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VCHRI recipients of CIHR project grants continue to advance health research

Announcement Jul 18, 2022 2 minutes

The CIHR Spring 2022 competition has approved 405 research grants and two bridge grants, for a total investment of $325 million.

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has announced the results of its Spring 2022 project grant competition. Congratulations to all the VCHRI researchers who were awarded project grants. 

Project Grant

An intersectional investigation of women’s experiences of overlapping overdose and COVID-19 public health crises
Principal Investigator: Dr. Jade Boyd

Gamifying neuro rehabilitation: Can we predict who will benefit?
Principal Investigator: Dr. Lara Boyd

Traffic-Related Air Pollution, Inhaled Corticosteroids and Host Defence Response in COPD
Principal Investigator: Dr. Chris Carlsten

A specialized neural circuit representing novelty on behavioural timescales
Principal Investigator: Dr. Mark Cembrowski

Targeting synaptic organizers in neuropsychiatric disorders
Principal Investigator: Dr. Ann Marie Craig

Novel mechanisms and therapeutic approach for aging-related pruritus
Principal Investigator: Dr. David Granville

Lipid Nanoparticle-Mediated Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing for Neurological Disorders
Principal Investigator: Dr. Blair Leavitt

Behaviour-based cell separation to interrogate host cell heterogeneity in CAR-T cell therapies
Principal Investigator: Dr. Hongshen Ma

Traumatic brain injury and cerebral small vessel disease in a vulnerably housed cohort, a prelude to early neurodegeneration and dementia
Principal Investigators: Dr. William Panenka, Dr. Thalia Field, Dr. Cheryl Willington

Targeting inflammatory and neurodegenerative pathways relevant to progression in the NR1H3 (LXRA) R415Q model of primary progressive multiple sclerosis
Principal Investigator: Dr. Jacqueline Quandt

Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping from Clinical Phase Data
Principal Investigator: Dr. Alexander Rauscher

Peers Actively Involved in Rehabilitation: Transforming Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation (PAIR TBI)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Julia Schmidt

An evaluation of the health, criminal justice, and service use outcomes of the Ministry of Health assuming responsibility for prison health care services in BC (PRISM-BC)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Christian Schütz

Drug overdose after departure from hospital against medical advice
Principal Investigator: Dr. John Staples

Digital self-tracking and self-testing for early detection of endometrial cancer
Principal Investigators: Dr. Aline Talhouk, Dr. Michael Anglesio, Dr. Anna Tinker

Automatic Assessment of Aortic Stenosis with Point of Care Ultrasound
Principal Investigators: Dr. Michael Tsang, Dr. Teresa Tsang

Clinical-biomarker predictors of outcome after endometriosis surgery
Principal Investigators: Dr. Paul Yong, Dr. Michael Anglesio, Dr. Aline Talhouk

Read the full list of project grant recipients

 

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