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Federal funding boosts 25 Faculty of Medicine research projects

By Qian Chow | June 14, 2024

An aerial image of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC Vancouver.

UBC Faculty of Medicine researchers have been awarded more than $6 million in federal funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grants program.

A total of 157 new programs and projects led by UBC researchers were awarded more than $36.2 million through the 2024 NSERC Discovery Research Program competition.

The awards were announced by Yasir Naqvi, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health, and Ryan Turnbull, Parliamentary Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, on behalf of the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry, as part of the Government of Canada’s investment of $693.8 million in funding for discovery and applied research. 

Faculty of Medicine recipients:

DISCOVERY GRANTS

The NSERC Discovery Grants program supports ongoing programs of research with long-term goals rather than a single short-term project or collection of projects. These grants recognize the creativity and innovation that are at the heart of all research advances.

Discovery Launch Supplements provide timely resources to support early career researchers (ECRs) as they establish a Discovery Grant-funded research program. Projects marked with * below were awarded an additional $12,500 each for one year through the Discovery Launch Supplements program.

  • Mark Cembrowski, Cellular and Physiological Sciences
    Subtype-specific neuronal processing within the deep neocortex

  • Artem Cherkasov, Urologic Sciences
    D5 Research Platform: Democratizing Drug Discovery with Deep Docking

  • Jessica Dennis, Medical Genetics
    Genomics of longitudinal traits*

  • Adele Diamond, Psychiatry
    Improving Executive Functions

  • Faraz Hach, Urologic Sciences
    Empowering Genomics and Transcriptomics: A Toolkit for Single-Molecule and Single-Cell Sequencing Technologies

  • Brett Hilton, Cellular and Physiological Sciences
    The role of the presynaptic active zone in axon growth during neuronal maturation*

  • LeAnn Howe, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
    Novel Functions of Histone Acetylation

  • Jayachandran Kizhakkedathu, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
    Novel Biomaterials Design Concepts in the Development of Immunomodulating Materials and Bioactive Surfaces

  • Tim Lee, Dermatology and Skin Science
    Coherence- and polarization-based detection of melanoma

  • Louis Lefebvre, Medical Genetics
    Genomic imprinting at the Mest cluster: mechanism and function

  • Manu Madhav, School of Biomedical Engineering
    An engineering approach to model flexible neural representations that enable biological navigation*

  • Tim O’Connor, Cellular and Physiological Sciences
    Continued expression of developmental guidance cues is critical for the maintenance of neural circuits

  • Elizabeth Rideout, Cellular and Physiological Sciences
    Mechanisms and consequences of an interaction between sex determination gene transformer and metabolic regulator spargel

  • Stacey Skoretz, Audiology and Speech Sciences
    The mammalian aerodigestive tract: Exploring multi-system mechanistic integration during breathing and swallowing*

  • Miriam Spering, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
    Sensorimotor prediction in dynamic visual scenes

  • Sriram Subramaniam, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
    On-Grid Purification of Biomolecules for Electron Microscopy

  • Roger Tam, School of Biomedical Engineering
    Beyond the confusion matrix: A framework to compare neural network representations trained on biomedical data

  • Guy Tanentzapf, Cellular and Physiological Sciences
    Regulation of spermatogenesis by gap-junction mediated signalling.

  • Stefan Taubert, Medical Genetics
    Mapping new starvation response mechanisms in Caenorhabditis elegans

  • Bruce Vallance, Pediatrics
    Using fasting to reveal critical microbiota-host interactions at the colonic mucosal surface

  • Ying Wang, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
    Cell-cell and cell-microenvironment interactions maintain tissue homeostasis of the cardiovascular system.*

  • Wyeth Wasserman, Medical Genetics
    Bioinformatics for Prediction of Transcriptional Regulation Mechanisms

  • Alexander Weber, Pediatrics
    Mapping the Structural and Functional Development of the Brain in the First Year of Life: A State-of-the-Art Quantitative MRI Approach*

  • Calvin Yip, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
    Structural and functional studies of mammalian intracellular transport regulators

DISCOVERY HORIZONS GRANT PROGRAM

Discovery Horizons grants support investigator-initiated individual and team projects that broadly integrate or transcend disciplines to advance knowledge in the natural sciences and engineering.

  • Calum MacAulay, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
    Angular contrast multimodal optical imaging for lung cancer assessment

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