Kiran K. Soma
PhD
Affiliate Investigator, BC Children's Hospital
CIHR Operating Grant
NSERC Discovery Grant
CFI Leaders Fund
CIHR New Investigator (2004-2009), MSFHR Scholar (2004-2009)
AAAS Fellow (2015)
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Congratulations to the BC Children's and BC Women's investigators who were awarded funding through the highly competitive Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant Fall 2019 competition. Our research community received more than $8 million in new research and bridge grants.
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