Congratulations to the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR), Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI), and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) investigators and their teams who were awarded funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Spring 2024 Project Grant competition. Several of our research community members received around $5 million in new research grants as principal investigators or co-investigators
BCCHR investigators had a funding success rate of 23.8 per cent, compared to the national average of 15.3 per cent.
View the CIHR summary of Spring 2024 Project Grant result.
Project Grant
Dr. Tonia Nicholls – Brain, Behaviour & Development
Project: “Improving health and criminal justice outcomes through community, hope and healing: An evaluation of BC’s prison-based therapeutic community using a mixed methods research design”
Funding amount: $1,266,076/5 years
Dr. Gillian Hanley (WHRI/VCHRI) – Brain, Behaviour & Development
Project: “Long-term development in children exposed in utero to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and stimulant medication”
Funding amount: $244,800/3 years
Dr. Pablo Nepomnaschy (SFU) – Healthy Starts
Project: “Influence of socioecological factors on the pace of reproductive aging and the risk of cardiometabolic diseases in peri- and post-menopause — A reproductive life course study”
Funding amount: $906,526/5 years
Dr. Mahmoud Pouladi – Childhood Diseases
Project: “Probing the role of claudin-11 mutations in hypomyelinating leukodystrophy”
Funding amount: $898,876/5 years
Co-Investigator: Dr. Sylvia Stockler
Dr. Gregor Reid – Childhood Diseases
Project: “Harnessing infection-associated modifiers of paediatric acute lymphoblastic leukaemia progression for therapeutic benefit”
Funding amount: $918,000/5 years
Dr. Laura Sly – Childhood Diseases
Project: “Bespoke plant glycoconjugates to improve inflammatory bowel disease treatment through gut-microbiota-mediated drug targeting”
Funding amount: $879,750/5 years
CIHR Project Grants – Priority Announcement Bridge Grants
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: $100,000/1 year
Dr. Laura Schummers – Healthy Starts
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: $100,000/1 year
Dr. Francis Lynn, Dr. Megan Levings, and Dr. Bruce Verchere – Childhood Diseases
Project: “Building better beta cells in order to improve stem cell-derived islet transplantation outcomes”
Funding amount: $100,000/1 year
We would also like to congratulate all other BCCHR researchers who collaborated or were co-investigators on projects awarded funding.
View the full list of CIHR Institute Priority Announcement grant recipients.
