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 2020 competition has approved 354 research grants for a total investment of approximately $274M.
UBC Department of Medicine researchers have been awarded $3.2M for 4 projects at the university and its affiliated health authority research centres through the Project Grant: Fall 2020 Competition from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR).
FULL PROJECT GRANTS
Principal Investigator: Rod Knight (Division of Social Medicine) – $478,126 (3 years)
Identifying the impact of cannabis use on mental health outcomes among sexual and gender minority youth: A mixed-methods study
Principal Investigator: Martin McKeown (Division of Neurology) – $841,270 (5 years)
In silico Design of Precision Electrical Stimuli for Electrical Vestibular Stimulation in Parkinson’s Disease.
Principal Investigator: Melanie Murray (Division of Infectious Diseases) – $382,500 (5 years)
Role of Female Sex Hormones on Aging in Women Living with HIV.
Principal Investigator: Robin Hsiung (Division of Neurology) – $1,503,224 (4 years)
Evaluating the potential of blood biomarkers to improve Alzheimer’s Disease risk stratification
Please visit CIHR for a full list of Project Grant Recipients and a full list of Institute Priority Announcement Grant Recipients.