Faculty of medicine researchers have attracted more than $21 million in funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
In all, 354 research grants were funded for a total investment of approximately $274 million through the Project Grants: Fall 2020 competition. In addition, 97 priority announcement grants were funded to a total amount of $9,575,000 and 11 supplemental prizes were awarded for a total of $296,500.
UBC researchers attracted a total of $25.6 million for 41 projects. Thirty-three UBC-led projects received Project Grant funding totalling $24.8 million and eight UBC-led projects received priority announcement grants totalling $775,000.
Faculty of medicine awardees:
Douglas Allan, department of cellular and physiological sciences
Project: Transcriptional programs of synapse maturation
CIHR Funding: $856,800 (5 years)
Ali Bashashati, School of Biomedical Engineering; Peter Black, department of urologic sciences; Larry Goldenberg, department of urologic sciences
Project: Prostate cancer risk stratification for active surveillance using computer-aided analysis of histopathology and transcriptomics
CIHR Funding: $906,525 (5 years)
Colin Collins, department of urologic sciences
Project: Uncovering early mediators of lineage plasticity and validation of a metabolic vulnerability in neuroendocrine prostate cancer
CIHR Funding: $1,147,500 (5 years)
Angela Devlin, department of pediatrics; Pascal Bernatchez, department of anesthesiology, pharmacology and therapeutics; Constadina Panagiotopoulos, department of pediatrics
Project: Correcting early vascular dysfunction to improve cardiovascular outcomes in type 1 diabetes
CIHR Funding: $841,500 (5 years)
Quynh Doan, department of pediatrics
Project: Evaluating the psychometric properties and help-seeking impact of HEARTSMAP-U: a digital psychosocial self-assessment and navigational support application for post-secondary students.
CIHR Funding: $554,624 (4 years)
Nichole Fairbrother, department of psychiatry
Project: Perinatal Anxiety Disorders Screening Study
CIHR Funding: $684,676 (4 years)
David Fedida, department of anesthesiology, pharmacology and therapeutics
Project: Mechanisms of potassium channel activator action on Kv7.1 ion channel complexes.
CIHR Funding: $971,550 (5 years)
Brian Grunau, department of emergency medicine; Jane Buxton, School of Population and Public Health; James Christenson, department of emergency medicine
Project: Opioid Overdose-Related Cardiac Arrest: What are the Best Interventions?
CIHR Funding: $283,051 (3 years)
Joerg Gsponer, department of biochemistry and molecular biology; Lawrence Mcintosh, department of biochemistry and molecular biology
Project: Protein phase separation: A new mechanism of protein function regulation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
CIHR Funding: $887,400 (5 years)
Jaime Guzman, department of pediatrics
Project: Treating Children with Arthritis According to their Individual Probability of Outcomes and Response to Treatments – The PERSON-JIA Trial
CIHR Funding: $455,175 (5 years)
Nicholas Bansback, School of Population and Public Health
Project: Evaluating the impact of a mandatory switching policy for biosimilars
CIHR Funding: $298,350 (3 years)
Rob Holt, department of medical genetics
Project: Lentiviral infusion as a universal approach for genetically modified immune effector cell therapies.
CIHR Funding: $642,600 (4 years)
Rosemin Kassam, School of Population and Public Health
Project: Women supporting women using local solutions to improve infant and young child feeding and care practices in Punjab, Pakistan
CIHR Funding: $799,425 (5 years)
Christian Kastrup, department of biochemistry and molecular biology
Project: Minimally-invasive device and bioabsorbable hemostatic powder for managing non-compressible torso hemorrhage
CIHR Funding: $455,176 (4 years)
Jayachandran Kizhakkedathu, pathology and laboratory medicine; Dirk Lange, department of urologic sciences
Project: Novel Infection Resistant Coating in an Era of Drug Resistant Bacteria for the Treatment and Prevention of Medical Device Infection
CIHR Funding: $520,199 (3 years)
Rodney Knight, department of medicine
Project: Identifying the impact of cannabis use on mental health outcomes among sexual and gender minority youth: A mixed-methods study
CIHR Funding: $478,126 (3 years)
Chinten James Lim, department of pathology and laboratory medicine
Project: Targeting CD47 in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
CIHR Funding: $1,028,925 (5 years)
Teresa Liu-Ambrose and Linda Li, department of physical therapy
Project: SuPA Mobility: Supporting Physical Activity to Promote Mobility in Mobility-Limited Older Adults
CIHR Funding: $631,128 (6 years)
Martin Mckeown, department of medicine, division of neurology
Project: In silico Design of Precision Electrical Stimuli for Electrical Vestibular Stimulation in Parkinson’s Disease.
