{"id":2331,"date":"2022-07-26T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/levingslab\/?p=2331"},"modified":"2026-05-14T16:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:15:21","slug":"congratulations-cihr-spring-2022-project-grant-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/levingslab\/2022\/07\/26\/congratulations-cihr-spring-2022-project-grant-recipients\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations CIHR Spring 2022 Project Grant recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR) and Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI) investigators and their teams who were awarded funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Spring 2022 Project Grant competition. Our research community received around $15 million in new research grants as principal investigators or co-investigators.<\/p>\n\n

Many of the investigators who were successful with these grants benefited from the expertise of Dr. Dawn McArthur, director, Research & Technology Development and the BCCHR Research & Technology Development Office (RTDO) team. On behalf of BCCHR, we would like to thank the RTDO’s Dr. Tamara English, senior research development facilitator; Mr. Eric Lussier, research development facilitator (BCCHR\/WHRI); Ms. Rita Jekabsons, senior research development coordinator; and the RTDO grants assistants for their dedication and support.<\/p>\n\n

BCCHR and WHRI investigators had a funding success rate of 28 per cent, compared to the national average of 19 per cent. With the success of the spring 2022 competition behind them, the RTDO team is already assisting with resubmissions for the fall 2022 competition.<\/p>\n\n

View the CIHR summary of Spring 2022 Project Grant results.<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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Project Grants<\/strong>
Dr. Daniel Goldowitz<\/a>\u00a0and Dr. Paul Pavlidis (UBC) \u2013 Brain, Behaviour & Development
Project:\u00a0“Pax6 regulation of glutamatergic lineages in cerebellar development”<\/a>
Funding amount: $841,500\/5 years<\/p>\n\n

Dr. Blair Leavitt<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Brain, Behaviour & Development
Project:\u00a0“Lipid Nanoparticle-Mediated Delivery of CRISPR\/Cas9 Gene Editing for Neurological Disorders”<\/a>
Funding amount: $761,176\/5 years<\/p>\n\n

Dr. Peter C. Leung<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Dr. Alexander G. Beristain<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Healthy Starts
Project:\u00a0“Role of BMP2 signaling at the maternal-fetal interface”<\/a>
Funding amount: $735,356\/5 years<\/p>\n\n

Dr. Sarka Lisonkova<\/a>\u00a0and Dr. Neda Razaz (UBC) \u2013 Healthy Starts
WHRI and BCCHR Co-investigators:\u00a0Dr. Ruth Grunau<\/a>,\u00a0Dr. K. S. Joseph<\/a>,\u00a0Dr. Tim Oberlander<\/a>,\u00a0Dr. Joseph Ting<\/a>
Project:\u00a0“Health and neurodevelopmental trajectories of children and adolescents born at preterm and term gestation”<\/a>
Funding amount: $442,170\/5 years<\/p>\n\n

Dr. Deborah Money (WHRI)
WHRI and BCCHR Co-investigators: \u00a0Dr. Arianne Albert,\u00a0Dr. Manish Sadarangani<\/a>, Dr. Chelsea Elwood,\u00a0Dr. Gina Ogilvie<\/a>, Dr. Elisabeth McClymont<\/a>
Project:\u00a0“A study of reduced dosing of the nonavalent HPV Vaccine in Women Living with HIV”<\/a>
Funding amount: $1,606,500\/5 years<\/p>\n\n

Dr. William J. Panenka<\/a>, Dr. Thalia Field (UBC),\u00a0Dr. Allen Thornton<\/a>\u00a0and Dr. Cheryl Wellington<\/a> (UBC) \u2013 Brain, Behaviour & Development
WHRI and BCCHR Co-investigators:\u00a0Dr. Alasdair Barr<\/a>,\u00a0Dr. William Honer<\/a>,\u00a0Dr. Donna Lang<\/a>, Dr. Jacob Stubbs (BCMHSUS)
Project:\u00a0“Traumatic brain injury and cerebral small vessel disease in a vulnerably housed cohort, a prelude to early neurodegeneration and dementia”<\/a>
Funding amount: $1,434,376\/5 years<\/p>\n\n

Dr. Alexander Rauscher<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Brain, Behaviour & Development
Project:\u00a0“Quantitative susceptibility mapping from clinical phase data”<\/a>
Funding amount: $275,400\/3 years<\/p>\n\n

