Dr. Seint Kokokyi, principal investigator and assistant professor of clinical health psychology, and co-applicants Drs. Mandy Buss, Maxine Holmqvist, Alexander Singer and Opeyemi Sobowale received a Clinical Health Psychology Early Career Research Grant. The $7,500 grant was given by the department of clinical health psychology and the Max Rady College of Medicine in May for their project entitled Trauma-informed care education for Family Medicine. The research team also received the Preparing for Research by Engaging Public and Patient Partners Award for that project. The $4,000 award was handed out in April by the George & Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation and the Manitoba Primary and Integrated Healthcare Innovation Network.
Dr. Lily Lim, associate professor of pediatrics and child health, has been awarded an Innovation Grant worth over $100,000 from the Arthritis Society as principal investigator of Machine Learning to Identify Lupus Patients and Define Lifetime Disease Association Trajectories: Preventing Future Morbidities & Improving Health. Read more.
The Canadian Institutes of Heath Research awarded $2.4 million for the six-year Health Research Training Program called Artificial Intelligence for Public Health (AI4PH) National Training Platform. This training program will deliver a certificate program, trainee scholarships, training workshops and placements with government and other public health partners at the intersection of artificial intelligence, public health and health equity. Dr. Lisa Lix, professor of community health sciences, co-leads the program with Drs. Laura Rosella (University of Toronto; nominated lead) David Buckeridge (McGill University), Joon Lee (University of Calgary), Nathaniel Osgood (University of Saskatchewan), Maureen Anderson (University of Saskatchewan) and Lisa Fan (University of Regina).
Dr. Yvonne Myal, professor of pathology, and physiology and pathophysiology, received a breast cancer joint operating grant from the Cancer Research Society (CRS)/CIHR to study the role of the prolactin inducible protein in triple negative breast cancer. She also received a five-year NSERC discovery grant.
Sanguins, J., Turner, D., Riddell, A., Chartrand, A.F., Combot, M., & King, B. REACH: Radon education and assessment for community health. Canadian Cancer Society and Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Initiative in Primary Cancer Prevention. Proof-of-Concept Interventions in Primary Cancer Prevention. ($200,000)
Dr. George Zhanel, professor of medical microbiology and infectious diseases, and research director of the Canadian Antimicrobial Resistance Alliance-CARA, announced that the group has now received four research grants for their new CLEAR study assessing the usage of new antimicrobials (ceftolozane/tazobactam, ceftobiprole, IV fosfomycin and dalbavancin) in Canada.