Awards Stars
The Faculty of Medicine is excited to announce the latest funding allocations from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), receiving a total of 24 grants between the faculty and its affiliated institutes for a total of $14.1M.

Congratulations to all research teams on behalf of the entire Faculty of Medicine!

 

  • Amy Teh-Mei Hsu (BHRI/Family Medicine): “Putting RESPECT at the centre of person-centred care: Evaluation of a risk communication tool supporting earlier conversations about decline and palliative care needs in long-term care.”

  • Andrée-Anne Ledoux (CHEO RI/CMM): “Multisite Randomized Clinical Trial: Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (MBI-4-mTBI)”

  • Balwant S Tuana (CMM): “SLMAPs novel group of proteins in developing myocardium and guiding function”

  • Baptiste Lacoste (OHRI/CMM): “Astrocyte-derived HMGB1: a developmental switch for functional stroke recovery.”

  • Carl Van Walraven (OHRI/Medicine): “Virtual care utilization and impact among individuals with breast cancer on systemic therapy: a population-based retrospective cohort study”

  • Carolina Solange Ilkow (OHRI/BMI): “Engineered Extracellular Vesicles to Enhance Immunotherapy in Immunosuppressive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancers”

  • Christopher Kennedy (OHRI/Medicine): “The role of G protein receptor 84 in inflammatory kidney injury” 

  • Daniel McIsaac (OHRI/ Anesthesiology): “STRIVE before surgery trial: a pragmatic multicenter randomized trial of Structured TRaining to Improve fitness in a Virtual Environment before surgery”

  • Giorgia Sulis (SEPH/OHRI): “Standardizing and optimizing the assessment of risk of bias in vaccine effectiveness studies to improve evidence synthesis and guideline development”

  • Gregory Hundemer (OHRI/Medicine): “Subclinical Primary Aldosteronism: An Unrecognized, Modifiable Driver of Diastolic Heart Failure”

  • Joseph Shaw (OHRI/Medicine): “Active Cancer Patients Having Cancer-Related Invasive Procedures or Surgery and Needing Perioperative Management of Anticoagulation Therapy (ACE-HIGH) - A Prospective Management Cohort Study”

  • Kednapa Thavorn (OHRI/SEPH): “Developing evidence-informed patient engagement guidance for economic evaluations (DEEP-ENGAGE)”

  • Manish M Sood (OHRI/Medicine): “Re(de)fining CKD to reduce cardiovascular disease in young adults”

  • Marc Carrier (OHRI/Medicine): “Development of a risk stratification score for recurrent venous thromboembolism and clinically-relevant bleeding in patients with cancer-associated venous thromboembolism. CAN-CATCH Study”

  • Marco Solmi (OHRI/Psychiatry): “Describing care and improving outcomes of inpatient psychiatric hospitalizations for individuals with schizophrenia”

  • Michael S Downey (CMM): “Metabolism and function of polyphosphate chains in S. cerevisiae.”

  • Michele Ardolino (OHRI/BMI): “Harnessing ILC2 for immunotherapy of ovarian cancer.”

  • Michele Ardolino (OHRI/BMI): “A mechanistic investigation of NK cell disarming.”

  • Monique Chantal Potvin Kent (SEPH): “#Harmfulproductmarketing: The Digital Marketing of Unhealthy Food, Alcohol, Gambling, Vape and Cannabis Products to Youth, the Impact of Policy Environment and Key Policy Solutions”

  • Pierre Adel Mattar (OHRI/CMM): “Dissecting the role of chromatin remodelling in neocortical neurogenesis and neurodevelopmental disorders”

  • Ryan Russell (CMM): “Uncovering the mechanisms of ATG16L1 regulation in autophagy control”

  • Smita Pakhale (OHRI/Medicine): “The impact of tobacco smoking during pregnancy on the long-term risk of cardiovascular disease in women.” 

  • Sukhbir Sony Singh (OHRI/CMM/ Obstetrics and Gynecology): “Ethnic and racial disparity in endometriosis pathobiology, diagnosis, and treatment”

  • Tommy Alain (CHEO RI/BMI): “Development of Reovirus-based, orally administered, colon cancer vaccines.”