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 2022 competition has approved 405 research grants, plus an additional 2 bridge grants, for a total investment of approximately $325M.
UBC Department of Medicine researchers have been awarded $5.1M for 7 projects at the university and its affiliated health authority research centres through the Project Grant: Spring 2021 Competition from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR).
For a full listing of all the CIHR Spring 2022 Project Grant recipients, please visit the CIHR website
FULL PROJECT GRANTS
- Teresa Tsang (Division of Cardiology); Michael Tsang (Division of Cardiology) – $1,005,976
Automatic Assessment of Aortic Stenosis with Point of Care Ultrasound
- Jade Boyd ; Danya Fast; Thomas Kerr; Rod Knight; Andrea Krüsi; Ryan McNeil (Division of Social Medicine) – $497,251
An intersectional investigation of women’s experiences of overlapping overdose and COVID-19 public health crises
- Christopher Carlsten (Division of Respiratory Medicine) – $896,580
Traffic-Related Air Pollution, Inhaled Corticosteroids and Host Defence Response in COPD
- Thalia Field (Division of Neurology) – $1,434,376
Traumatic brain injury and cerebral small vessel disease in a vulnerably housed cohort, a prelude to early neurodegeneration and dementia
- John Staples (Division of General Internal Medicine) – $336,600
Drug overdose after departure from hospital against medical advice
- Anna Tinker (Division of Medical Oncology) – $879,750
Digital self-tracking and self-testing for early detection of endometrial cancer
FULL LIST OF PROJECT GRANT RECIPIENTS >
PRIORITY ANNOUNCEMENT GRANTS
- Donald Sin (Division of Respiratory Medicine); Janice Leung (Division of Respiratory Medicine) – $100,000
Blood Epigenetic Age Biomarkers and Health Outcomes in COPD
FULL LIST OF PRIORITY ANNOUNCEMENT GRANT RECIPIENTS >