The Project Grant program is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential to advance health-related fundamental or applied knowledge, health research, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes. It supports projects or programs of research proposed and conducted by individual researchers or groups of researchers in all areas of health. The Project Grants: Fall 2019 competition has approved 385 research grants, plus an additional 4 bridge grants, for a total investment of approximately $275M.
UBC Department of Medicine researchers have been awarded $4.5M for 9 projects at the university and its affiliated health authority research centres through the Project Grant: Fall 2019 Competition from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR).
FULL PROJECT GRANTS
Sean Barbour (Division of Nephrology) – $292,976
Development of a personalized medicine approach to corticosteroid treatment in IgA nephropathy
Liam Brunham (Division of General Internal Medicine) and John Boyd (Division of Respiratory Medicine) – $612,000
CETP Inhibition as a novel treatment to remove pathogen lipids and improve survival in sepsis
Pierre-Julien Coulaud (Division of AIDS) – $19,992
Establishing an international research collaboration to improve health outcomes associated with cannabis use among 2SLGBTQ+ youth
Gerald DaRoza (Division of Nephrology) – $474,299
Novel hyperbranched polyglycerol-derived biliary excretable osmotic agents for peritoneal dialysis – preclinical evaluation
Kathleen Deering (Division of AIDS) – $956,250
Longitudinal impacts of violence and stigma on HIV care continuum and broader health care access among WLWH: the SHAWNA Project
Greg Halijan (Division of Critical Care) – $348,076
Unplanned Hospital Readmission Following Critical Illness Survival: An Investigation of the Survivor-Family Dyad
Kate Shannon (Division of Substance Use and Sexual Health) – $960,075
Towards Equitable Sexual Health Care in BC: Centring the Voices of Cis and Trans Feminine Youth and Young Women in Policy and Practice
Noah Silverberg (Division of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) – $749,700
Mobilizing early management of mental health complications after mild traumatic brain injury (M4)
PRIORITY ANNOUNCEMENT GRANTS
Robin Hsiung (Division of Neurology) – $100,000
Diagnostic and predictive biomarkers for Frontotemporal Dementia with TDP-43 pathology