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 2021 competition has approved 442 research grants, plus an additional 4 bridge grants, for a total investment of approximately $325M.
UBC Department of Medicine researchers have been awarded $7.39M for 10 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 2021 Project Grant recipients, please visit the CIHR website
FULL PROJECT GRANTS
- Najib Ayas (Division of Critical Care Medicine) – $1,445,850
Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Long-term Health Consequences
- Edward Conway (Division of Hematology) – $765,000
A new potential therapeutic target for type 2 diabetes: Delineating the mechanisms of its actions
- Rodney Knight (Division of Social Medicine) and Danya Fast (Division of Social Medicine) – $512,550
Side by Side: Identifying strategies to address the health and social needs of youth who use stimulants
- Shannon Kolind (Division of Neurology) and Anthony Traboulsee (Division of Neurology) – $504,900
Prediction of Cognitive and Motor Symptom Progression in Multiple Sclerosis Using Myelin Imaging
- Jonathan Loree (Division of Medical Oncology) – $1,426,724
Circulating Tumour DNA Analysis Informing Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Stage III Colorectal Cancer: A Multicentre Phase II/III Randomised Controlled Trial (DYNAMIC-III)
- David Moore (Division of Infectious Diseases) – $180,000
Uptake and gaps in HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) use among HIV-negative gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (gbMSM) in Metro Vancouver, Canada before, during and following COVID-19
- Noah Silverberg (Division of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) – $761,176
Graded exposure therapy for fear avoidance behaviour (GET FAB) after concussion
- Don Sin (Division of Respiratory Medicine) – $952,426
A Novel Approach to Discover Therapeutic and Biomarker Targets and Enable Precision Health in COPD: TORCH (Towards Omics and imaging to Revolutionize COPD Health)
PRIORITY ANNOUNCEMENT GRANTS
- Mark FitzGerald (Division of Respiratory Medicine) – $100,000
A pragmatic randomized controlled trial evaluating the impact of a tele-asthma self-management intervention (Canadian Asthma Text Messaging Study – CANATEXTS) on reducing asthma exacerbations
- Yossef Av-Gay (Division of Infectious Diseases) – $750,000
Host Directed Therapies in Tuberculosis