Announcing the Winners of VCHRI's 2008
Venture Grants Competition

The purpose of the Venture Grants competition is to fund novel, high-risk projects that may lead to an exciting new research direction with the potential to have a significant impact on health and/or health care in the future. This competition is open to established VCHRI investigators. Congratulations to the following three winners! To read abstracts of their projects, click on the project title below.

VENTURE GRANT AWARD WINNERS

	Raewyn Broady Immunity & Infection Research centre, VCHRI; UBC Dept. of Medicine, Division of Haematology Title: Th17 cells as predictive biomarker for cGVHD
	Martin J. McKeown Brain Research Centre, VCHRI; UBC Dept. of Medicine, Division of Neurology Title: Who, when, and how much? Patient-specific, dynamic monitoring and optimal dosing of medications in Parkinson's Disease (PD)
	Bill Salh Immunity & Infection Research Centre, VCHRI; UBC Dept. of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology Title: Can Caulobacter crescentus mediated IL-10 delivery modulate experimental colitis?

We also wish to acknowledge and thank the Venture Grants review committee members for their hard work. We could not have any of our funding competitions without individuals volunteering their time to participate on our review committees.

• Dr. Alasdair Barr, Brain Research Centre; UBC Dept of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics
• Dr. Tom Oxland, Centre for Hip Health & Musculoskeletal Research; UBC Department of Orthopaedics, Division of Orthopaedic Engineering
• Dr. Janice Eng, ICORD/Stroke Research Group; UBC Department of Physical Therapy
• Dr. Megan Levings, Immunity & Infection Research Centre, UBC Department of Surgery
• Dr. Janet McElhaney, VITALiTY Research Centre/Immunity and Infection Research Centre; UBC Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine
• Dr. Doug Matsell, Pediatric Nephrology, BCCH; UBC Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology
• Dr. Linda Peritz, Committee Chair; Associate Director, VCHRI

Announcing the Winners of VCHRI's 2007
Venture Grants Competition

The purpose of the Venture Grants competition is to fund novel, high-risk projects that may lead to an exciting new research direction with the potential to have a significant impact on health and/or health care in the future. This competition is open to established VCHRI investigators. Congratulations to the following five winners! To read abstracts of their projects, click on the project title below.

VENTURE GRANT AWARD WINNERS

	Howard Feldman Brain Research Centre; UBC Dept. of Medicine, Division of Neurology Title: Development of the Clinical Meaningfulness in Alzheimer Disease Treatment (CLIMAT) Scale
	John Fleetham Centre for Respiratory & Critical Care Research; UBC Dept. of Medicine, Division of Respiratory Title: Dynamic 3-dimensional airway modeling of the effect of oral appliances for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea/hypopnea
	Neil Reiner Immunity & Infection Research Centre; UBC Dept. of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases Title: Identification of M. tuberculosis and Chlamydia trachomatis effector proteins using a genetic screen in yeast
	Alan So Prostate Centre at VGH; UBC Dept. of Urologic Sciences Title: The Application of Ultra-Short Coherent Anti-stokes Raman Scattering in the Detection of Bladder Cancer Both In-Vitro and In-Vivo
	Ted Steiner Immunity & Infection Research Centre; UBC Dept. of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases Title: Establishment of a rodent model of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli enterocolitis

We also wish to acknowledge and thank the Venture Grants review committee members for their hard work. We could not have any of our funding competitions without individuals volunteering their time to participate on our review committees.

• Dr. Linda Peritz, VCHRI (Chair)
  
• Dr. Alasdair Barr, Psychiatry
  
• Dr. Peter Choi, Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics
  
• Dr. Richard Finley, Surgery
  
• Dr. Megan Levings, Surgery
  
• Dr. Janet McElhaney, Geriatric Medicine
  
• Dr. Martin McKeown, Neurology
  
• Dr. Clay Smith, Hematology/Bone Marrow Transplant

Dr. Megan Levings Immunity & Infection Research Centre UBC Department of Surgery	Searching for a better marker of human T regulatory cells
Dr. Don Garbuz Centre for Hip Health UBC Department of Orthopaedics	Early cartilage degeneration in femoroacetabular impingement syndrome
Dr. Alasdair Barr Brain Research Centre UBC Department of Psychiatry	A role for neuroligins in schizophrenia
Dr. Doris Doudet Brain Research Centre UBC Division of Neurology	Invivo and postmortem comparison and evaluation of 2 tracers for Alzheimer's Disease in a primate model of aging