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 2022 competition has approved 382 research grants, plus an additional 93 bridge grants, for a total investment of approximately $325M.
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 2022 Competition from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR).
For a full listing of all the CIHR Fall 2022 Project Grant recipients, please visit the CIHR website
FULL PROJECT GRANTS
- Re-imagining Recovery with Young People Who Use(d) Drugs and Their Caregivers in Metro Vancouver: A Longitudinal Qualitative and Community-Based Participatory Study – $378,675
Principal Investigator: Danya Fast (Social Medicine)
Co-Investigators: Cheyenne Johnson, Rod Knight, Seonaid Nolan (Social Medicine) - Trajectories of STBBIs, access to health services and psychosocial determinants among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in three Canadian cities – $1,449,674
Principal Investigator: David Moore (Social Medicine)
Co-Ivestigators: Troy Grennan (Infectious Diseases), Mark Hull (Social Medicine), Viviane D Lima (Infectious Diseases) - The PELvUS Study – Pelvic floor Exercise to Lessen Urinary incontinence and Sexual dysfunction in people with spinal cord injury – $569,924
Principal Investigator: Tania Lam (Department of Kinesiology)
Co-Ivestigators: Andrei Krassioukov, Matthias Walter (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) - ACTIVE: Adding Life to Years in Cognitive Frailty by Preventing Falls – $818,550
Principal Investigator: Teresa Liu-Ambrose, Linda Li (Department of Physical Therapy), Ken Madden (Geriatric Medicine)
Co-Investigators: Naaz Parmar (Geriatric Medicine)
FULL LIST OF PROJECT GRANT RECIPIENTS >
PRIORITY ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Exploring the potential of type-1 regulatory T cells in treatment and recovery from intestinal inflammation in inflammatory bowel disease
Principal Investigator: Theodore Steiner (Infectious Diseases)
Project Grant – Priority Announcement: Infection and Immunity