Brandi Povitz

Brandi Povitz is a Research Grant Development Officer at the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine. She has more than 10 years experience supporting researchers in developing and submitting competitive grant applications. Brandi joined the Cumming Schol of Medicine’s Grant Development Office in 2019, where she was tasked with establishing resources and a training program to help new investigators improve their grant development skills and knowledge. In addition to running a 12-month grant development training program and providing dedicated support to new investigators, Brandi also supports new and established investigators in applying to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant competition. Brandi is an active member of the Canadian Association of Research Administrators where she helped establish and co-leads a monthly grant facilitators journal club and is a 2025 SRAI Future of the Field and 2024 CARA Innovation Award recipient.