Dr. Robert Beattie, assistant professor of biochemistry and medical genetics, received more than $1 million (five years) from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) for a project that investigates why some brain cells are more vulnerable than others during development. Read more
Dr. Shyamala Dakshinamurti, professor of pediatrics and child health, received $994,500 (five years) from CIHR for a project studying pulmonary hypertension of the newborn. Read more
Dr. Keith Fowke, professor and department head of medical microbiology and infectious diseases, received $31,250 (three years) from the Centre Hospitalier del’Université de Montréal for his project “Canadian HIV Cure Enterprise 3.0: Targeting tissue HIV reservoirs.” He and Dr. Titus Olukitibi received a $50,000 (two years) training grant from CIHR for their project “Increasing Capacity for Maternal and PAediatric Clinical Trials (IMPACT) in Canada.”
Dr. Mariana Herrera, postdoctoral fellow in medical microbiology and infectious diseases, received a $50,000 (one year) CIHR Planning and Dissemination Grant for the project “From Local to Global: Expanding Canadian One Health Leadership Through International Partnerships to Fight AMR.”
Dr. Yoav Keynan, professor of internal medicine and medical microbiology and infectious diseases, received $577,775 (four years) from CIHR, for his project “CIHR Pan‑Canadian Network for HIV and STBBI for Clinical Trials Research.” He also received $17,000 (two years) from HSCRF for his project “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. Julie Lajoie, assistant professor of medical microbiology and infectious diseases and Francis A. Plummer Professorship in Global Infectious Diseases, received $200,000 (five years) from the University of Manitoba Start‑Up Grant for her project “Impact of aging on the immune response.”
Dr. Dylan MacKay, assistant professor in the department of internal medicine and the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences’ department of food and human nutritional sciences, is leading a new national project funded by Diabetes Canada investigating the potential for remission of type-2 diabetes using the new weight loss drug, tirzepatide. Read more
Dr. Paul Marcogliese, assistant professor of biochemistry and medical genetics, and
coPI Dr. Rizqa Sulaiman-Baradien, assistant professor of pediatrics and child health, received a $30,000 (one year) ENRRICH Catalyst Grant for their project “Drosophila as patient avatars for local rare-disease patients.”
Dr. Lyle McKinnon, associate professor of medical microbiology and infectious diseases, received $100,000 (one year) from CIHR. McKinnon’s team will collaborate with the transgender community in Nairobi to unravel factors that increase sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections risk in transgender people. Read more
Dr. Christiaan Righolt, assistant professor of surgery, and Dr. Amanda Fowler-Woods, assistant professor in the College of Community and Global Health, co-lead a project in close collaboration with a First Nations Advisory Circle that helped shape the study design. The team received $1.2 million (five years) from CIHR to fund a study that will use Indigenous research methods to better understand First Nations patients’ access to joint care and joint replacement surgery in Manitoba. Read more
Dr. Zulma Rueda, associate professor of medical microbiology and infectious diseases and Canada Research Chair in sexually transmitted infection – resistance and control, received $8,200 (one year) from the Canadian International Development Agency for her project “Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP) 2025–2026.”
Dr. Tanveer Sharif, associate professor of pathology, received $955,295 (five years) from CIHR for a project that investigate what causes immature cells in a child’s brain to become cancerous, leading to Group 3 medulloblastoma. Read more
Dr. Souradet Shaw, assistant professor of community and global health, received $100,000 (one year) from CIHR. Shaw’s team is partnering with Winnipeg’s Aboriginal Health and Wellness Centre. With a safer consumption site expected to open in inner-city Winnipeg in 2026, this project will evaluate its impact on people who use substances and on the broader community. Read more
Dr. Brandy Wicklow, professor of pediatrics and child health, received nearly $1.5 million (five years) from CIHR for a project that focuses on Type 2 diabetes as an intergenerational disease in First Nations communities. Read more
Dr. George Zhanel, professor and associate head of medical microbiology and infectious diseases, received $149,132 (one year) in funding from the Public Health Agency of Canada for his project “Improving sources, coverage, and integration of surveillance data for AMR in less common and emerging pathogens (SALE).”
The Can-SOLVE CKD Network’s Phase 2 extension application has been approved, providing $2 million over two years from CIHR, with an additional $4 million in partner funding to support network operations through 2028. Locally, four University of Manitoba researchers are listed as principal investigators on the grant. The individual projects, PIs and their UM affiliations are listed below:
- Mind the Gap: Addressing Mental Health Care Gaps for Canadians Receiving Facility-Based Hemodialysis
- UM PI: Dr. Clara Bohm, associate professor of internal medicine
- PRO-Kid: Implementation of a Patient-Reported Outcome Measure into Clinical Pediatric Nephrology Practice
- UM PI: Dr. Allison Dart, associate professor of pediatrics and child health
- iCARE: eGFR Knowledge Mobilization Strategy
- UM PIs: Dr. Allison Dart and Dr. Brandy Wicklow, associate professor of pediatrics and child health
- CKD Safety Net: Designing and Implementing a Safety Net Surveillance Program for High-Risk CKD
- UM PI: Dr. Navdeep Tangri, professor of internal medicine
Three assistant professors from the Max Rady College of Medicine are among 24 researchers who have received a total of nearly $1.8 million in New Investigator Operating Grants from Research Manitoba. The granting program is designed to support early-career researchers within the first four years of their initial academic appointment.
- Dr. Alicia Berard, assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences
- Project: “Investigating the role of mTOR in the vaginal microenvironment”
- Grant: $130,000 (two years)
- Dr. Joel Pearson, assistant professor of pharmacology and therapeutics
- Project: “Understanding the role of a TEAD/homeobox axis in the genesis and evolution of distinct small cell lung cancer subtypes”
- Grant: $130,000 (two years)
- Dr. Cedric Tremblay, assistant professor of immunology
- Project: “Investigating the role of interferon signaling in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia”
- Grant: $130,000 (two years)
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