Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Pursuit Award 2025 for Phd Students – YOA

Deadline: August 29, 2025

Applications are open for the Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Pursuit Award 2025. This prestigious competitors acknowledges PhD college students and up to date doctoral graduates from around the globe for their excellent contributions to childhood incapacity analysis—enabling customized variations of a great life throughout the lifespan for all people with childhood-onset disabilities, acquired accidents and developmental variations, their households and communities.

Over the years, the Pursuit Awards have celebrated a few of the most promising younger minds within the subject—researchers who’ve, for occasion, explored how bodily exercise can profit youth with neurodevelopmental situations, or developed instruments to assist households make knowledgeable selections for youngsters dwelling with brachial plexus beginning damage.

Award

The high three candidates, chosen by an esteemed panel of scientists, employees and household leaders, shall be introduced at a ceremony held throughout the annual Bloorview Research Institute (BRI) Symposium on November 25-26, 2025.

• 1st place: $3,000
• 2nd place: $2,000
• third place: $1,000

The Pursuit Awards is made attainable by the beneficiant contributions of The Ward Family Foundation, Holland Bloorview Foundation donors, and the Bloorview Research Institute.

Eligibility

You are inspired to apply in case your PhD analysis focuses on pediatric incapacity, and you’re a:

• Current PhD scholar (lower than six months away from protection); OR
• Postdoctoral trainee (inside one 12 months of receiving PhD); OR
• Recent graduate (inside one 12 months of receiving their PhD).

Selection Criteria

Finalists shall be evaluated on:

• Academic excellence, together with tutorial coaching, expertise, and awards of distinction
• Research potential, together with originality, essential considering, innovation, and the flexibility to affect follow, coverage or analysis in childhood incapacity
• Knowledge translation, together with efforts to have interaction companions, disseminate findings, and collaborate throughout disciplines
• Research productiveness, together with the standard and amount of publications and shows

Finalists are anticipated to pre-document their shows for the annual BRI Research Symposium which is able to happen on November 25-26, 2025. It is predicted that finalists can be found to take part within the occasion.

Application

To apply for the 2025 Pursuit Award competitors, fill out the connected application and submit it as one PDF to [email protected] by Friday, August 29, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. EST.

Click here to download application form

For extra info, go to Pursuit Award.