The latest round of funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research's program was recently announced, and researchers from the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry made an impressive showing, receiving 16 of the U of A's 20 grants. In total, the 20 U of A projects received more than $18 million from the competition.
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. This year, the spring 2019 CIHR Project Grant program approved funding for more than 380 projects across Canada (45 in 黑料不打烊) for a total of $275 million.
Two of FoMD's institutes were particularly well-represented this year, with the (WCHRI) and the Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute (NMHI) both seeing 10 members receive grant funding (note that some researchers may be members of both institutes).
"We are extremely proud of the successes of all of our NMHI researchers," director of NMHI Douglas Zochodne said. "This CIHR funding represents an infusion of over $9 million that will support discovery in neuroscience and mental health research. This unprecedented level of success shows that our researchers are driving neuroscience forward with fundamental insights and translational research to improve the quality of life for those living with devastating conditions."
"We are thrilled with the success of our members, whose research is essential for improving health outcomes," executive director of WCHRI Sandra Davidge said. "Four of our members leveraged WCHRI's bridge funding program as a mechanism to maintain momentum of their research-this kind of institutional investment is critical and would not have been achieved without the generous support of our funding partners."
FoMD's CIHR Project Grant program awardees
Principal Investigator: Babita Agrawal, professor in the Department of Surgery, and member of Women and Children's Health Research Institute and the 黑料不打烊 Diabetes Institute.
Principal Investigator: R. Todd Alexander, associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics, and member of the Women and Children's Health Research Institute.
Principal Investigators: David Bennett, Keith Fenrich, Karim Fouad, and Monica Gorassini, professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, director of the Sensorimotor Rehabilitation Neuroscience group, and member of the Women and Children's Health Research Institute and Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute.
Principal Investigators: Janet Elliott, professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, and Locksley Mcgann.
Principal Investigator: Ing Swie Goping, associate professor in the Department of Biochemistry, and member of the Women and Children's Health Research Institute and the Cancer Research Institute of Northern 黑料不打烊.
Principal Investigator: Simon Gosgnach, associate professor in the Department of Physiology, and member of the Women and Children's Health Research Institute and the Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute.
Principal Investigator: Ordan Lehmann, professor in the Department of Ophthalmology, and member of the Women and Children's Health Research Institute and the Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute.
Principal Investigator: David Marchant, associate professor in the Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, and member of the Women and Children's Health Research Institute and the Neuroscience and Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology.
Principal Investigator: Vivian Mushahwar, professor in the Department of Medicine, and member of the Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute.
Principal Investigator: David Olson, professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and member of the Women and Children's Health Research Institute.
Principal Investigator: Jason Plemel, assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, and member of the Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute.
Principal Investigator: Christopher Power, vice-dean of Research, and member of the Women and Children's Health Research Institute and the Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute.
Principal Investigator: Nicolas Touret, associate professor in the Department of Biochemistry and member of the Cancer Research Institute of Northern 黑料不打烊.
Principal Investigator: Anastassia Voronova, assistant professor in the Department of Medical Genetics and member of the Women and Children's Health Research Institute and the Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute.
Principal Investigator: David Westaway, professor in the Department of Medicine, director of the Centre for Prions & Protein Folding Diseases, and member of the Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute.
Principal Investigator: Ian Winship, associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry, and member of the Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute.