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 2023 competition has approved 374 research grants, plus an additional 6 bridge grants, for a total investment of approximately $325M.
UBC Department of Medicine researchers have been awarded $4.2M for 6 projects at the university and its affiliated health authority research centres through the Project Grant: Fall 2023 Competition from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR).
For a full listing of all the CIHR Fall 2023 Project Grant recipients, please visit the CIHR website
FULL PROJECT GRANTS
- Evolving Criminal Legal System Approaches, Women, Substance Use, Violence & HIV – A Qualitative Study
Principal Investigator: Andrea Krüsi (Social Medicine)
Co-Investigators: Brittany Bingham, Kathleen Deering, Danya Fast, Shira Goldenberg, Jennifer McDermid, Kate Shannon (Social Medicine)
- Personalized drug safety and targeted drug therapies for individuals with truncating titin variants
Principal Investigator: Zachary Laksman (Cardiology)
- Accelerated Lung Aging in People Living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Principal Investigator: Janice Leung (Respiratory Medicine)
Co-Investigators: Rachel Eddy, Ana Hernandez Cordero, Stephen Lam, Carli Peters, Don Sin (Respiratory Medicine); Viviane Lima, Julio Montaner (Infectious Diseases); Jonathan Leipsic (Cardiology/Radiology)
- Anti-Platelet Therapy in Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (APT-SCAD) Trial
Principal Investigatory: Jacqueline Saw (Cardiology)
PRIORITY ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Health Effects of Wood Smoke And Traffic-Related Air Pollution Exposures: A Necessary Comparison
Principal Investigators: Christopher Carlsten, Emily Brigham (Respiratory Medicine)
Co-Investigators: Christopher Rider (Respiratory Medicine)
- Environmental factors and risk of autoimmune rheumatic disease incidence and serology
Principal Investigators: Juan Avina-Zubieta (Rheumatology)
Congratulations to all on this wonderful achievement!