Dr. Denice Bay, associate professor of medical microbiology and infectious diseases, received a grant (URGP – $10,000 over one year) for a project titled “Developing a Veterinary Periodontal Disease Detecting Point-of-Care Device.” Bay also received a grant (NSERC RTI – $148,000 over two years) for a project titled “A Zetaview Multiple Parameter Particle Tracking System for Bioparticle and Nanobubble Research.”
Dr. Michael Czubryt, professor of physiology and pathophysiology, received a CIHR grant ($1,149,414 over five years) to investigate how a protein, scleraxis, controls the conversion of heart cells called fibroblasts into myofibroblasts – a process that drives cardiac fibrosis, or stiffening of the heart, in cardiac disease. Read more
Dr. Corby Fink, assistant professor of medical microbiology and infectious diseases, received a grant (UM Start-Up Grant – $325,000 over five years) for a project titled “Non-Invasive Therapeutic Cell Tracking to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Vaccine Strategies for Emerging Viruses.”
Dr. Julie Ho, professor of internal medicine, received a CIHR grant ($2,757,826 over five years) for her team to lead an international, multi-centre, randomized controlled trial to define the optimal steroid therapy for T-cell mediated rejection (TCMR) of kidneys after transplant. Read more
Dr. Yoav Keynan, professor of internal medicine, received a CIHR Team Grant for a project titled “Strengthened Prairies Integrated Knowledge Exchange (SPIKE) Hub: Enhancing Community Responsive and Peer Integrated Clinical Trials” ($800,000 over four years). Keynan received a grant (University Of Saskatchewan – $577,775 over five years) for a project titled “CIHR Pan Canadian Network for HIV and STBBI for Clinical Trials Research.” He also received a grant (HSC RF – $17,000 over two years) for a project titled “Towards precision management of pneumonia: Etiology and lung microbiome in adults diagnosed with community-acquired pneumonia that required hospitalization – A pilot project within the ATTACC- CAP trial.”
Dr. Jason Kindrachuk, associate professor of medical microbiology and infectious diseases and UM Canada Research Chair in the molecular pathogenesis of emerging viruses, received a grant (ELRHA – $285,185 over one year) for a project titled “Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo mPox (ECOPOX) Vaccine Acceptance Initiative.”
Dr. Jennifer Kornelsen, associate professor of radiology, received a CIHR grant ($623,476 over five years). Seeking to understand depression and anxiety in people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), Kornelsen will use magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the brain and spinal cord activity of patients who have IBD with depression/anxiety; those who have IBD without those conditions; and healthy people. Read more
Dr. Sylvain Lother, assistant professor of internal medicine, received a CIHR grant ($180,000 over three years) for a pilot randomized controlled trial of 120 patients across Canada in preparation for a much larger trial involving thousands of patients with community-acquired pneumonia. Read more
Dr. Jonathan McGavock, professor of pediatrics and child health, received a CIHR grant ($100,000 over one year) for a project that continues his research on how urban trails in Canadian cities rarely reach or serve the needs of urban-dwelling Indigenous people. Read more
Dr. Kirk McManus, professor of biochemistry and medical genetics, received a CIHR grant ($1,208,700 over five years) for a project that will use cutting-edge techniques to study the expression of a gene, SKP2, that appears to play a role in the development of tubo-ovarian high-grade serous carcinoma, the most common and lethal form of ovarian cancer. Read more
Dr. Bárbara Porto, assistant professor of medical microbiology and infectious diseases, received a grant (ResMB & CFI – $155,600 over three years) for a project titled “The Respiratory Infections Modelling Lab: Enhancing Capacity for Aerosol Exposure and Lung Mechanics Studies”
Dr. Md Niaz Rahim, adjunct professor of medical microbiology and infectious diseases, received a grant (MB Agriculture – $139,000 over two years) for a project titled “Animal Disease Diagnostic Project.”
Dr. Claudio Rigatto, professor of internal medicine, received a CIHR grant ($765,000 over three years) to develop a small, easy-to-use, low-cost test for rapid, accurate assessment of kidney function in settings such as clinics, pharmacies, schools, and potentially homes. Read more
Dr. Zulma Rueda, associate professor of medical microbiology and infectious diseases and UM Canada Research Chair in Sexually Transmitted Infection – Resistance and Control, received two CIHR Team Grants. The first one is titled “Inclusivity, Diversity, Equity to Address Syndemics in HIV and STBBI” ($2,000,000 over five years). And the second is titled “Knowledge Mobilization Hub Grant: All Together 4 IDEAS” ($748,493 over five years).
Dr. Kelly Russell, associate professor of pediatrics and child health, received a CIHR grant ($1,500,000 over five years) for a project titled “You-CAN (Youth Concussion Awareness Network) SHRed Concussions (Surveillance in High School and Community Sport to Reduce Concussions and their Consequences): Canadian Youth Informing Best Practice and Policy in the Prevention of Sport-related Concussions.” Read more
Dr. Nishita Singh, assistant professor of internal medicine and the Heart & Stroke & Research Manitoba Chair in Clinical Stroke Research, received a CIHR grant ($768,826 over three years) to determine whether it’s safe for patients who take blood thinners called direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) to receive a clot-busting medication (tenecteplase) when they are having an ischemic stroke. Read more
Dr. George Zhanel, professor of medical microbiology and infectious diseases, received a grant (Avir Pharma Inc. – $41,600 over two years) for a project titled “Management and Analysis of the CLEAR Registry: Ceftobiprole Endocarditis 2025–2026.”