applied no more than once before for a Fellowship from Alberta Innovates;
• Have been shortlisted for project relevancy review through any one of the following ways:
  • Scored among the top 25% of Fellows in a Fellowship competition run by a member of the Tri- Agency, or
  • Ranked Excellent to Outstanding in a university-based Fellowship competition or triaging process.

To qualify for an Alberta Innovates Enhancement Fellowship, all Fellows must:

• Have completed a PhD or another relevant doctoral degree (e.g. Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Pharmacy, Doctor of Dental Surgery, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine) at the time of award implementation. Universities may consider additional equivalencies that are relevant to the program priority areas on a case-by-case basis;
• Have accepted or started a postdoctoral appointment at one of the Applicant institutions;
• Be less than five years into a postdoctoral appointment at one of the Applicant institutions;
• Have applied no more than once before for a Fellowship from Alberta Innovates;
• Have been shortlisted for project relevancy review through any one of the following ways:
  • Scored among the top 35% of Fellows in a fellowship competition run by a member of the Tri- Agency, or
  • Ranked Good to Very-Good in a university-based fellowship competition.