Under the reforms, CIHR essentially obliterated its array
of existing grant programs, replacing them with a regime that essentially awards two
types of grants: «Foundation scheme»
grants that provided $ 38,800 to $ 1.16 million annually for up to 7 years for work on more open - ended research (with duration and size pegged to how «established» a researcher was); and «Project scheme»
grants of $ 38,800 to $ 581,000 annually for up to 5 years for more focused research projects.