Teams from The Institute received $16.2 million in project funding

SOURCE: Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (The Institute) and CIHR
July 23, 2025

Researchers at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (The Institute) will embark on 17 new projects designed to accelerate discoveries of benefit to human health, thanks to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Spring 2025 Project Grants Competition. The Institute teams received $16.2 million in project funding.

Across Canada, this competition approved 435 research grants for a total investment of approximately $411 million. In addition, 46 priority announcement grants were funded for a total amount of over $5.1 million and 9 supplemental prizes were awarded for a total of $310K.

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 take great pride in the accomplishments of The Institute's grant recipients and their teams. Their innovative projects, supported through this competition, promise to significantly enhance Canadian healthcare across various critical domains," said Dr. Rhian Touyz, Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer at The Institute. "These outcomes underscore the unwavering commitment and exceptional caliber of our research community."

Congratulations to The Institute's grant recipients and their teams!

PROJECT GRANTS

• Alex Baldwin
  Phenotyping the behavioural impacts of Visual Snow Syndrome and their relation to everyday function

• Mariane Bertagnolli
  Investigating the Role of THBS1/TGF-beta Signaling in Placental Endothelial Cell and Vascular Function in Preeclampsia

• Kaberi Dasgupta
  Activating at-risk Pregnant persons through step tracking and weekly targets to reduce adverse Outcomes and Cardiometabolic Consequences (APOCC)

• Natalie Dayan
  Prediction of short-term and longer-term postpartum cardiovascular outcomes using a weighted cumulative exposure approach

• Maziar Divangahi
  Identifying Correlates of Protection Against TB for Novel Vaccine Development

• Daniel Dufort
  Elucidating the role of Nodal signaling in modulating the immune response during pregnancy

• Claire Godard-Sebillotte
  Améliorer l'équité en première ligne pour les personnes avec troubles neurocognitifs majeurs: Une étude à méthodes mixtes axée sur le patient

• Wei-Hsiang Huang
  Molecular pathogenesis of Smith-Magenis syndrome and developing therapy using hiPSC-derived neuronal models

• David Labbé
  Epigenetic control of MYC-driven metabolic adaptations in aggressive prostate cancer

• Jean-Jacques Lebrun
  Crisperized Medicine for Therapeutic Profiling and Drug Repositioning

• Judy Luu
  Understanding Sex and Gender Differences in the Impact of Psychological Distress on Cardiovascular Disease Progression

• Arielle Mendel
  Dose of Induction Methylprednisolone in Severe ANCA-Associated Vasculitis (DIMeS-AAV)

• Anie Philip
  Pre-clinical development of a peptide biologic for the treatment of idiopathic and scleroderma-related lung fibrosis

• Salman Qureshi
  Functional characterization of novel fungal host resistance genes

• Abhinav Sharma
  Deconstructing the phenotypic heterogeneity of type-2-diabetes associated with cardiovascular outcomes through multi-omics profiling and clinical clustering: DECIDE-CCVS program

• Jacquetta Trasler
  Paternal Age and the Risks of Adverse Perinatal, Neurodevelopmental and Epigenetic Outcomes in Children

PRIORITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Simon Rousseau
  The evolving landscape of Long COVID: identifying dynamic molecular features to improve diagnosis, prognostication and identification of novel treatment targets

Learn more on the Canadian Institutes of Health Research website.

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