{"id":1427,"date":"2021-06-30T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/navyblue.bcmultistaging.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2026-05-13T16:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:40:05","slug":"congratulations-2021-cihr-project-grant-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/levingslab\/2021\/06\/30\/congratulations-2021-cihr-project-grant-recipients\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations 2021 CIHR Project Grant Recipients!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"fndry-heading\">Congratulations, Dr. Levings!<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 25%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congratulations to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/research\/find-a-researcher\/megan-levings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr. Megan Levings<\/a>, recipient of a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/webapps.cihr-irsc.gc.ca\/decisions\/p\/project_details.html?applId=441646&amp;lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CIHR Team Grant: Preparation to Trial: Inflammation for Chronic Conditions<\/a>\u00a0for the project, &#8220;Allogeneic thymus-derived Tregs to prevent chronic inflammation in transplantation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/levingslab\/files\/2025\/01\/megan-levings-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2369 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/levingslab\/files\/2025\/01\/megan-levings-web.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/levingslab\/files\/2025\/01\/megan-levings-web-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"fndry-paragraph\">Principal investigators: Dr. Megan Levings, Dr. Ilona Dijke, Dr. Lori West<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"fndry-paragraph\">Co-investigators: Sylvain B\u00e9dard, Dr. Bethany Foster; Dr. Kevin Hay, Dr. Kednapa Thavorn<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"fndry-heading\">Congratulations, Dr. Schultz!<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 25%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congratulations to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/research\/find-a-researcher\/kirk-schultz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr. Kirk Schultz<\/a>, principal investigator and recipient of a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/webapps.cihr-irsc.gc.ca\/decisions\/p\/project_details.html?applId=441672&amp;lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CIHR Team Grant: Preparation to Trial: Inflammation for Chronic Conditions<\/a>\u00a0for the project, &#8220;Regulatory natural killer cell treatment in chronic graft-versus-host disease and solid organ transplantation chronic rejection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/levingslab\/files\/2025\/01\/kirk-schultz-preferred-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2412 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/levingslab\/files\/2025\/01\/kirk-schultz-preferred-web.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/levingslab\/files\/2025\/01\/kirk-schultz-preferred-web-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"fndry-paragraph\"><br>Co-investigators:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/research\/find-a-researcher\/ramon-klein-geltink\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr. Ramon Klein Geltink<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/research\/find-a-researcher\/keegan-korthauer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr. Keegan Korthauer<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/research\/find-a-researcher\/suzanne-vercauteren\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr. Suzanne Vercauteren<\/a>, Dr.\u00a0Jean-S\u00e9bastien Delisle, Dr. M\u00e9lanie Dieud\u00e9, Dr. Bethany Foster, Dr. Paul Keown, Dr. Karen Sherwood<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Dr. Megan Levings and Dr. Kirk Schultz, recipients of 2021 CIHR Project Grants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","fndry_alternate_title":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-awards"],"modified_by":"Andrea Sakamoto","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/levingslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/levingslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/levingslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/levingslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/levingslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/levingslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2414,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/levingslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions\/2414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/levingslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/levingslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/levingslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/levingslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}