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VCHRI researchers awarded CIHR project grants to advance health research

Announcement Jul 21, 2023 2 minutes

The CIHR Spring 2023 competition has approved 381 research grants and 12 bridge grants, for a total investment of $325 million.

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has announced the results of its Spring 2023 project grant competition. Congratulations to all the VCHRI researchers who were awarded project grants. 

Project Grants

AMPLIFY: Elevating the stories of Indigenous women, gender diverse, and Two-Spirit peoples
Principal investigator: Dr. Brittany Bingham

FIRE-Diet: Food as an Intervention to Reduce the Effects of Woodsmoke Exposure on Respiratory Health
Principal investigator: Dr. Emily Brigham

Virtual Reality Exposure for Vaginismus: A Replicated Single-Case Design
Principal investigator: Dr. Lori Brotto

Endometriosis-associated ovarian cancer: Understanding which patients are at high risk
Principal investigators: Dr. Gillian Hanley, Dr. Michael Angelsio

Online Participatory Digital Storytelling for People with Endometriosis: Investigating Therapeutic Potential, Authentic Portrayal, and Knowledge Translation
Principal investigator: Dr. Paul Yong

Astrocyte Piezo1 channels in neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration
Principal investigator: Dr. Brian MacVicar

Translating Epigenomics into Clinical Care for Synovial Sarcoma
Principal investigator: Dr. Torsten Nielsen

Multi-modal, multi-parametric liver imaging for ultrasound-based stratification of patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Principal investigators: Dr. Septimiu Salcudean, Dr. Piotr Kozlowski, Dr. Emily Pang

Advanced optical monitoring of free tissue transfer hemodynamics
Principal investigator: Dr. Babak Shadgan

Exploring the potential of type-1 regulatory T cells in resolution and recovery from intestinal inflammation
Principal investigator: Dr. Theodore Steiner

Telehealth for Emergency-Community Continuity of Care Connectivity via Home Blood Pressure Telemonitoring (TEC4HOME-BP)
Principal investigator: Dr. Karen Tran

Acute intermittent hypoxia as a novel cardio-therapeutic for spinal cord injury
Principal investigator: Dr. Christopher West

Read the full list of project grant recipients

Priority Announcement Grants

Population-based study to determine the appropriateness and determinants of antibiotic use in primary care for migrants in Canada using administrative data: from data science to policy and action
Priority announcement: Antimicrobial Resistance (Bridge Grant)
Principal investigator: Dr. Fawziah Lalji

Evaluating the delivery of breast cancer care for patients undergoing breast reconstruction: A provincial quantitative and qualitative evaluation of care
Priority announcement: Health Services and Policy Research
Principal investigators: Dr. Kathryn Isaac, Dr. Jason Sutherland

Implementation research to improve scale-up of the delivery of evidence-based community exercise programs for stroke
Priority announcement: Patient-Oriented Research
Principal investigators: Dr. Janice Eng

Read the full list of priority announcement grant recipients
 

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