Dr. Tracie Afifi, professor of community health sciences, received $100,000 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to update and expand on her 10-year-old study related to child maltreatment across Canada. Read more.
Dr. Heather Armstrong, assistant professor of internal medicine, received $814,725 over five years from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to study the reasons why some dietary fibres are not well tolerated in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases. Read more.
Dr. Robert Beattie, assistant professor of biochemistry and medical genetics, received $130,000 over two years from Research Manitoba’s New Investigator Operating Grants program for his project Dissecting the Contribution of Copy Number Variants in Brain Development and Disease at Single Cell Resolution. Read more.
Dr. Renée El-Gabalawy, associate professor of clinical health psychology, received $100,000 from The Winnipeg Foundation Innovation Fund to study the use of virtual reality to treat phantom limb pain. Read more.
Dr. Keith Fowke, department head and professor of medical microbiology and infectious diseases, received $956,250 over five years from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to partner with organizations and community members in Nairobi, Kenya, to better understand the immune system among women who clear human papilloma virus infection. Read more.
Dr. Brett Houston, professor of internal medicine, received $127,516 over two years from Research Manitoba’s New Investigator Operating Grants program for her project Evaluation of tranexamic acid among outpatients with myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myeloid leukemia: a multicentre pilot trial. Read more.
Dr. Soheila Karimi, professor of physiology and pathophysiology, and founding director of the Manitoba Multiple Sclerosis Research Centre, received $1,143,675 over five years from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to study what could one day be a new treatment for progressive multiple sclerosis. Read more.
Dr. Paul Marcogliese and Dr. Robert Beattie, assistant professors of biochemistry and medical genetics, are recipients of the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund. They received $345,000 for their project Functional Integration of Neurogenetics in Development & Disease. Read more.
Dr. Asher Mendelson, assistant professor of internal medicine, was a recipient of the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund. He received $156,670 for his project Microvascular Physiology, Exercise, and Muscle Research Facility for Studying Critical Illness. Read more.
Dr. Donald Miller, professor of pharmacology and therapeutics, will received $75,000 over two years from Research Manitoba’s Innovation Proof-of-Concept Grants for his study Examination of lipid nanoparticle loaded hydrogels for localized silencing of spermidine/spermine acetyl transferase-1 (SAT1) expression in tumor and enhanced radiation and chemotherapy response. Read more.
Dr. Nathan Nickel, associate professor of community health sciences, received $577,574 over three years from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. In partnership with the Manitoba Métis Federation, Dr. Nickel and his team’s study will shed light on whether a Manitoba Health campaign that promoted the importance of childhood vaccinations improved childhood vaccination among Métis families. Read more.
Dr. Christopher Pascoe, assistant professor of physiology and pathophysiology, received $784,125 over five years from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to better understand why exposure to diabetes during pregnancy makes airways twitchier in asthma. Read more.
Dr. Joel Pearson, assistant professor of pharmacology and therapeutics, received $983,025 over five years from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to lead a study aimed at understanding the underlying causes of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and how non-small cell lung cancer can change to SCLC. Read more. Dr. Pearson was also a winner of a Canadian Cancer Society’s 2023 Emerging Scholar Research Grant. He received $550,000 for five years for a study to better understand how lung cancer progresses, specifically SCLC. Read more.
Dr. Souradet Shaw, assistant professor of community health sciences, received $883,576 over four years from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to develop a deeper understanding of trends, determinants and responses to sexually transmitted and bloodborne infections in Manitoba over a 30-year period. Read more.
Taillieu, T.L., Ricciardelli, R. Cannabis use among correctional workers in Canada. University of Manitoba Research Grants Program (URGP), 2024-2025, $10,000.
Taillieu, T.L., Afifi, T.O., Brownell, M., Nickel, N., Enns, J., Sareen, J., & Katz, L. A population-based examination of the public health impacts of the legalization of recreational use of cannabis on children and youth from Manitoba. Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) Operating Grant: Data Analysis Using Existing Databases and Cohorts. 2024-2025. $75,000.
Dr. Galen Wright, assistant professor of pharmacology and therapeutics, and Canada Research Chair in neurogenomics, received $100,000 from The Winnipeg Foundation Innovation Fund to study the genetic modifiers in Huntington’s disease. Read more.
Dr. René Zahedi, professor of internal medicine, received $100,000 from The Winnipeg Foundation Innovation Fund and will be using multi-omics and artificial intelligence to help better understand calcified aortic valve stenosis. Read more.
