The CIHR Fall 2024 competition has approved 453 research grants and 105 priority grants, for a total investment of $411 million.
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has announced the results of its Fall 2024 project grant competition. Congratulations to all the VCHRI researchers who were awarded project and priority announcement grants.
Project Grants
A detonator neuron driving the cellular and behavioural expression of seizures
Principal Investigator: Dr. Mark Cembrowski
The role of calcium-dependent vesicle release in corticospinal axon regeneration
Principal Investigator: Dr. Brett Hilton
Optimizing outcomes for patients presenting to emergency departments with opioid poisoning
Principal Investigators: Dr. Corinne Hohl, Dr. Brian Grunau, Dr. Andrew Kestler, Dr. Jessica Moe
Self-sterilizing Blood Storage Devices for Safer Transfusion of Platelets and Whole Blood
Principal Investigator: Dr. Jayachandran Kizhakkedathu
Assessing Remote Technologies for Return to Sport after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury in Children
Principal Investigator: Dr. Calvin Kuo
High-precision Echo Assessment and Risk Triage of heart failure using Artificial Intelligence (HEART-AI)
Principal Investigators: Dr. Christina Luong, Dr. Purang Abolmaesumi, Dr. Teresa Tsang
Lipid Nanoparticle-messenger RNA (LNP-mRNA) as a versatile therapeutic platform for brain diseases
Principal Investigator: Dr. Brian MacVicar
Red Blood Cell Deformability and Imaging as Biomarkers of Circulatory Clearance Time
Principal Investigator: Dr. Hongshen Ma
Extracellular Granzyme B Accumulates with Aging and Promotes Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Joanne Matsubara
New animal models of retinal disease with retinal deposits
Principal Investigator: Dr. Orson Moritz
Personalized symptom mapping to understand and treat persistent post-concussion symptoms
Principal Investigator: Dr. Noah Silverberg
Metabolomic biomarkers for early detection of acute cellular rejection in heart transplant recipients: a multidisciplinary approach to improve diagnostic accuracy and patient outcomes
Principal Investigator: Dr. Scott Tebbutt
Leveraging Epigenetic Reprogramming for Targeted Therapy in ARID1A/ARID1B Dual-Deficient Cancers
Principal Investigator: Dr. Yemin Wang
Preventing symptomatic post-traumatic osteoarthritis in young people at high risk: The Stop OsteoARThritis (SOAR) Randomized Controlled Trial
Principal Investigator: Dr. Jacqueline Whittaker
Endoscopic Laser Raman Spectroscopy for Minimally Invasive Detection of Peripheral Lung Cancer
Principal Investigator: Dr. Stephen Lam
Read the full list of project grant recipients
Priority Announcement Grants
Understanding Differences in Exposure to and Biomechanical Features of 'Risky' Movements between Female and Male Athletes in Soccer
Priority Announcement: Female Athlete Health
Principal Investigators: Dr. Calvin Kuo, Dr. Jacqueline Whittaker
Mapping the current landscape, treatment patterns, and access to health services for eczema patients in British Columbia
Priority Announcement: Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis
Principal Investigators: Dr. Sunil Kalia, Dr. Juan Antonio Aviña-Zubieta, Dr. Jan Dutz, Dr. Diane Lacaille, Dr. Harvey Lui
Biomechanical and imaging assessments of hip microinstability
Priority Announcement: Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis
Principal Investigator: Dr. David Wilson
Prefrontal-subcortical network mechanisms underlying risky decision making
Priority Announcement: Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction
Principal Investigator: Dr. Stan Floresco
Targeting Scn9a Na+ channels for beta cell survival and disease modification in type 1 diabetes
Priority Announcement: Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes
Principal Investigator: Dr. James Johnson
Read the full list of priority announcement grant recipients
