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Dr. Molly Cairncross<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Brain, Behaviour & Development Dr. Angela Devlin<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Healthy Starts Dr. Quynh Doan<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Evidence to Innovation Dr. Calvin Kuo<\/strong> Dr. Francis Lynn<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Dr. Megan Levings<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Dr. Bruce Verchere<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Childhood Diseases Dr. Louise M\u00e2sse<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Evidence to Innovation Dr. Christopher Maxwell<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Childhood Diseases Dr. Manon Ranger<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Healthy Starts Dr. Laura Schummers<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Healthy Starts Dr. Thiviya Selvanathan<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Brain, Behaviour & Development Dr. Stefan Taubert<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Dr. Francis Lynn<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Childhood Diseases Dr. Matthew Wiens<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Healthy Starts Dr. Devon Greyson<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Healthy Starts Dr. Sunil Kalia<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Evidence to Innovation,\u00a0Dr. Jan Peter Dutz<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Childhood Diseases Dr. Stuart Turvey<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Healthy Starts Dr. Bruce Verchere<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Childhood Diseases Dr. David Wilson<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Evidence to Innovation Congratulations to the investigators and their teams who were awarded funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Fall 2024 Project Grant competition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2487,"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-2473","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\/2473","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/levingslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/levingslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2492,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/levingslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions\/2492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/levingslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/levingslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/levingslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/levingslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
BCCHR co-investigators:\u00a0Dr. Shelina Babul<\/a>,\u00a0Dr. Quynh Doan<\/a>,\u00a0Dr. Jacqueline Purtzki<\/a>
Project: \u201cMindfulness app for concussion recovery (MACRO) feasibility trial: A digital mindfulness-based intervention for adolescents with persisting symptoms after concussion<\/a>\u201d
Funding amount: $447,525 over two years, six months<\/p>\n\n
BCCHR co-investigators:\u00a0Dr. Crystal Karakochuk<\/a>,\u00a0Dr. Francis Lynn<\/a>,\u00a0Dr. Alejandra Wiedeman
Project: \u201cUnderstanding the impact of maternal folic acid intake on gestational diabetes and offspring pancreatic islet cell development<\/a>\u201d
Funding amount: $918,000 over five years<\/p>\n\n
Project: \u201cCultural adaptation and validation of MyHEARTSMAP, a digital psychosocial instrument, for Chinese youth and families in Canada<\/a>\u201d
Funding amount: $202,726 over three years<\/p>\n\n
BCCHR co-PIs:\u00a0Dr. Tim Bhatnagar<\/a>,\u00a0Dr. Lise A. Leveille<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 Evidence to Innovation
Project: \u201cAssessing remote technologies for return to sport after anterior cruciate ligament injury in children<\/a>\u201d
Funding amount: $623,475 over five years<\/p>\n\n
Project: \u201cBuilding better beta cells in order to improve stem cell-derived islet transplantation outcomes<\/a>\u201d
Funding amount: $1,120,725 over five years<\/p>\n\n
BCCHR co-investigators:\u00a0Dr. Mariana Brussoni<\/a>,\u00a0Dr. Tamara Cohen<\/a>,\u00a0Dr. Hasina Samji<\/a>
Project: \u201cBridging the gap: Evaluating the real-world impact of comprehensive school health initiatives on physical activity, nutrition, and mental health\/well-being of elementary school children<\/a>\u201d
Funding amount: $1,650,105 over five years<\/p>\n\n
Project: \u201cElucidate the targetable mechanisms underpinning the development of a pregnancy-associated breast cancer in\u00a0BRCA1<\/em>\u00a0mutation carriers<\/a>\u201d
Funding amount: $1,074,825 over five years<\/p>\n\n
Project: \u201cDetermining the neuroprotective effects of insulin-like growth factor-1 on neurodevelopmental impairments related to neonatal pain and sucrose-induced inflammatory stress<\/a>\u201d
Funding amount: $734,400 over five years<\/p>\n\n
BCCHR co-investigator:\u00a0Dr. Wendy V. Norman<\/a>
Project: \u201cEffect of Canada\u2019s first universal contraception subsidy on access, pregnancy outcomes, and costs: A population-based controlled interrupted time series study<\/a>\u201d
Funding amount: $929,476 over four years<\/p>\n\n
BCCHR co-investigators:\u00a0Dr. Julia Charlton<\/a>,\u00a0Dr. Mor Cohen-Eilig<\/a>,\u00a0Dr. Ram Mishaal<\/a>,\u00a0Dr. Alexander Rauscher<\/a>,\u00a0Dr. Alexander Weber<\/a>
Project: \u201cBrain connectome and neurodevelopment in neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy<\/a>\u201d
Funding amount: $615,825 over five years<\/p>\n\n
Project: \u201cRole of mediator subunit Med15 in maturation and resilience of endocrine cells in the pancreas<\/a>\u201d
Funding amount: $1,063,350 over five years<\/p>\n\n
BCCHR co-investigators:\u00a0Dr. Liisa Holsti<\/a>,\u00a0Dr. Niranjan Kissoon<\/a>,\u00a0Dr. Pascal Lavoie<\/a>\u00a0
Project: \u201cSmart Discharges for newborns with sepsis: A personalized public health approach for improving discharge and post-discharge care in low-resource settings<\/a>\u201d
Funding amount: $1,690,651 over four years, six months<\/p>\n\nProject Grant \u2014 Priority Announcements<\/h3>\n\n
Project: \u201cWhen clinicians misinform: Assessing and understanding the impact of expert-provided misinformation on trans and gender diverse populations<\/a>\u201d
Funding amount: $100,000 over one year<\/p>\n\n
BCCHR co-investigator:\u00a0Dr. Wingfield Rehmus<\/a>
Project: \u201cMapping the current landscape, treatment patterns, and access to health services for eczema patients in British Columbia<\/a>\u201d
Funding amount: $100,000 over one year<\/p>\n\n
Project: \u201cHarnessing early life developmental trajectories and the gut microbiota to identify new ways to predict and prevent asthma<\/a>\u201d
Funding amount: $100,000 over one year<\/p>\n\n
Project: \u201cIslet macrophages: Regulators of beta cell function in health and diabetes<\/a>\u201d
Funding amount: $100,000 over one year<\/p>\n\n
BCCHR co-investigator:\u00a0Dr. Alexander Rauscher<\/a>
Project: \u201cBiomechanical and imaging assessments of hip microinstability<\/a>\u201d
Funding amount: $100,000 over one year<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"