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UBC Medicine researchers awarded more than $25 million in CIHR project grants   

By Qian Chow | July 23, 2024

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UBC Faculty of Medicine researchers are leading 38 projects awarded more than $25 million in combined funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Project Grant: Spring 2024 competition.

The projects will address key health challenges including Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, multiple sclerosis, mental health and more.

Across the university, a total of 52 projects led by UBC researchers were awarded $34.2 million.

On a national level, CIHR approved a total of 373 research grants, for a total investment of approximately $325 million. In addition, 68 priority announcement grants were funded for a total amount of $7,600,000 and 5 supplemental prizes were awarded for a total of $210,000.

Faculty of Medicine-led Project Grants

  • Khaled Abdelrahman (Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics)
    The contribution of metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 to cerebral blood flow homeostasis in Alzheimer’s disease
  • Marcel Bally (Pathology and Laboratory Medicine)
    UBC Medicine Co-PI(s): Laura Evgin (Medical Genetics)
    Copper Associated Immunogenic Cell Death: Improving the Therapeutic Potential of Immune Check Point Inhibitors for the Treatment of Metastatic Bladder Cancer
  • Ali Bashashati (Pathology and Laboratory Medicine)
    UBC Medicine Co-PI(s): Peter Black (Urological Sciences); Gang Wang (Pathology and Laboratory Medicine)
    aRtificial intelligence-driven computational pathology platform for blAdder Cancer subTyping (REACT)
  • Jeffrey Brubacher (Emergency Medicine)
    The impact of 12-hour overnight shifts on nurses’ driving safety: A high-fidelity driver simulator study.
  • Jeffrey Brubacher (Emergency Medicine)
    The impact of medical cannabis on driving safety: A driving simulation study.
  • Mads Daugaard (Urologic Sciences)
    An integrated AI-powered platform for cell analytics
  • Carl De Boer (School of Biomedical Engineering) 
    Identifying altered gene regulatory network states and underlying mechanisms in atrial fibrillation, a model polygenic disease
  • Xuesen Dong (Urologic Sciences)
    Lin28b as a therapeutic target for prostate cancer progression
  • Janice Eng (Physical Therapy)
    UBC Medicine Co-PI(s): Taru Manyanga & Courtney Pollock (Physical Therapy); Brodie Sakakibara (Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy/Southern Medical Program, UBC Okanagan)
    Implementation research to improve scale-up of the delivery of evidence-based community exercise programs for stroke
  • David Fedida (Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics)
    Mechanisms of potassium channel arrhythmias
  • Gordon Francis (Medicine)
    Arterial smooth muscle cell lysosomal acid lipase as a novel target for atherosclerosis treatment and prevention
  • Sophia Frangou (Psychiatry)
    Network-Brain Age: Enhancing spatial precision of accelerated aging
  • John Gill (Nephrology)
    UBC Medicine Co-PI(s): James Lan (Nephrology)
    A prospective interventional study to prevent allosensitization in patients who have failed a first kidney transplant
  • Tillie-Louise Hackett (Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics)
    UBC Medicine Co-PI(s): Christopher Ryerson (Medicine)
    Integration of multi-resolution imaging to improve the diagnosis and treatment of fibrotic interstitial lung diseases
  • Gillian Hanley (Obstetrics & Gynaecology)
    Long term development in children exposed in utero to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and stimulant medication
  • David Huntsman (Pathology and Laboratory Medicine)
    DICER1 tumour predisposition syndrome: dissecting the oncogenic mechanisms with a novel lineage-trackable genetically engineered mouse model
  • Amy Jamieson (Obstetrics & Gynaecology)
    UBC Medicine Co-PI(s): Jessica McAlpine, (Obstetrics & Gynaecology)
    STRIVE Study: STRatIfication of Vulvar squamous cell carcinoma by HPV and p53 status to guide Excision
  • Mohammad Karim (School of Population and Public Health)
    Developing an Epidemiological Tool for Early Detection: A Risk Prediction Algorithm for Prodromal Multiple Sclerosis
  • Jayachandran Kizhakkedathu (Pathology and Laboratory Medicine)
    Transfusion Without Blood Typing: Enzymatic Glycoengineering Towards ‘True’ Universal Blood
  • Viviane Lima (Medicine)
    Persistent Low-Level HIV Viremia During Antiretroviral Therapy: Origins and Clinical Consequences
  • Kelly McNagny (Medical Genetics/School of Biomedical Engineering)
    Neonatal ILCs Sculpt Long-term Adult Immune Response
  • Erin Michalak (Psychiatry)
    Evaluating the efficacy of the PolarUs app on quality of life outcomes in people with bipolar disorder
  • Orson Moritz (Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences)
    Genetic and environmental modulators of disease mechanisms in retinitis pigmentosa.
  • Mahmoud Pouladi (Medical Genetics)
    Probing the Role of Claudin-11 Mutations in Hypomyelinating Leukodystrophy
  • Gregor Reid (Pediatrics)
    Harnessing infection-associated modifiers of paediatric acute lymphoblastic leukaemia progression for therapeutic benefit
  • Laura Sly (Pediatrics)
    UBC Medicine Co-PI(s): Harry Brumer (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
    Bespoke plant glycoconjugates to improve Inflammatory Bowel Disease treatment through gut-microbiota-mediated drug targeting
  • Peter Stirling (Medical Genetics)
    Development and application of novel FEN1 endonuclease inhibitors
  • Peter Zandstra (School of Biomedical Engineering)
    Gastruloid Engineering: Precision Organoid Design for Developmental and Disease Modeling
  • Amina Zoubeidi (Urologic Sciences)
    Interplay between ASCL1 and chromatin remodeling complex in prostate cancer lineage plasticity

