Congratulations to all of our members on their recent success!
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Congratulations to all of our members on their recent success with their CIHR Project Grant funding. Overall, the Faculty of Medicine and its affiliated research institutes had a 13.7% success rate.
CIHR funds innovative health research for the benefit of all Canadians, and the Faculty of Medicine continues to shine in its enviable position as a leading research-intensive institution.
Congratulations to the 18 research groups on behalf of the entire Faculty!
- Lise Dubois (PI); Richard E Tremblay, Michel Boivin, Denis Prud'Homme. Determinants of dietary habits in young adults: the influence of the first five years of life
- Stephen S Ferguson. Investigation of sex differences in preclinical models of Alzheimer's disease treatment
- Manisha A Kulkarni (PI); Nicholas H Ogden, Anders J Knudby, Michael C Sawada. Public Health Risk Assessment Tools for Emerging Vector-borne Diseases 2.0
- Subash Sad (PI); Alain Stintzi, Alexandre Blais. FoxO3a acts as a key checkpoint that regulates inflammation in the gut
- Alice A Zwerling and Gonzalo G Alvarez (PIs); Michael Patterson, Sandy Finn, Jean M Allen, Shylah Elliott, Patricia A DeMaio, Christopher Pease. Modelling the impact and cost-effectiveness of novel approaches for TB control in Nunavut
- Rebecca Ann C Auer. Perioperative Targeting of Myeloid Derived Suppressor Cells to Alleviate Postoperative Immunosuppression and Metastases
- Angela M Crawley. Liver fibrosis and CD8 T cell dysfunction in hepatitis C virus infection
- Aurelien Delluc and Marc Carrier (PIs); Jean-Philippe Galanaud, Alejandro Lazo-Langner, Grégoire Le Gal, Timothy O Ramsay, Philippe Robin, Pierre-Yves Salaun, Sudeep P Shivakumar, Susan Solymoss, Vicky Tagalakis, Ryan Zarychanski, Lionel S Zuckier. Screening for Occult Malignancy in Patients with Unprovoked Venous Thromboembolism: a Randomized Controlled Trial using 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Computed Tomography. SOME-2 Trial
- Aurelien Delluc and Marc A Rodger (PIs); Dean A Fergusson, Sudeep P Shivakumar, Leslie Skeith, Jean-Philippe Galanaud, James D Douketis, Michael J Kovacs, Susan R Kahn, Clive Kearon, Sam Schulman, Ranjeeta Mallick, Deborah M Siegal, Jameel Abdulrehman, Walter Ageno, Jamie C Brehaut, Tony Wan, Cynthia M Wu, Kednapa Thavorn. StAtins for Venous Event Reduction in patients with venous thromboembolism (The SAVER Trial)
- Dean A Fergusson and Manoj M Lalu (PIs); Jonathan Kimmelman, Alvin Tieu, Lindsey Sikora, David Moher, Brian E Hutton, Tania M Bubela. Translation of Highly Promising Basic Science Research into Clinical Applications: A Systematic Review
- Brian E Hutton, Rachel L Rodin and Brett D Thombs (PIs); Chantelle M Garritty, Adrienne L Stevens, Kednapa Thavorn, Danielle B Rice, George A Wells, Shannon Kelly, David Moher, Laura C Weeks. Artificial Intelligence in Systematic Reviews: Evaluation of Emerging Electronic Tools for Researchers in Knowledge Synthesis
- Grégoire Le Gal (PI); Brian E Hutton, Alfonso Iorio, Beverley J Shea, Lisa Duffett, Tobias Tritschler, Peter S Tugwell, Leslie Skeith. Establishing an International Core Outcome Set for Clinical Trials of Interventions for Venous Thromboembolism in Adults (VTE-COS)
- Pierre Adel Mattar. Molecular dissection of temporal competence in neural progenitors
- Pierre Adel Mattar. Molecular mechanisms controlling photoreceptor genome organization and neurodegeneration
- Daniel I McIsaac, Carl Van Walraven and Alan J Forster (PIs); Reva Ramlogan, Brad Meulenkamp, Peter Tanuseputro, Faraj W Abdallah, Paul E Beaule, Allen R Huang, Sylvain Boet, Colin J McCartney, Duminda N Wijeysundera, Barbara E Power, Monica Taljaard, Shannon M Fernando, Jeffrey J Perry. SAFE PNB -Safe Analgesia For Elders receiving Peripheral Nerve Blocks for hip fracture
- David J Picketts. Determining the mechanisms underlying disease pathology and the genetic reversibility of the ATR-X syndrome.
- Alan T Tinmouth, Dawn Maze and Jason Tay (PIs); Dean A Fergusson, Ranjeeta Mallick, Anca Prica, Christine I Chen, Sara M Beattie, Irwin R Walker, Mohamed Elemary, Matthew D Seftel, Kednapa Thavorn, David S Allan, Johnathan Mack, Christopher Bredeson. Platelet Transfusions in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation - The PATH Phase III Trial
- Jing Wang and Marjorie C Brand. Optimizing cell-based therapies to promote neurovascular regeneration and behavioural recovery after ischemic stroke
