David Wright
PhD
Investigator, BC Children's Hospital
CIHR Project Grant (2021-26): Identifying a Novel Role for GDF15 during Exercise
CIHR Project Grant (2018-24): Targeting Exercise Activated Pathways to Offset the Metabolic Side Effects of Anti-Psychotic Drugs
NSERC Discovery Grant (2017-22): Role of Adipose Tissue and IL-6 in Liver Metabolism
Tier II Canada Research Chair in Lipids, Metabolism and Health (2010-2020)
Young Investigator Award Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology (2012)
CIHR New Investigator Award (2008-10)
Every day, our researchers work towards breakthroughs to transform the lives of kids in BC and around the world. Learn about our latest innovations and advancements in child health.
Congratulations to 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 Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Fall 2023 Project Grant competition. Our research community received around $11 million in new research grants as principal investigators or co-investigators.
For people suffering from severe mental disorders such as schizophrenia, antipsychotic drugs can help reduce a number of psychotic symptoms, such as paranoia, delusions and hallucinations. Increasingly, these medications are being used off-label to treat bipolar disorder, anxiety or severe irritability, even amongst children and adolescents. Unfortunately, these drugs can have harmful metabolic side effects…
At BC Children’s, we are making discoveries that save lives and transform health care for children in our province and around the world. Our research portfolio includes basic, clinical, population, and public health research.
EXPLORE OUR RESEARCH
Sign up for compelling stories about innovative science, the doctors and researchers who turn ideas into discoveries and treatments, and the kids and families whose lives are changed.
BC Children's Hospital Research Institute operates on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples — xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Further, this acknowledgement, gratitude, and respect extends to all of the First Nations communities on whose territories the Research Institute builds relationships and operates in British Columbia.
© 2026 BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute. All rights reserved.
Crafted with by Forge and Smith