Full list of Project Grant awardees


Faculty of Medicine-led Priority Announcement Projects

  • Leonard Foster (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
    Development and Commercialization of a Safe and Effective Mpox Subunit Vaccine with Global Impact
    Priority Announcement Area: Pandemic Preparedness and Health Emergencies Research
  • Corinne Hohl (Emergency Medicine)
    UBC Medicine Co-PI(s): Brian Grunau (Emergency Medicine); Andrew Kestler (Emergency Medicine); Mark Lysyshyn (School of Population and Public Health); Jessica Moe (Emergency Medicine)
    Optimizing outcomes for patients presenting to emergency departments with opioid poisoning
    Priority Announcement Area: Pandemic Preparedness and Health Emergencies Research
  • Francis Lynn (Surgery/School of Biomedical Engineering)
    UBC Medicine Co-PI(s): Bruce Verchere (Surgery/Pathology and Laboratory Medicine)
    Building better beta cells in order to improve stem cell-derived islet transplantation outcomes
    Priority Announcement Area: Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes
    *Conditional award at time of announcement 
  • Christopher Maxwell (Pediatrics)
    Elucidate the targetable mechanisms underpinning the development of a pregnancy-associated breast cancer in BRCA1 mutation carriers.
    Priority Announcement Area: Breast Cancer Prevention & Early Detection
  • Elaine McKevitt (Surgery)
    Oncologic, surgical, and patient reported outcomes following breast conserving surgery versus mastectomy in breast cancer patients: a prospective study.
    Priority Announcement Area: Breast Cancer Survivorship
  • Luis Nacul (Family Practice)
    Epidemiology and impact of myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) in Canada: A multi-centre population-based study
    Priority Announcement Area: Pandemic Preparedness and Health Emergencies Research
  • Kellie Thiessen (Family Practice)
    UBC Medicine Co-PI(s): Roberta Price (Family Practice)
    Through the Cracks: Development of a Psychosocial Perinatal Mentorship Framework, to address escalating maternal mortality rates for pregnant persons with psychosocial comorbidities
    Priority Announcement Area: Research in First Nations, Inuit and/or Métis Health
  • Victor Viau (Cellular and Physiological Sciences)
    Sex differences in inflammatory, neuroendocrine and behavioural responses: Impact of corticosteroid-binding globulin deficiency.
    Priority Announcement Area: Sex and Gender in Health Research (Bridge funding)
  • Jacqueline Whittaker (Physical Therapy)
    The Stop Osteoarthritis (SOAR) Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Type 1 Randomized Controlled Trial for Young People at-High-Risk of Early Onset Knee Osteoarthritis
    Priority Announcement Area: Female Athlete Health

Full list of Priority Announcement Grant awardees

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