The CIHR Fall 2023 competition has approved 374 research grants and 6 bridge grants, for a total investment of $325 million.
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has announced the results of its Fall 2023 project grant competition. Congratulations to all the VCHRI researchers who were awarded project grants and priority announcement grants.
Project Grants
Personalized drug safety and targeted drug therapies for individuals with truncating titin variants
Principle Investigator: Dr. Zachary Laksman
Investigating altered sensorimotor processing in Huntington disease
Principle Investigator: Dr. Lynn Raymond
Psilocybin Assisted Therapy (PAT) for Treatment Resistant Depression in Bipolar II Disorder (TRD.BD-II): A Randomized Controlled Trial
Principle Investigators: Drs. Lakshmi Yatham, Kyooseob Ha, Muhammad Husain, Kamyar Keramatian, Joshua Rosenblat, Gayatri Saraf
Optogenetic stimulation after spinal cord injury in rodents
Principle Investigator: Dr. Dena Shahriari
Read the full list of priority announcement grant recipients
Priority Announcement Grants
Health Effects of Wood Smoke And Traffic-Related Air Pollution Exposures: A Necessary Comparison
Priority Announcement: Health and Climate Change
Principal Investigators: Drs. Christopher Carlsten, Emily Brigham
EPIC Health: Exercise in Perimenopause to Improve Cognitive Health
Priority Announcement: Aging
Principal Investigators: Drs. Teresa Liu-Ambrose, Cindy Barha, Liisa Galea, Linda Li
Implementation research to improve scale-up of the delivery of evidence-based community exercise programs for stroke
Priority Announcement: Patient-Oriented Research
Principal Investigators: Drs. Janice Eng, Taru Manyanga, Courtney Pollock, Brodie Sakakibara
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