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Kaye Competition

The Kaye Competition is a partnership between the University Hospital Foundation, the University of Alberta Hospital (inclusive of the Kaye Edmonton Clinic and the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute), made possible through a $30 million donation from Mr. Donald Kaye to the Foundation in 2012 — one of the largest donations in the history of Canadian healthcare philanthropy.

The annual competition awards individuals or collaborative teams pursuing research, innovation or quality improvement programs and projects that will establish new approaches to patient care.

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Project budgets can range from $25,000 to $250,000

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The Kaye Competition is made possible thanks to a $30 million gift from Mr. Donald Kaye

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75% of funding is restricted to cancer, pulmonary, diabetes and neurology.

Competition criteria

The annual competition awards individuals or collaborative teams pursuing research, innovation or quality improvement programs and projects that will establish new approaches to patient care.

Applicants may include physicians, nurses and allied health staff of the University of Alberta Hospital (UAH), which is inclusive of the Kaye Edmonton Clinic (KEC) and Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute (MAZ), and students or researchers in health disciplines from another faculty through joint application with an affiliate of the UAH. The research or quality improvement program or project must directly impact the care of patients at the UAH.

Application and review process

Step 1

Download and review the guidelines. (Download PDF)
Please review the guidelines and eligibility requirements thoroughly.

Step 2*

Visit Kaye Competition 2025 – University Hospital Foundation to apply and submit your Letter of Intent (LOI). Deadline for submission of LOI is November 17th, 2025 at 4:00 p.m. MST

Step 3

Steering Committee reviews and evaluates applications.

Step 4*

Successful LOI applicants will be notified and invited to submit Full Proposals.

Step 5

Competition winners will be notified in June 2026.

* Internal organizational consultation deadline applies – see guidelines for details

2025 Kaye Competition Awardees

* 2025 recipients are announced in 2026

  • Rahima Bhanji, Multidisciplinary Cardiometabolic Risk Reduction Care Program for Liver Transplant Recipients: A Pilot Implementation Study
  • Farhad Peerani, Pilot Feasibility and Cost Analyses of Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion in Patients with Non-Valvular Atrial Fibrillation and Refractory Gastrointestinal Bleeding
  • Ashley Hyde, Bridging the Wait: Co-designing an Early Education Pathway for Cardiac Rehabilitation Patients at the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute
  • Adil Ladak, Reclaiming Quality of Life after Limb Loss: A Randomized Comparison of Novel Surgical Techniques to Treat Nerve Pain After Major Limb Amputation
  • Tejas Sankar, Ultra-early Gamma Knife Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Trigeminal Neuralgia (URGEnt-TN)
  • Benjamin Adam, Improving Lung Cancer Diagnosis through Systematic Evaluation of Immunostain Performance and Emerging Markers 
  • Shawn Wasilenko, Early Endoscopic Ultrasound Radiofrequency Ablation, in addition to Conventional Chemotherapy, for Treatment of Locally Advanced, Non-surgical, Pancreatic Cancer: A Randomized Feasibility and Safety Study
  • Joyce Lee, Evaluation of the Usability, Utility and Impact of the Digital App Delivery of ThrivePD Program on Intrinsic Capacity Domains in Patients and Caregivers Living with Parkinson Disease 

We extend our congratulations to each of these outstanding researchers and look forward to the impact their work will have on the future of health.