Congratulations to the investigators and their teams who were awarded funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Fall 2024 Project Grant competition. BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR) community members received $11,571,083 in new research grants.
For fully funded project grants, BCCHR investigators had a funding success rate of 23.5 per cent, compared to the national average of 17.2 per cent. BCCHR’s overall funding success rate was 33.3 per cent, including priority announcements.
View the CIHR summary of Fall 2024 Project Grant results.
Project grants
Dr. Molly Cairncross — Brain, Behaviour & Development
BCCHR co-investigators: Dr. Shelina Babul, Dr. Quynh Doan, Dr. Jacqueline Purtzki
Project: “Mindfulness app for concussion recovery (MACRO) feasibility trial: A digital mindfulness-based intervention for adolescents with persisting symptoms after concussion”
Funding amount: $447,525 over two years, six months
Dr. Angela Devlin — Healthy Starts
BCCHR co-investigators: Dr. Crystal Karakochuk, Dr. Francis Lynn, Dr. Alejandra Wiedeman
Project: “Understanding the impact of maternal folic acid intake on gestational diabetes and offspring pancreatic islet cell development”
Funding amount: $918,000 over five years
Dr. Quynh Doan — Evidence to Innovation
Project: “Cultural adaptation and validation of MyHEARTSMAP, a digital psychosocial instrument, for Chinese youth and families in Canada”
Funding amount: $202,726 over three years
Dr. Calvin Kuo
BCCHR co-PIs: Dr. Tim Bhatnagar, Dr. Lise A. Leveille — Evidence to Innovation
Project: “Assessing remote technologies for return to sport after anterior cruciate ligament injury in children”
Funding amount: $623,475 over five years
Dr. Francis Lynn, Dr. Megan Levings, Dr. Bruce Verchere — Childhood Diseases
Project: “Building better beta cells in order to improve stem cell-derived islet transplantation outcomes”
Funding amount: $1,120,725 over five years
Dr. Louise Mâsse — Evidence to Innovation
BCCHR co-investigators: Dr. Mariana Brussoni, Dr. Tamara Cohen, Dr. Hasina Samji
Project: “Bridging the gap: Evaluating the real-world impact of comprehensive school health initiatives on physical activity, nutrition, and mental health/well-being of elementary school children”
Funding amount: $1,650,105 over five years
Dr. Christopher Maxwell — Childhood Diseases
Project: “Elucidate the targetable mechanisms underpinning the development of a pregnancy-associated breast cancer in BRCA1 mutation carriers”
Funding amount: $1,074,825 over five years
Dr. Manon Ranger — Healthy Starts
Project: “Determining the neuroprotective effects of insulin-like growth factor-1 on neurodevelopmental impairments related to neonatal pain and sucrose-induced inflammatory stress”
Funding amount: $734,400 over five years
Dr. Laura Schummers — Healthy Starts
BCCHR co-investigator: Dr. Wendy V. Norman
Project: “Effect of Canada’s first universal contraception subsidy on access, pregnancy outcomes, and costs: A population-based controlled interrupted time series study”
Funding amount: $929,476 over four years
Dr. Thiviya Selvanathan — Brain, Behaviour & Development
BCCHR co-investigators: Dr. Julia Charlton, Dr. Mor Cohen-Eilig, Dr. Ram Mishaal, Dr. Alexander Rauscher, Dr. Alexander Weber
Project: “Brain connectome and neurodevelopment in neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy”
Funding amount: $615,825 over five years
Dr. Stefan Taubert, Dr. Francis Lynn — Childhood Diseases
Project: “Role of mediator subunit Med15 in maturation and resilience of endocrine cells in the pancreas”
Funding amount: $1,063,350 over five years
Dr. Matthew Wiens — Healthy Starts
BCCHR co-investigators: Dr. Liisa Holsti, Dr. Niranjan Kissoon, Dr. Pascal Lavoie
Project: “Smart Discharges for newborns with sepsis: A personalized public health approach for improving discharge and post-discharge care in low-resource settings”
Funding amount: $1,690,651 over four years, six months
Project Grant — Priority Announcements
Dr. Devon Greyson — Healthy Starts
Project: “When clinicians misinform: Assessing and understanding the impact of expert-provided misinformation on trans and gender diverse populations”
Funding amount: $100,000 over one year
Dr. Sunil Kalia — Evidence to Innovation, Dr. Jan Peter Dutz — Childhood Diseases
BCCHR co-investigator: Dr. Wingfield Rehmus
Project: “Mapping the current landscape, treatment patterns, and access to health services for eczema patients in British Columbia”
Funding amount: $100,000 over one year
Dr. Stuart Turvey — Healthy Starts
Project: “Harnessing early life developmental trajectories and the gut microbiota to identify new ways to predict and prevent asthma”
Funding amount: $100,000 over one year
Dr. Bruce Verchere — Childhood Diseases
Project: “Islet macrophages: Regulators of beta cell function in health and diabetes”
Funding amount: $100,000 over one year
Dr. David Wilson — Evidence to Innovation
BCCHR co-investigator: Dr. Alexander Rauscher
Project: “Biomechanical and imaging assessments of hip microinstability”
Funding amount: $100,000 over one year
