The project entitled Women in Health and their Economic, Equity and Livelihood statuses during Emergency Preparedness and Response (WHEELER) was awarded more than $980,000 by the International Development Research Centre. Dr. Lisa Avery, assistant professor of community health sciences, is the Canadian PI and Dr. Rob Lorway, professor of community health sciences and Canada Research Chair in global intervention politics and social transformation, is a co-investigator.
Dr. Meghan Azad, professor of pediatrics and child health and Canada Research Chair in developmental origins of chronic disease, received US$2.5 million in funding over five years from the National Institutes of Health for a project called the Multi-omic Milk (MuMi) Study. Read more.
Dr. Harvey Max Chochinov, distinguished professor of psychiatry, received $100,000 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for a study where health-care professionals will hold conversations with cancer patients, guided by the Patient Dignity Question: “What do I need to know about you as a person to take the best care of you possible?” Read more.
Dr. Ian Dixon, professor of physiology and pathophysiology, and principal investigator at the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences at St. Boniface Hospital, received more than $1 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for a project that centres on proteins and processes involved in skin wound healing, with the goal of developing treatments to speed wound closure and reduce scarring. Read more.
Dr. Soheila Karimi, professor of physiology and pathophysiology, received more than $1.1 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for a project that will test an experimental treatment aimed at optimizing the use of neural stem cells for repairing spinal cord injury. Read more.
Dr. Lauren Kelly, assistant professor of pharmacology and therapeutics, and community health sciences, has received $4.9 million over three years from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Clinical Trials Fund to help prepare the next generation of researchers to run clinical trials in the areas of pregnancy and pediatrics. Read more.
Dr. Jason Kindrachuk, assistant professor of medical microbiology and infectious diseases and Canada Research Chair in molecular pathogenesis of emerging viruses, received $750,000 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to investigate the circulation and transmission of the monkeypox virus in wildlife in regions of Africa where the virus is endemic, as well as surrounding areas. Read more. Kindrachuk also received $2.8 million from the CIHR Centre for Research on Pandemic Preparedness and Health Emergencies and Canada’s International Development Research Centre to investigate the global spread of mpox and the evolving virus that causes the illness. Read more.
The project entitled Connecting with Cultural Heritage: Land-based Learning and Healing through Archaeology in Northern Manitoba was awarded more than $1.4 million by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for three years. The principal investigators are Dr. Linda Larcombe, associate professor of internal medicine, Dr. Andrew Hatala, associate professor of community health sciences, and Dr. Laura Kelvin, assistant professor of anthropology.
Dr. Tom Jelic, assistant professor of emergency medicine, is the provincial lead and a co-investigator for the Accelerated Remote Consultation Tele-POCUS in Cardiopulmonary Assessment (ARCTICA) project, which aims to see if physicians and nurses working in rural and remote communities can be taught how to perform a focused cardiac and lung assessment using point of care ultrasound. The study was awarded $200,000 from the New Frontiers in Research Fund – Exploration.
Dr. Lorrie Kirshenbaum, professor of physiology and pathophysiology and Canada Research Chair in molecular cardiology, received more than $850,000 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for a project that builds on the growing evidence of a link between body-clock disruptions – like those experienced by shift workers and people with health issues such as sleep apnea – and cardiac dysfunction. Read more.
Dr. Linda Larcombe, associate professor of internal medicine, community health sciences and medical microbiology/infectious diseases, received $1.4 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for a project called Connecting with cultural heritage: Land-Based learning and healing through archeology. Read more.
Dr. Murdoch Leeies, assistant professor of emergency medicine, is partnering with Dr. Farzad Zaerpour from the University of Winnipeg’s Faculty of Business to develop a data-driven decision support system for managing patient flow in emergency departments with the ultimate goal of decreasing barriers to accessing emergency medicine care for all patients. Their work was awarded $99,000 from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant.
Dr. Lisa Lix, professor of community health sciences and Canada Research Chair in methods for electronic health data quality, received more than $500,000 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for a study that focuses on using anonymized health-care databases to construct personal and family disease histories for chronic illnesses, such as heart disease. Read more.
Dr. Jon McGavock, professor of pediatrics and child health, received $1 million over four years from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for a study that aims to improve the mental health of teenagers living with Type 1 diabetes by increasing physical activity and assigning them a peer mentor who has gone through similar experiences. Read more.
Dr. Suresh Mishra, professor of internal medicine, received $100,000 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to explore the role of cholesterol in the body’s production of steroid hormones. Read more.
Dr. Neeloffer Mookherjee, professor of internal medicine, received $100,000 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to look at differences in how rheumatoid arthritis develops in males and females. Read more.
Dr. Christopher Pascoe, assistant professor of physiology and pathophysiology, received $100,000 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for a project that aims to better understand how diabetes in pregnancy increases the risk of asthma in offspring. Read more.
Dr. Marshall Pitz, associate professor of internal medicine, has received a $1.5 million Canadian Cancer Society Breakthrough Team Grant to help establish a Canadian clinical trial to test new and promising treatments for people with low-survival brain cancers. Read more.
Dr. Mojgan Rastegar, professor of biochemistry and medical genetics, received more than $990,000 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for a study that will investigate the molecular and cellular abnormalities of the brain in Rett syndrome. The co-applicant is Dr. James Davie, distinguished professor of biochemistry and medical genetics, and Canada Research Chair in chromatin dynamics. Read more. Dr. Rastegar also received $25,000 from the University Collaborative Research Program to explore the role of MeCP2 isoforms in medulloblastoma brain tumour. The co-applicant is Dr. Susan Logue, assistant professor of human anatomy and cell science, and Canada Research Chair in cell stress and inflammation.
Dr. Emily Rimmer, assistant professor of internal medicine, received more than $307,000 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for a project that is a pilot study in preparation for an international randomized controlled trial of therapeutic plasma exchange as a treatment for septic shock. 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 $100,000 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to look at the incidence and impact of methamphetamine use and concurrent sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections in people living with HIV in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Read more.
Dr. Adrian West, assistant professor in physiology and pathophysiology, has been awarded $250,000 over two years through the Government of Canada’s New Frontiers in Research Fund – Exploration stream to advance cutting-edge three-dimensional bioprinting technology to create patient-specific heart models of those living with rare genetic diseases. Read more.