The Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) has awarded more than $19 million in funding to numerous Faculty of Medicine researchers through the Project Grant Spring 2019 competition.
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Project grants led by UBC researchers
CIHR awarded 382 research grants and 21 bridge grants totaling approximately $275 million. Thirty-six of the projects awarded research grants are led by UBC researchers, more than any other institution in this round of funding.
Eighty-five of the grants were awarded to early career researchers and 14 were awarded for Indigenous health research projects. Fifteen priority announcement bridge grants were also funded for a total amount of more than $1.4 million.
The CIHR Project Grant program is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential to advance health-related fundamental or applied knowledge, health research, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes. It supports projects or programs of research proposed and conducted by individual researchers or groups of researchers in all areas of health.
Project Grants
The recipients of the spring Project Grants in the Faculty of Medicine and their project titles are:
- Lara Boyd, department of physical therapy
Individualized pathways to recovery after stroke, $711,450, over five years
- Pat Camp, department of physical therapy, and Travis Holyk, faculty of medicine and executive director at Carrier Sekani Family Services
Wildfire Smoke and Emergency Planning for First Nations People Living with Lung Disease in Remote and Rural British Columbia, $738,226, over four and half years
- Mark Cembrowski, department of cellular and physiological sciences
Elucidating and disrupting the neural substrates of fear memory, $963,900, over five years
- Susanne Clee, department of cellular and physiological sciences
Role of pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase 1 (PDK1) in triglyceride metabolism and heart health, $807,076, over five years
- Mahyar Etminan, department of ophthalmology and visual sciences
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- Hormonal Contraceptives and Risk of Pseudotumor Cerebri Syndrome in Women of Child Bearing Age, $153,000, over two years
- Tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi) and Risk of Multiple Sclerosis, $187,424 over three years
- Thalia Field, department of medicine’s division of neurology
CVT in BC: Incidence, Diagnosis, Treatment Strategies and Prognosis of Cerebral Venous Thrombosis in British Columbia, Canada, $150,000, over three years
- Blake Gilks, department of pathology and laboratory medicine, Ali Bashashati and Septimiu Salcudean, faculty of applied science
Omics, Histopathology and AI: An Integrative Approach for Biomarker Discovery in Ovarian Cancer, $822,376, over three years
- Aly Karsan, department of pathology and laboratory medicine
Vascular differentiation, $910,350, over five years
- Andrea Krüsi, School of Population and Public Health
Occupational health, safety and labour rights among street and indoor sex workers in the context of evolving laws and policing: Ethnographic and qualitative participatory-action research, $745,876, over five years
- Pascal Lavoie, department of pediatrics
Metabolic regulation of immune defenses in newborns, $1,013,816, over five years
- Louis Lefebvre, department of medical genetics
Epigenetic regulation and function of species-specific imprinted genes: testing a new hypothesis for the evolution of imprinting, $956,250 over five years
- Matthew Lorincz, department of medical genetics
The role of histone methylation in guiding de novo DNA methylation in the male germline, $753,526, over five years
- Kathleen Martin Ginis, department of medicine
Can Exercise Prescribed According to the International Scientific Spinal Cord Injury Exercise Guidelines Alleviate Chronic Pain in Adults Living with Spinal Cord Injury? A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial, $554,624, over three years
- Joanne Matsubara, department of ophthamology and visual sciences
Treating advanced retinal degeneration – rebuilding multiple co-dependent retinal layers with stem cells, $856,800 over four years
- Erin Michalak, department of psychiatry and Steven Barnes, faculty of arts
Bipolar Bridges: A Digital Health Innovation Targeting Quality of Life in Bipolar Disorder, $535,500, over three years
- Andrew Minchinton, department of pathology and laboratory medicine
Hypoxia-activated DNA repair inhibitors to improve cancer therapy, $573,750, over three years
- Kishore Mulpuri and David Wilson, department of orthopedics
Advanced MR Imaging of Perthes Disease to Improve Treatment, $451,352, over four years
- Alexander Rauscher, department of pediatrics
Imaging markers for tissue damage and disease progression in MS, $707,626, over five years
- Calvin D. Roskelley, department of cellular and physiological sciences and Kelly McNagy, professor in the department of medical genetics
Targeting ovarian carcinoma using the cell surface glycoprotein podocalyxin, $963,900, over five years
- Alexander Scott, department of physical therapy
Tendon impairment in people with familal hypercholesterolemia: clinical and laboratory studies, $646,426, over five years
- Laura Sly, department of pediatrics
Targeting PI3-kinase p110delta to treat Crohn’s disease-associated intestinal fibrosis, $956,250, over five years
- Weihong Song, department of psychiatry
The effect of a novel presenilin 1 mutation on Alzheimer’s Disease pathogenesis, $994,500, over five years
- Stefan Taubert, department of medical genetics and Francis Lynn, department of surgery
Function of the Mediator complex in pancreatic islet cell maturation and maintenance, $983,026, over five years
- Joseph Ting, department of pediatrics
Using Antibiotics Wisely – Development of National Neonatal Intensive Care Unit-specific Antimicrobial Stewardship Plan Principal Investigator, $478,736, over five years
- Bruce Verchere, departments of pathology and laboratory medicine and surgery
Islet macrophages: regulators of beta cell function in health and diabetes, $952,426, over five years
- Christopher West, department of cellular and physiological sciences
Sex-based differences in cardiac function and cardiovascular disease risk in spinal cord injury, $260,100, over three years
- John Street and David Wilson, department of orthopedics
Development, assessment and application of a new method for characterizing degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis in the symptomatic upright posture, $550,800, over four years
- Haishan Zeng, department of dermatology and skin sciences and department of physics and astronomy, Harvey Lui, department of dermatology and skin sciences, Joanne Matsubara and Sonia Yeung, department of ophthalmology and visual sciences
Multiphoton Photothermolysis Based Laser Therapy for Precision Treatment of Neovascular Eye Diseases, $711,451, over four years
Bridge Grants
Faculty of medicine recipient of a bridge grant:
- David Moore, school of population and public health
Uptake, determinants, and gaps of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) use among HIV-negative gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (gbMSM) in Metro Vancouver, Canada, $100,000 over one year
Priority Announcement Bridge Grants
Faculty of medicine recipients of priority announcement bridge grants:
- Aziz Ghahary, department of surgery
Development and application of a Multifunctional Nutrient-rich Composite Scaffold for Treatment of Complex Wounds, $100,000 over one year
Project Grant – Priority Announcement: Musculoskeletal, Skin and Oral Health: Clinical Research – Skin Health
- Erin Michalak, department of psychiatry
Bipolar Bridges: A Digital Health Innovation Targeting Quality of Life in Bipolar Disorder, $100,000 over one year
Project Grant – Priority Announcement: Data science, management and stewardship