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 2023 competition has approved 381 research grants, plus an additional 12 bridge grants, for a total investment of approximately $325M.
UBC Department of Medicine researchers have been awarded $5.6M for 8 projects at the university and its affiliated health authority research centres through the Project Grant: Spring 2023 Competition from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR).
For a full listing of all the CIHR Spring 2023 Project Grant recipients, please visit the CIHR website
FULL PROJECT GRANTS
- Brittany Bingham (Division of Social Medicine) – $1,411,426
AMPLIFY: Elevating the stories of Indigenous women, gender diverse, and Two-Spirit peoples
- Emily Brigham (Division of Respiratory Medicine) – $921,826
FIRE-Diet: Food as an Intervention to Reduce the Effects of Woodsmoke Exposure on Respiratory Health
- Jonathan Loree (Division of Medical Oncology) – $260,101
STOPNET – A Randomized Study of Cessation of Somatostatin Analogues after Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy in Mid and Hind Gut Neuroendocrine Tumours
- Theodore Steiner (Division of Infectious Diseases) – $925,650
Exploring the potential of type-1 regulatory T cells in resolution and recovery from intestinal inflammation
- Karen Tran (Division of General Internal Medicine) – $956,250
Telehealth for Emergency-Community Continuity of Care Connectivity via Home Blood Pressure Telemonitoring (TEC4HOME-BP)
- Yu Tian Wang (Division of Neurology) – $944,776
Physiological and pathological regulation of GABAA receptor functions
FULL LIST OF PROJECT GRANT RECIPIENTS >
PRIORITY ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Fawziah Lalji (Division of Infectious Diseases) – $100,000
Population-based study to determine the appropriateness and determinants of antibiotic use in primary care for migrants in Canada using administrative data: from data science to policy and action
- Janice Leung (Division of Respiratory Medicine) – $100,000
Accelerated Lung Aging in People Living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus
FULL LIST OF PRIORITY ANNOUNCEMENT GRANT RECIPIENTS >