CIHR Funding: $841,270 (5 years)
Robert Molday, department of biochemistry and molecular biology
Project: High Resolution Structure of Human ABCA4, an ATP-binding Cassette (ABC) Lipid Importer Associated with Inherited Retinal Degenerative Diseases
CIHR Funding: $918,000 (5 years)
Melanie Murray, department of medicine
Project: Role of Female Sex Hormones on Aging in Women Living with HIV.
CIHR Funding: $382,500 (5 years)
Ivan Nabi, department of cellular and physiological sciences
Project: Using super-resolution microscopy to define the role of caveolin-1 in cancer
CIHR Funding: $910,350 (5 years)
Nobuhiko Tokuriki, department of biochemistry and molecular biology
Project: Novel antibiotic therapies that target bacterial energetic systems
CIHR Funding: $956,250 (5 years)
Michael Underhill, department of cellular and physiological sciences
Project: Tissue-resident mesenchymal progenitors and aging
CIHR Funding: $971,550 (5 years)
Cheryl Wellington, department of pathology and laboratory medicine; Angela Brooks-Wilson, department of medical genetics); Ging-Yuek Robin Hsiung, department of medicine
Project: Evaluating the potential of blood biomarkers to improve Alzheimer’s Disease risk stratification
CIHR Funding: $1,503,224 (4 years)
Christian Steidl, department of pathology and laboratory medicine
Project: Somatic mutations in the JAK-STAT and IRF signaling pathways in Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
CIHR Funding: $1,120,725 (5 years)
Glen Tibbits, department of pathology and laboratory medicine
Project: Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT): arrhythmogenic mechanisms and personalized intervention
CIHR Funding: $924,120 (5 years)
Jan Dutz, department of dermatology and skin science
Project: Phototherapy to modulate regulatory T cells and prevent autoimmune disease
CIHR Funding: $382,499 (3 years)
UBC-led project grants: Priority Announcements
Kendall Ho, department of emergency medicine
Project: Technologies for Home Medication Vigilance and Protection (TEC4Home MVP)
Priority Announcement: Health Services and Policy Research
CIHR Funding: $50,000 / Canadian Medical Association (Ottawa) Funding: $50,000
Brodie Sakakibara, department of occupational science and occupational therapy
Project: Advancing virtual care in stroke rehabilitation: TeleRehabilitation with Aims to Improve Lower Extremity Recovery Post-Stroke (TRAIL)
Priority Announcement: Health Services and Policy Research
CIHR Funding: $50,000 / Canadian Medical Association (Ottawa) Funding: $50,000
Wendy Norman, department of family practice
Project: The CART PREG-Epi Study: Pandemic Reproductive health and health Equity- Guidance from Epidemiology to improve reproductive, perinatal, and maternal mental health and substance use care
Priority Announcement: Population and Public Health – Public Health Systems
CIHR Funding: $100,000
Patricia Janssen, School of Population and Public Health
Project: Teaching by Texting to Promote Healthy Behaviours in Pregnancy
Priority Announcement: Healthy pregnancy/early child dev. in Indigenous contexts
CIHR Funding: $100,000
Jennifer Hutcheon, department of obstetrics and gynaecology
Project: Every maternal death counts: understanding driving safety in pregnant and post-partum women
Priority Announcement: Data Analysis Using Existing Databases and Cohorts
CIHR Funding: $75,000