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CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars Program

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Research leaders of tomorrow

Accelerate your career.

Expand your network, collaborate across disciplines, and explore cutting-edge ideas with unrestricted research funding. Join our community of top researchers addressing the most important questions facing science and humanity. 

Applications for the CIFAR Azrieli Scholars program are accepted once annually. Applications are now closed for the 2021-2023 cohort. The 2022-2024 cohort will begin accepting applications in September 2021.

Contact us for more information.

The CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars program provides:


Interdisciplinary interactions

Pursuing the most exciting and important research questions requires scholars who can move beyond their own research areas to take a fresh look at a problem.

CIFAR helps early-career researchers think and work outside their silos by facilitating dialogue between diverse disciplines and immersing them in our research programs for a truly enriching experience.


Leadership development

Excellent management and communication skills will be key to success in the demanding and competitive world of research.

Through annual meetings of CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars from across CIFAR’s research programs, and additional learning experiences supported by the Love Family Leadership Development Fund, CIFAR creates a variety of training opportunities on themes related to leadership development.


Engagement in global communities

Tomorrow’s research leaders must effectively engage key stakeholders in their communities, in government, industry, or the general public to both inform and disseminate their work.

We provide early-career researchers opportunities to increase the impact of their research by interacting with leaders both within and outside of academia.

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Program Details

Here is what you need to know to apply.

Eligibility

Applicants may be based anywhere in the world, must hold a PhD (or equivalent) and be within the first five years of starting a full-time research position at an institution of higher education or research. Scholars' research interests must complement or contribute to the themes and goals of an eligible CIFAR research program.

NOTE: Postdoctoral fellows are not eligible to apply.

See the detailed program overview for full eligibility requirements.

 

What you will receive as a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar

A two-year term in a CIFAR research program, a global, interdisciplinary network of top-tier research leaders.

$100,000 CAD in unrestricted research support

Mentorship from a senior researcher within a CIFAR research program

Opportunities to network, collaborate and form a community with peers from diverse disciplines across CIFAR's research programs

Specialized leadership and communication skills training, and support to put your skills into action.

Program Details (PDF)
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Testimonials

The CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars program allows you to take your work to challenging new places.

Time and again, we hear from CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars that the two years in CIFAR programs are exciting, energizing, and transformative.

 

 

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The CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars program
makes bets on young faculty
just starting out on their careers,
and affords them opportunities that are unparalleled,
that allow you to catapult your ideas
as well as gain traction and communities
over an extended period of time.
The CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars program afforded me
an ability to execute on some of the vision
that I had for my laboratory
in areas that were not necessarily easy to get funded.
 
It was really refreshing to be in a virtual room
with a bunch of other scientists at my stage of career,
who are all unafraid to share where they are succeeding
but also where they are failing.
Being able to interface with these fantastic scientists
from all around the world,
not just here in the United States,
but who came from Europe and Asia to be at that meeting,
was really fantastic,
really expanded my global network in a very concrete
and tangible way.
 
The cross disciplinary nature of the CIFAR Azrieli program
is very unique.
It affected the way I think about projects and lab,
and the research direction that I'm taking the lab.
We are not only microbiologists, immunologists,
which is also two different fields in biology,
but also anthropologists and philosophers
and I really like the way we try to look for principles
in the fields and try to crosstalk between them.
 
By joining the CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars program,
I got to form friendships with other scholars
who live in different countries and continents.
We not only discuss science,
but we also discuss life and challenges that we all face
as early career academics.
And even though my time in this program
is coming to an end,
this friendship and bond that I have formed
with other CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars,
that will remain into the future.
Photo of  CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2018-2020, Humans & the Microbiome (Technion, Israel)

The cross-disciplinary nature of the CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars program is very unique. It affected the way I think about my projects and the directions I’m taking in my lab.

Naama Geva-Zatorsky CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2018-2020, Humans & the Microbiome (Technion, Israel)
Photo of  CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2017-2019, Child & Brain Development (University of Southern California, United States)

Being part of the CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars program means being able to interact with scholars from around the world at the same stage of career as you are. In those shared experiences you come out as a better human being, as well as a better scientist.

Brian Dias CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2017-2019, Child & Brain Development (University of Southern California, United States)
Photo of  CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2019-2021, Gravity & the Extreme Universe (University of Toronto, Canada)

This unique set of individuals and the support that I received helped me to raise my profile in the community so that I could start having the conversations that take me to challenging places, that push me and move me to new directions.

 

Renée Hložek CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2019-2021, Gravity & the Extreme Universe (University of Toronto, Canada)
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This program is generously supported by the Azrieli Foundation and the Love Family Leadership Development Fund.

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