VCHRI researchers awarded CIHR project grants to support health research

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

Project Grants

Deconvoluting Prognostic and Targetable Features of Endometrioid Ovarian Carcinomas of No Specific Molecular Profile
Principal Investigators: Dr. Michael Anglesio, Dr. Aline Talhouk

Understanding epigenetic regulation and modulation of cell stress responses by the cholesterol transporter, scavenger receptor-B1 as a novel target for treating advanced prostate cancer
Principal Investigator: Dr. Michael Cox

Neck Muscle and Head-Neck Dynamics in Rollover Crashes
Principal Investigator: Dr. Peter Cripton 

Re-imagining Recovery with Young People Who Use(d) Drugs and Their Caregivers in Metro Vancouver: A Longitudinal Qualitative and Community-Based Participatory Study
Principal Investigator: Dr. Danya Fast

CRF modulation of motivation, decision making and dopamine transmission
Principal Investigator: Dr. Stanley Floresco

Neuropathology of cognitive impairment in chronic schizophrenia
Principal Investigator: Dr. Veronica Hirsch-Reinshagen

The PELvUS Study - Pelvic floor Exercise to Lessen Urinary incontinence and Sexual dysfunction in people with spinal cord injury
Principal Investigator: Dr. Tania Lam

ACTIVE: Adding Life to Years in Cognitive Frailty by Preventing Falls
Principal Investigators: Dr. Teresa Liu-Ambrose, Dr. Linda Li, Dr. Kenneth Madden

Newly Optimized LNP Systems for Genetic drugs and Gene therapy in Neurological diseases
Principal Investigator: Dr. Brian MacVicar

Comparing observation vs. bracing in radiologically dysplastic, stable hips in infants with developmental dysplasia of the hip. An International Multi-Centre Non-Inferiority Randomized Control Trial
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kishore Mulpuri

Using translational biomarkers to define whether plane of motion and complexity of head kinematics modifies biomarker and neuropathological responses to concussion in mice and humans
Principal Investigators: Dr. Cheryl Wellington, Dr. Peter Cripton, Dr. Piotr Kozlowski, Dr. Lyndia Wu

Read the full list of project grant recipients

Priority Announcement Grants

Cancer-driver events in normal endometrium: impact on healthy aging and reproduction
Priority Announcement: Women’s Health Research – Early Career
Principal Investigators: Dr. Michael Anglesio, Dr. Gillian Hanley, Dr. Paul Yong

Endometriosis and ovarian cancer: Understanding which patients are at high risk for ovarian cancer
Priority Announcement: Early Detection/Cancer Prevention
Principal Investigators: Dr. Gillian Hanley Dr. Michael Anglesio

Artificial intelligence assisted Method, Optimizing the Prediction of Patient Outcomes among Long COVID-19 Patients
Priority Announcement: Pandemic Preparedness and Health Emergencies Research
Principal Investigator: Dr. Savvakis Nicolaou

Translating Epigenomics into Clinical Care for Synovial Sarcoma
Priority Announcement: Pediatric Cancer Research
Principal Investigator: Dr. Torsten Nielsen

Investigating altered sensorimotor processing in Huntington disease
Project Grant: Bridge Grant
Principal Investigator: Lynn Raymond

Improving endometrial cancer risk prediction by including genetic, environmental, and temporal exposures
Priority Announcement: Women’s Health Research – Early Career
Principal Investigator: Dr. Aline Talhouk

A master transcription factor driving cell lineage reprogramming in neuroendocrine prostate cancer development and progression
Priority Announcement: Cancer Research
Principal Investigator: Dr. Yuzhuo Wang

Read the full list of priority announcement grant recipients