The Canadian Institutes for Health Research has announced its 2016 Fall CIHR Project Grants, and 41 members of the Faculty of Medicine are among the awardees. Grant recipients were chosen through a competitive process.
2016 Fall CIHR Project Grant Recipients
The UBC Faculty of Medicine recipients and their project titles are:
Aslam Anis, Professor in the School of Population and Public Health
The pricing of generic drugs and its impact on market structure, competitiveness and security of supply, $241K for 3 years
Laura Arbour, Professor in the Department of Medical Genetics
Long QT syndrome in Northern British Columbia: Gene-gene interaction, life course differences, and implications for safe management, $677K for 4 years
Yossef Av-Gay, Professor in the Department of Medicine
Host-pathogen interaction directed therapies in Tuberculosis, $1M for 5 years
Marcel Bally, Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Copper Drug Complexes: Development of a novel class of drugs with significant potential for treatment of platinum insensitive cancers, $490K for 4 years
Hamideh Bayrampour, Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Practice
Pregnancy Specific Anxiety Scale (PSAS): Instrument Development and Psychometric Testing, $218K for 3 years
Lara Boyd, Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy
Characterizing Arm Recovery in People with Severe Stroke (CARPSS), $669K for 5 years
Jeffrey Brubacher, Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine
Evaluation of the effect of cannabis legalization on road safety, $845K for 5 years
Jeffrey Brubacher, Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine
Investigating Pharmacogenetic Mechanisms of Doxorubicin-Induced Cardiotoxicty in Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes, $581K for 5 years
Colin Collins, Professor in the Department of Urologic Sciences
Stromal Gene Expression Predicts And May Drive Metastasis in Prostate Cancer, $956K for 5 years
Mads Daugaard, Assistant Professor in the Department of Urologic Sciences
Regulation and function of chondroitin sulfate glycosaminoglycans in urologic cancers, $727K for 5 years
Quynh Doan, Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics
Evaluation of My-HEARTSMAP, a self-reporting youth mental health assessment & management tool, $589K for 3 years
Colin Dormuth, Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics
What works best to protect public health? An international comparison of post-market regulatory risk communication on prescription drugs, $1.2M for 4 years
Brad Hoffman, Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery
Determining the role of histone modifications in mediating transcriptional consistency in beta-cells and in diabetes pathogenesis, $753K for 5 years
Pamela Hoodless, Professor in the Department of Medical Genetics
Hippo Regulation of Hepatocyte Identity and Function, $960K for 5 years
James D. Johnson, Associate Professor in the Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences
Regulation of beta-cell proliferation by insulin production workload, $1.2M for 5 years
James C. Johnson, Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine
Sciences From Patient to Policy: Using data to drive TB elimination in Canada’s foreign born population, $1.2M for 3 years
Jayachandran Kizhakkedathu, Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Next Generation Antithrombotics: Safer Inhibitors for Thrombosis that Targets Procoagulant Polyanions, $918K for 5 years
Mieke Koehoorn, Professor in the School of Population and Public Health
Immigration and work disability in the Canadian context, $340K for 3 years
Megan Levings, Professor in the Department of Surgery
Tailoring Regulatory T cells for Transplantation Tolerance, $818K for 5 years
Christopher Loewen, Assistant Professor in the Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences
Targeting novel acid stress resistance mechanisms in cancer cell metabolism, $765K for 5 years
Christopher Loewen, Assistant Professor in the Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences
Targeting novel acid stress resistance mechanisms in cancer cell metabolism, $727K for 5 years
Matthew Lorincz, Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Genetics
Defining the Roles of the Overgrowth Syndrome Genes NSD1, Setd2 and EZH2 in Shaping the Epigenome and Transcriptome in Early Embryonic Development, $727K for 5 years
Calum E Macaulay, Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Co-registered multimodal optical imaging for the early detection and management of cancers of the vulva and cervix, $639K for 4 years
Louise Masse, Associate Professor in the School of Population and Public Health
A Good Start Matters: Do supportive childcare centre environments, policies and practices enhance physical activity?, $734K for 5 years
Louise Masse, Associate Professor in the School of Population and Public Health
Impact of transitioning to secondary schools on health behaviours associated with obesity and academic related outcomes: A socio-ecological perspective, $709K for 5 years
Joanne Matsubara, Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
An “Inducible” Gene Therapy for Glaucoma: A Novel Approach to Prevent Loss of Vision, $975K for 5 years
Ryan Mcneil, Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine
An ethno-epidemiological study of current and prospective approaches to the management of stimulant use disorders, $470K for 4 years
Deborah Money, Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Defining the maternal legacy: Does mode of delivery impact the role of the maternal vaginal microbiome in predicting the infant gut microbiome?, $1.4M for 5 years
William Morris, Clinical Professor in the Department of Surgery
Optimizing the Curative Treatment for High Risk Prostate Cancer: Combining Advanced Imaging, Trans-perineal Mapping Biopsies, and Dual Air Kerma Strength LDR Brachytherapy Implants to Minimize Radiation Dose to Normal Tissues, $1.1M for 6 years
Ian Pike, Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics
Voices of Children and Youth: Community Injury Prevention through Visual Storytelling and Intervention, $249K for 2 years
Elisabeth Rideout, Clinical Professor in the Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences
Identifying genes and regulatory pathways that control sex differences in lipid storage using Drosophila as a model, $608K for 5 years
Wendy Robinson, Professor in the Department of Medical Genetics
Genetic mosaicism in human development, $440K for 5 years
Chun Seow, Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Mechanisms underlying the bronchodilatory effect of deep inspiration in health and asthma: from airway smooth muscle to the whole lung, $662K for 5 years
Jean Shoveller, Professor in the School of Population and Public Health
Addiction treatment trajectories among street-involved young people who use opioids: Responding to a public health emergency in Vancouver, $317K for 3 years
Joan Sims-Gould, Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Practice
Choose to Move: Impact and Implementation Evaluation of a Program to Enhance Older Adult Physical Activity, Mobility and Health, $727K for 4 years
Patricia Spittal and Martin Schechter, Professors in the School of Population and Public Health
Designing targeted interventions to address HIV vulnerabilities and improve clinical outcomes among conflict affected adolescent girls and young women under 25 in Northern Uganda, $918K for 3 years
Theodore Steiner, Professor in the Department of Medicine
Examining the role of helper T cell immunity in Clostridium difficile infection, $761K for 4 years
Fumio Takei, Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory MedicineImmunological memory of innate lymphoid cells and allergic lung inflammation, $822K for 5 years
Stefan Taubert, Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Genetics
Deciphering the transcriptional control of cytoprotective responses to identify new therapeutic targets, $750K for 5 years
Filip Van Petegem, Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Phosphorylation of Cardiac Ryanodine Receptors, $830K for 5 years
Bruce Verchere, Professor in the Department of Surgery
Genetic and acquired defects in islet prohormone processing in diabetes, $903K for 5 years
Yuzhuo Wang, Professor in the Department of Urologic Sciences
Identification of HP1a as a key regulator and a novel therapeutic target for neuroendocrine prostate cancer, $765K for 5 years