Michael Hawkes
MD, PhD
Investigator and Pediatric Infectious Diseases Consultant, BC Children's Hospital
2022-23: A Phase 1 Clinical Trial of a Peptide-Based Group A Streptococcal Vaccine ($402,499). Funding Source: CIHR Operating Grant - Clinical Trials Projects. Role: Nominated Principal Applicant
2022-23: CoLab Oxygen as a service: solar powered oxygen cylinder filling stations ($129,780). Funding Source: DT-Global, Brink Co. (United Kingdom). Role: Principal Applicant
2020: Solar Oxygen Somalia ($44,858). Funding Source: Grand Challenges Canada. Role: Principal Applicant
2020-24: Human Cytomegalovirus as a Driver of Adverse Health Outcomes among Children Exposed to HIV in Utero ($800,000). Funding Source: CIHR/IRSC, Project Grant. Role: Co-Principal Investigator
2020: CONCOR-KIDS. A randomized, multicentered, open-label Phase 2 clinical trial of the safety and efficacy of human coronavirus-immune convalescent plasma for the treatment of COVID-19 disease in hospitalized children. Funding Source: Northern Alberta Clinical Trials + Research Centre (NACTRC). Role: Co-investigator
2019: Biomarkers of childhood pneumonia ($40,000). Funding Source: Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology Research Support & Innovation Grant. Role: Principal Investigator
2019: A feasibility study evaluating a medium-pressure reservoir storage system for continuous oxygen delivery (Kenya) ($64,200). Funding Source: Intellectual Ventures, Global Good Fund. Role: Principal Investigator
2019: A reservoir nasal cannula for oxygen sparing in children with hypoxemia (Uganda) ($67,275). Funding Source: Intellectual Ventures, Global Good Fund. Role: Principal Investigator
2019: Solar Powered Oxygen Delivery in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ($76,524). Funding Source: Rotary Club of Butembo Semuliki, DRC; Rotary Club of Stratford, Ontario, Canada; Rotary International District 9150, Rotary International and the Government of Canada through Rotary Canada. Role: Principal Investigator
2019-2020: Distinguished Researcher, Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation. Solar Powered Oxygen Delivery ($500,000). Funding Source: Women and Children's Health Research Institute and Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation, University of Alberta. Role: Principal Applicant
2019-2020: Solar Powered Oxygen Delivery: Transition to Scale ($500,000). Funding Source: Grand Challenges Canada. Role: Principal Applicant
2018-2021: Neuroprotective agents for cerebral malaria ($251,561). Funding Source: CIHR Operating Grant - New Investigator Grants in Maternal, Reproductive, Child & Youth Health. Role: Principal Applicant
2018: Distinguished Researcher, Stollery Science Lab
2014: American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Travel Award
2014: Grand Challenges Canada: Stars in Global Health
2013: John Leyerle-CIFAR Prize for Interdisciplinary Research
2013: Grand Challenges Canada: Stars in Global Health
2013: CIHR Post-Doctoral Fellowship Award
2012: Dr. Susan King Award (Best Abstract on a Pediatric Topic)
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Globally, infectious diseases such as pneumonia and malaria are among the leading causes of death for children under five. Pneumonia alone claims the lives of more than 700,000 children under five annually, largely in low- and middle-income countries. A contributing factor is a shortage of essential health-care equipment and other resources for diagnosing and treating life-threatening cases…
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