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: Spring 2024 competition approved a total of 373 research grants, for a total investment of approximately $325 million. In addition, 68 priority announcement grants were funded for a total amount of $7,600,000 and 5 supplemental prizes were awarded for a total of $210,000.
UBC Department of Medicine researchers have been awarded $3.5M for 4 projects at the university and its affiliated health authority research centres through the Project Grant: Spring 2024 Competition from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR).
For a full listing of all the CIHR Spring 2024 Project Grant recipients, please visit the CIHR website
FULL PROJECT GRANTS
- Arterial smooth muscle cell lysosomal acid lipase as a novel target for atherosclerosis treatment and prevention
Principal Investigator: Gordon Francis (Endocrinology & Metabolism)
- A prospective interventional study to prevent allosensitization in patients who have failed a first kidney transplant
Principal Investigator(s): John Gill (Nephrology) and James Lan (Nephrology)
- Integration of multi-resolution imaging to improve the diagnosis and treatment of fibrotic interstitial lung diseases
Principal Investigator(s): Christopher Ryerson (Respiratory Medicine) and Tillie-Louise Hackett (Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics)
- Persistent Low-Level HIV Viremia During Antiretroviral Therapy: Origins and Clinical Consequences
Principal Investigator: Viviane Lima (Infectious Diseases)
Congratulations to all on this wonderful achievement!