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
