The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has announced the results of its Spring 2024 project grant competition. Congratulations to all the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health members who were awarded grants, with 10 projects receiving over $7 million in funding.
Overall, the CIHR Spring 2024 competition approved 373 research grants for a total investment of over $325 million. In addition, 68 priority announcement grants were funded for a total of over $7 million. UBC researchers are leading 52 projects that have been awarded $34.2 million in funding. Read the full UBC announcement.
Learn more about the projects that are being led by DMCBH researchers below.
PROJECT GRANTS:
- The contribution of metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 to cerebral blood flow homeostasis in Alzheimer’s disease
Principal Investigator: Khaled Abdelrahman - Visual control of complex locomotion by the cerebellum
Principal Investigator: Douglas Altshuler - Implementation research to improve scale-up of the delivery of evidence-based community exercise programs for stroke
Principal Investigator: Janice Eng - Network-Brain Age: Enhancing spatial precision of accelerated aging
Principal Investigator: Sophia Frangou - Evaluating the efficacy of the PolarUs app on quality of life outcomes in people with bipolar disorder
Principal Investigator: Erin Michalak and Steven Barnes - Genetic and environmental modulators of disease mechanisms in retinitis pigmentosa
Principal Investigator: Orson Moritz - Probing the Role of Claudin-11 Mutations in Hypomyelinating Leukodystrophy
Principal Investigator: Mahmoud Pouladi - In vivo functional characterization of Parkinson’s disease linked genes and identification of the best candidate genes of Parkinson’s Disease GWAS loci using Caenorhabditis elegans
Principal Investigator: Catharine Rankin - REhabilitation of MEMory symptoms after BRain concussion (REMEMBR trial)
Principal Investigator: Noah Silverberg
PRIORITY ANNOUNCEMENTS:
- Sex differences in inflammatory, neuroendocrine and behavioural responses: Impact of corticosteroid-binding globulin deficiency
Principal Investigator: Victor Viau
