FALL 2019 CIHR COMPETITION RESULTS
Researchers at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) will be conducting 25 new projects designed to accelerate discoveries of benefit to human health, thanks to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Fall 2019 Project Grants Competition. The RI-MUHC teams received over $16 million in project funding.
Across Canada, the competition has approved 385 research grants and 4 bridge grants for a total investment of approximately $275 million. In addition, over $7 million was awarded for 74 priority announcement bridge grants.
The CIHR Project Grant program is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential to advance health-related fundamental or applied knowledge, health research, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes.
Congratulations to RI-MUHC grant recipients and their teams!
Project Grants
- Faiz Ahmad Khan, Glenda Sandy, Christopher Fletcher, Neil Andersson
Community Health Workers in Tuberculosis Prevention & Care Services in Nunavik - Carolyn Baglole, Ilan Azuelos
Prognostic and Therapeutic Utility of Human Antigen R (HuR) in Fibrosis - Swneke Bailey
Investigating the Molecular Determinants of Peritoneal Metastasis from Gastro-Esophageal Adenocarcinomas - Geneviève Bernard
Unraveling the molecular basis of novel forms of hypomyelinating leukodystrophies - Nancy Braverman
Developing retinal gene augmentation therapy for Zellweger Spectrum Disorder - Pnina Brodt
Regulatory circuits controlling the immune microenvironment of liver metastases - Stella Daskalopoulou
Early Prediction of preeclampsia Using arteriaL Stiffness in high-risk prEgnancies; a multinational study (PULSE) - Samuel David
Ferroptosis-mediated damage in Chronic EAE: implications for Progressive MS - Maziar Divangahi
Targeting the eicosanoid/macrophage axis to enhance host defense against influenza virus infection - Maziar Divangahi
Reprogramming HSCs to generate protective trained immunity against TB - Julio Fiore Jr
Opioid versus opioid-free analgesia after surgical discharge: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Jacques Genest Jr
Familial Hypercholesterolemia in Canada: Precision and Personalized Approaches to Increase Identification and Improve Clinical outcomes - Wassim Kassouf
Implication of neutrophil extracellular traps in the efficacy of bladder-sparing therapy in muscle invasive bladder cancer - Ivan Litvinov
Ectopic reactivation of normally silenced germ cell programs contributes to genomic instability, carcinogenesis and cancer progression in Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphomas (CTCL). - Monzur Murshed
Understanding the mechanism of vascular elastocalcinosis and its prevention by MGP - Basil Petrof
Understanding the basis of diaphragmatic weakness in critical illness - Giada Sebastiani
The role of fatty liver in the epidemic of advanced chronic liver disease among people living with HIV - Elena Torban
Actin regulation of ciliogenesis: unraveling novel mechanisms of human ciliopathies caused by mutations in the PCP effector genes - Simon Wing
USP19 in metabolism - mechanisms and translation
Priority announcements
- Stéphanie Chevalier
A novel multimodal intervention for surgical prehabilitation of patients with lung cancer - Andrey Cybulsky
Defining the role of ER stress in glomerular disease: identification of new therapeutic and diagnostic targets - Maia Kokoeva
Could mitotic exhaustion of NG2-glia explain the remyelination deficit in MS? - Ivan Litvinov
Prize: Early Career Investigator in Cancer - Dan Poenaru
WeChoose: a mixed-methods study for developing a personalized risk communication tool in pediatric surgery - Myriam Srour, Dorothy Barthelemy
The physiological, molecular and genetic mechanisms underlying lateralization of motor control
Learn more on the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) website
—Published January 30, 2020