Dr. Amanda Slaunwhite (UBC),\u00a0Dr. Tonia Nicholls<\/a>\u00a0and Dr. Christian Schutz (UBC) \u2013 Brain, Behaviour & Development
WHRI and BCCHR Co-investigators: Dr. Hasina Samji<\/a>
Project:\u00a0“An evaluation of the health, criminal justice and service use outcomes of the Ministry of Health assuming responsibility for prison health care services in BC (PRISM-BC)”<\/a>
Funding amount: $638,776\/4 years<\/p>\n\n

Dr. Patricia Spittal<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Healthy Starts
Project:\u00a0“The Cedar Project: Strengthening our spirit intervention for Indigenous peoples who use drugs in two Canadian cities”<\/a>
Funding amount: $2,297,191<\/p>\n\n

Dr. Aline Talhouk (UBC\/VCHRI), Dr. Michael Anglesio<\/a> (UBC), Dr. Janet Hill (UBC), Dr. Deborah Money (WHRI) and Dr. Anna Tinker (UBC) \u2013 Healthy Starts
WHRI and BCCHR Co-investigators:\u00a0Dr. Mohamed Bedaiwy\u00a0(WHRI)
Project:\u00a0“Digital self-tracking and self-testing for early detection of endometrial cancer”<\/a>
Funding amount: $879,750\/5 years<\/p>\n\n

Dr. Paul Yong<\/a>, Dr. Michael Anglesio<\/a> (UBC), Dr. Amanda Howard (MSFHR\/UBC),\u00a0Dr. Mohamed Ali Bedaiwy<\/a>\u00a0and Dr. Aline Talhouk (UBC\/VCHRI) \u2013 Healthy Starts
WHRI and BCCHR Co-investigators: Dr. Gillian Hanley, Natasha Orr
Project:\u00a0“Clinical-biomarker predictors of outcome after endometriosis surgery”<\/a>
Funding amount: $784,125\/4 years<\/p>\n\n

Dr. Amy Lee (SFU) and\u00a0Dr. Pascal Lavoie<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Healthy Starts
BCCHR Co-investigator: Dr. Matthew Wiens<\/a>
Project:\u00a0“Molecular epidemiology of neonatal sepsis in low- and middle-income countries”<\/a>
Funding amount: $543,152\/4 years<\/p>\n\n

Dr. Hongshen Ma (UBC)
BCCHR Co-investigator:\u00a0Dr. Megan Levings<\/a>
Project:\u00a0“Behaviour-based cell separation to interrogate host cell heterogeneity in CAR-T cell therapies”<\/a>
Funding amount: $864,450\/5 years<\/p>\n\n

Dr. Robert Fowler (Sunnybrook Research Institute) and\u00a0Dr. Srinivas Murthy<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Healthy Starts
Project:\u00a0“The Canadian Severe Acute Respiratory Infection, Prospective, Perpetual Observational Study: Informing Clinical Care and the Public Health Response”<\/a>
Funding amount: $761,174\/3 years<\/p>\n\n

Dr. Todd Woodward<\/a>, Dr. Michael Best, Dr. Christopher Bowie, Dr. Faye Doell, Dr. George Foussias, Dr. Michael Grossman, Dr. Sean Kidd, Dr. Mahesh Menon and Dr. Wei Wang \u2013 Brain, Behaviour & Development
Project:\u00a0“Efficacy of Combined Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Cognitive Remediation Therapy for Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders: A randomized controlled trial”<\/a>
Funding amount: $956,250\/5 years<\/p>\n\n

Dr. Todd Woodward<\/a>, Dr. Martin Lepage, Dr. Synthia Guimond and Dr. Mahesh Menon \u2013 Brain, Behaviour & Development
Project:\u00a0“From episodic memory to functioning in schizophrenia and related psychoses: A neurocognitive model”<\/a>
Funding amount: $979,000\/5 years<\/p>\n\n

Dr. Hasina Samji<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Brain, Behaviour & Development
BCCHR Co-investigators:\u00a0Dr. Mariana Brussoni<\/a>,\u00a0Dr. S. Evelyn Stewart<\/a>
Project:\u00a0\u201cThe Youth Development Instrument: Engaging stakeholders and linking data to monitor and promote youth mental health and well-being trajectories beyond the pandemic\u201d<\/a>
Funding amount: $554,624\/3 years<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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