Grants submitted by the department of medical microbiology and infectious diseases grants:
Travel Awards – Institute Community Support: Health inequalities among people diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus and tuberculosis in Manitoba: Missed opportunities in the access to testing, treatment, and linkage to care. PIs: Arroyave, Luisa. Supervisor: Keynan, Yoav (supervisor). For: $3000
Travel Awards – Institute Community Support: Understanding the Impact of Drug Use on the Microbiome and Sexually Transmitted and Blood Borne Infections in People Living with HIV. PIs: Herrera Diaz, Mariana D. Supervisor: Rueda, Zulma V (supervisor). For: $3000
Project Grant: Identifying immune markers of HPV viral clearance. PIs: Fowke, Keith R; Kimani, Joshua; Lajoie, Julie. Co-Is: Mckinnon, Lyle R. For: $956,250 over 5 years.
Project Grant: The Manitoba STBBI Epidemiology Platform (MB-STEP): Leveraging Epidemiology to Transform Public Health Responses to Sexually Transmitted and Bloodborne Infections. PIs: Shaw, Souradet Y; Lorway, Robert R; Nickel, Nathan C. Co-Is: Afifi, Tracie O; Becker, Marissa; du Plessis, Elsabé; Gervais, Laverne; Kindrachuk, Kenneth J; Lazarus, Lisa; Lix, Lisa M; McClarty, Leigh M; Mckinnon, Lyle R; Reimer, Joss; Stein, Derek R. For: $883,576 over 4 years
Project Grant: Profiling the microbiota-mediated effects of specific dietary fibres on gut barrier and immune cell populations in IBD. PIs: Armstrong, Heather. Co-Is: Bernstein, Charles N; Lunken, Genelle R; Vallance, Bruce A; Vasanthan, Thava. For: $814,725 over 5 years.
Operating Grant: SPOR Innovative Clinical Trial Multi-Year Grant: REACHing underserved and undiagnosed populations living with STBBIs in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba: “Test, treat and linkage to culturally appropriate care”. PIs: Rourke, Sean B; Kisikaw Piyesis, Margaret L; Fleury, Mathew; Keynan, Yoav; Rueda, Zulma V; Singh, Ameeta E; Skinner, Stuart J. Co-Is: Johnston, Christine; Kurbis, Carol; Sarin, Christopher; Galli, Richard; Gratrix, Jennifer; MacLennan, Kristin; Minion, Jessica; Spence, Cara J; Wudel, Beverly. For: $2,000,000 over 4 years
Planning and Dissemination Grant – Institute Community Support: Establishing Research Priorities to Understand Social Norms Influencing Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Mwanza State, Tanzania. PIs: Shaw, Souradet Y; Avery, Lisa S. Co-Is: du Plessis, Elsabé; Kihara, Anne; Urassa, Mark S. For: $19,982 over 1 year
Project Grant: Congratulations to Dr. Keith Fowke on the CIHR project grant entitled “Inflammation and HPV persistence” ($450,000 for 3 years).
Project Grant: Congratulations to Dr. Lyle McKinnon on the CIHR project grant entitled “Tissue correlates of HPV clearance in women: implications for therapeutic HPV vaccines.” ($450,000 for 3 years).
Project Grant: Congratulations to Dr. Xiao-Jian Yao on the CIHR project grant entitled “Development of a multivalent rVSV vaccine against different Chlamydia trachomatis urogenital infections” ($450,000 for 3 years).
Project Grant: Congratulations to Dr. Derek Stein on the CIHR project grant entitled “Genomic epidemiology and vaccines combined: A comprehensive approach to pre-clinical Syphilis vaccine discovery.”($450,000 for 3 years).
Project Grant: Congratulations to Dr. Zulma Rueda on the CIHR project grant entitled “Incidence and impact of methamphetamine use and concurrent sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections in people living with HIV in the Prairies” ($450,000 for 3 years).
Project Grant: Congratulations to Dr. Zulma Rueda on the CIHR project grant entitled “Mycoplasma genitalium: systematically studying the epidemiology of a neglected and increasingly drug-resistant sexually transmitted infection among people living with HIV in Manitoba” ($100,000 for 1 year).
Project Grant: Congratulations to Dr. Lyle McKinnon on the project grant entitled “The clinical history of rectal and urethral STIs among MSM: Characterizing microbiome-host immune interactions for diagnostic and vaccine advances” from Rush University Medical Center. ($147,523.00 USD for 5 years).