RI-MUHC teams received $13.65 million in project funding

SOURCE: RI-MUHC and CIHR
February 16, 2024

Researchers at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) will embark on 21 new projects designed to accelerate discoveries of benefit to human health, thanks to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Fall 2023 Project Grants Competition. The RI-MUHC teams received over $13.65 million in project funding.

Across Canada, the competition has approved 374 research grants plus six bridge grants for a total investment of approximately $325 million. In addition, 150 priority announcement grants were funded for a total amount of over $16.42 million and 14 supplemental prizes were awarded for a total of $450K.

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.

“We are extremely proud of the success of RI-MUHC grant recipients and their teams and confident that their projects funded in this competition will impact Canadian health care across the lifespan in so many important spheres,” says Dr. Rhian Touyz, Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer, RI-MUHC. “These results testify to the dedication and excellence of the RI-MUHC research community.”

Congratulations to RI-MUHC grant recipients and their teams!

PROJECT GRANTS

• Carolyn Baglole
  Decoding how the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) controls cigarette smoke-induced lung inflammation and development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• Yen-I Chen, Nauzer Forbes
  A novel through-the-scope exchangeable double balloon catheter to guide endoscopic bypass: a practice-changing technology in the management of malignant gastric outlet obstruction
• Nathalie Lamarche-Vane
  Netrin-1 receptor "deleted in colorectal cancer" (DCC) signalosome in axonal development
• Monzur Murshed
  Understanding how a novel mutation in matrix Gla protein causes skeletal anomalies
• Cristian O'Flaherty
  Sperm capacitation: A brand new perspective to tackle idiopathic male infertility
• Madhukar Pai
  Empowering informal healthcare providers to detect tuberculosis using tongue swabs: a field-based, open-label, cluster randomized trial in India
• Ciriaco A. Piccirillo
  Modelling of human FOXP3+ regulatory T cell functional development in health and disease using artificial thymic organoids.
• Christian E. Rocheleau
  Understanding polarized EGFR trafficking and signal regulation by RAB-10/8 and AP-1
• Shaifali Sandal
  A health systems approach to improve the care of kidney transplant recipients with graft failure
• Per Jesper Sjöström
  Unconventional NMDAR Signalling
• Per Jesper Sjöström
  Neocortical Circuits in Health and Disease
• Tomoko Takano, Ciriaco A. Piccirillo
  Pathogenesis of idiopathic nephrotic syndrome: defining the role of B cells and autoantibodies reactive to podocyte proteins
• George Thanassoulis
  Genomics of Aortic Stenosis - An International Collaboration
• Rhian M. Touyz
  Vascular redox signaling and Nox5 define the vasculome in hypertension
• Jacquetta M. Trasler
  Detecting and preventing epigenetic defects and adverse health outcomes associated with assisted reproduction

PRIORITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

Pandemic Preparedness and Health Emergencies

• Andrea Benedetti, Brett D. Thombs
  Recovering from the COVID-19 Pandemic, Informing Future Public Health Crises, and Building a Global Evidence Base for Mental Health Research: A Systematic Review of COVID-19-related Mental Health

Project Grant - Priority Announcement: Health and Climate Change

• Sasha R. Bernatsky, Hong Chen, Audrey Smargiassi, Juan A. Avina-Zubieta
  Environmental factors and risk of autoimmune rheumatic disease incidence and serology

Sex and Gender in Health Research (Bridge funding)

• Stella S. Daskalopoulou
  Identifying the Role of Sex Hormones in Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaque Instability

Research in human development, child and/or youth health in Indigenous populations

• Patricia T. Li, Ryan Giroux, Matthew Carwana, Gita Wahi, Tania Principi, Samina Ali, Ananya T. Banerjee, Evelyn Constantin, Ugochinyere Viv Ukah, Brett S. Burstein, Suzette R. Cooke, Gabrielle Freire, Christina I. Maratta, Jessica L. Foulds, Olivier Drouin, Nathalie Orr-Gaucher, April Kam, Shazeen Suleman
  Race, Ethnicity, Indigenous identity and Language preference for Pediatric research in the hospital setting (REIaL-P)

HIV/AIDS and STBBI

• Nitika Pai, Qihuang Zhang, Samira Abbasgholizadeh Rahimi, Nora Engel, Suma Nair, Susan J. Bartlett
  Feasibility of AnkaSmart!: a wearable-based innovation to improve sexual and reproductive health of young adult populations in India

Aging

• Jeremy Van Raamsdonk
  Role of biological resilience pathways in longevity and neuroprotection

Learn more on the Canadian Institutes of Health Research website