The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) recently announced the results of its Spring 2023 project grant competition. Congratulations to all the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health members who were awarded grants, with 12 projects receiving over $9 million in funding.
Overall, UBC researchers are leading 50 projects that have been awarded $37 million in funding. Read the full UBC announcement.
Learn more about the projects that are being led by DMCBH researchers below.
PROJECT GRANTS:
- The role of Dystrogylcan and conservation of function in development and maintenance of the peripheral glial sheath
Principal Investigator: Vanessa Auld - Metabolite Control of Microbiome-Microglia Communication in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Principal Investigator: Annie Ciernia
- Histone Acetylation Regulates Microglial Innate Immune Memory
Principal Investigator: Annie Ciernia - Restoring gut symbiosis caused by a Western diet through a Mediterranean-like diet combined with novel probiotics that target the gut-brain metabolic interactome
Principal Investigator: Deanna Gibson - Astrocyte Piezo1 channels in neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration
Principal Investigator: Brian MacVicar - The role of microglia in mediating sex-specific neurodevelopmental responses to maternal stress
Principal Investigator: Jessica Rosin - Multi-modal, multi-parametric liver imaging for ultrasound-based stratification of patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Principal Investigator: Piotr Kozlowski - Targeting pannexin 1 to tune dendritic spine stability
Principal Investigator: Leigh Anne Swayne - Physiological and pathological regulation of GABAA receptor functions
Principal Investigator: Yu Tian Wang - Acute intermittent hypoxia as a novel cardio-therapeutic for spinal cord injury
Principal Investigator: Christopher West
