The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has announced the results of its Fall 2024 project grant competition. Congratulations to all the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health members who were awarded project grants, with 13 projects receiving more than $8 million in funding.
Overall, the CIHR Fall 2024 competition approved 453 research grants and 105 priority grants, for a total investment of approximately $411 million. A total of 55 projects are led by UBC researchers, which were awarded $38.1 million in combined funding.
Learn more about the projects that are being led by DMCBH researchers.
Project Grants:
- Shernaz Bamji: ZDHHC9 enzyme function in the formation and function of oligodendrocytes and neuronal connections (*Conditional award at time of posting)
- Mark Cembrowski: A detonator neuron driving the cellular and behavioural expression of seizures
- Carol Chen: Epigenetic mechanisms of SETD2 neurodevelopmental disorders (*Conditional award at time of posting)
- Brett Hilton: The role of calcium-dependent vesicle release in corticospinal axon regeneration
- Brian MacVicar: Lipid Nanoparticle-messenger RNA (LNP-mRNA) as a versatile therapeutic platform for brain diseases
- Joanne Matsubara: Extracellular Granzyme B Accumulates with Aging and Promotes Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD)
- Orson Moritz: New animal models of retinal disease with retinal deposits
- Manon Ranger: Determining the neuroprotective effects of Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 on neurodevelopmental impairments related to neonatal pain and sucrose-induced inflammatory stress
- Thiviya Selvanathan: Brain Connectome and Neurodevelopment in Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy
- Noah Silverberg: Personalized symptom mapping to understand and treat persistent post-concussion symptoms
- Jason Snyder: Understanding the amnestic side effects of electroconvulsive shock
- Victor Viau: Sex differences in inflammatory, neuroendocrine and behavioural responses: Impact of corticosteroid-binding globulin deficiency.
Priority Announcement Grants:
