Correcting the CIHR course

Tough on Crime? Pfizer and the CIHR.

The appointment of Dr. Bernard Prigent, vice-president and medical director of Pfizer Canada, to the Governing Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, outraged many Canadian health researchers. Pfizer has been a "habitual offender," persistently engaging in illegal and corrupt marketing practices, bribing physicians and suppressing adverse trial results. Since 2002 the company an...

CIHR to simplify open-funding programs.

CIHR hikes grants to young researchers.

Responding to protests from scientists and 15 university presidents, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has pledged at least $30 million for junior scientists in the 2016 Project Grants competition. This amounts to about 10% of the total grant money. CIHR has also agreed to a moratorium on any further reforms beyond the highly controversial suite of changes it introduced in 2014....

CIHR doubles support for clinical research.

CIHR excludes Aboriginal health in review.