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91˿Ƶ gets $91.5 mln in CIHR funding

91˿Ƶ health researchers land 24 of 150 inaugural Foundation grants for high-impact, long-term programs

Researchers from 91˿Ƶ and its hospital-affiliated research institutes have been awarded $91.5 million in grants in the latest round of funding by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

Published: 28 July 2015

The grants -- which will support research into areas from brain disorders to the health effects of climate change in the Arctic -- are part of over $600 million in funding announced today by Health Minister Rona Ambrose for researchers working at universities and hospitals across Canada.

The announcement covers two categories of funding:

  • A new category, called “Foundation” grants, provides larger amounts of long-term support for innovative, high-impact programs of research; 91˿Ƶ researchers have been awarded 24 of these grants, for a total of $60.6 million.

  • Transitional Open Operating grants, for specific projects, will provide a total of more than $30 million for 44 91˿Ƶ researchers.

The Foundation grants cover a seven-year period for established investigators, and five years for early-career investigators. Four early-career researchers at 91˿Ƶ landed grants in that sub-category.

Here is a list of the 91˿Ƶ recipients of Foundation grants, indicating the institution and/or Faculty of the investigator; a description of the program; and the amount of the award. (* = early-career investigator):

· Iyer, Srividya N,  Douglas Hospital Research Centre, Medicine. Enhancing youth mental health: A program of research into mental healthcare needs, pathways, outcomes and services. $3,770,245

· Azoulay, Laurent *, Jewish General Hospital, Medicine. Cancer pharmacoepidemiology: a population-based assessment of the risks of prescription drugs in vulnerable populations. $852,701

· Chertkow, Howard M, Jewish General Hospital, Medicine. Typical and atypical Alzheimer Disease: salivary tau biomarkers, therapy with neuromodulation, and disease subtypes. $1,695,053

· Kahn, Susan R, Jewish General Hospital,  Medicine. Improving long term outcomes after venous thromboembolism (VTE). $2,050,824

· Schiffrin, Ernesto L, Jewish General Hospital,  Medicine. Vascular remodeling in hypertension and cardiometabolic disease: from mice to humans. $3,164,111         

· Cullen, Kathleen E, Medicine. Program of investigating vestibular physiology and its disorders. $2,469,570

· Dagher, Alain, Montreal Neurological Institute, Medicine. Functional Neuroimaging of dopamine systems: application to Parkinson's Disease, addiction and obesity. $2,155,301

· Ehrlicher, Allen J *, Engineering. Cellular mechanotransduction in the actin cytoskeleton.   $665,484

· Ford, James D *, Science. A research program on adaptation to the health effects of climate change in the Canadian Arctic                $753,001

· Franco, Eduardo L, Medicine. Research Program on the Epidemiology and Prevention of Human Papillomavirus Infection and Associated Cancers     $2,350,689

· Gotman, Jean, Montreal Neurological Institute, Medicine. Electrical and metabolic manifestations of human focal epilepsy     $2,291,930

· Park, Morag, Medicine. Mechanisms of Met activation in cancer and therapeutic intervention   $3,507,282               

· Petrides, Michael, Montreal Neurological Institute, Medicine. Comparative functional and anatomical study of human and monkey cortex   $1,665,281           

· Rouleau, Guy A, Montreal Neurological Institute, Medicine. Genetic & Biological Studies of Brain Disorders  $4,959,666          

· Ruthazer, Edward S, Montreal Neurological Institute, Medicine.  Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying activity-dependent neural circuit development     $2,184,958          

· Zatorre, Robert J, Montreal Neurological Institute,  Medicine.  Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience: Pathways, Processes, Plasticity and Predispositions   $1,889,652

· Bourque, Charles W  Research Institute of the 91˿Ƶ Health Centre, Medicine.   Central control of osmoregulation in health and disease   $2,719,408           

· Divangahi, Maziar * Research Institute of the 91˿Ƶ Health Centre, Medicine. Regulation of Anti-Microbial Macrophage Response to Pulmonary Infections  $1,293,210   

· Klein, Marina B Research Institute of the 91˿Ƶ Health Centre, Medicine. Tracking a revolution: Evaluating the impact of modern HCV therapy on HIV-HCV coinfection   $4,835,202

· Menzies, Richard Research Institute of the 91˿Ƶ Health Centre, Medicine. Tackling the two greatest obstacles to Tuberculosis elimination: Treatment of latent infection and drug resistant disease   $7,899,734

· Platt, Robert W  Research Institute of the 91˿Ƶ Health Centre, Medicine. Statistical Methods in Pharmacoepidemiology and Perinatal Epidemiology  $1,071,717

· Rak, Janusz  Research Institute of the 91˿Ƶ Health Centre, Medicine. Targeting vascular mechanisms of cancer progression   $3,313,788

· Schurr, Erwin A Research Institute of the 91˿Ƶ Health Centre, Medicine. Host genetic dissection of mycobacterial infection phenotypes    $2,478,941

· Seuntjens, Jan P  Research Institute of the 91˿Ƶ Health Centre, Medicine. Monte Carlo techniques in the optimization of radiation therapy delivery and outcomes $596,694

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