Six faculty of medicine researchers have been awarded 2019 Women’s Health Research Institute Catalyst Grants.
This grant competition, funded by the BC Women’s Health Foundation, provides support for pilot studies in women’s and newborn’s health. The projects aim to generate preliminary data, test new approaches, methodologies or tools, bring new teams together, and/or support new research in women’s and newborn’s health from established researchers.
This year, the competition introduced two applicant streams evaluated separately – the Academic Researcher stream and the Clinician Investigator stream.
Academic Researcher Stream principal investigators and their project titles:
Paul Yong, assistant professor, department of obstetrics and gynecology and A. Fuchsia Howard, assistant professor, UBC School of Nursing; Endometriosis and Painful Sex: Piloting Digital Storytelling
Manish Sadarangani, assistant professor, department of pediatrics; Mechanism of interference of pertussis immunization in pregnancy with infants’ active immune response
Sarah Munro, assistant professor, department of obstetrics and gynecology; Storytelling as a tool for knowledge translation between researchers and government
Clinician Investigator Stream principal investigators and their project titles:
Laura Sauvé, clinical assistant professor, department of pediatrics; Defining the Hepatitis C (HCV) Cascade of care for pregnant women and their infants
Mark S. Carey, Clinical Professor, department of obstetrics and gynecology; Canadian survey of clinical practice patterns for the management of rare gynecological cancers
Joseph Ting, clinical associate professor, department of pediatrics; Effects of Prematurity on Children’s Health in British Columbia