COVID-Related Clinical Research Awardees
The Clinical Research Fund (CRF) has provided $400,000 to fund seven outstanding COVID-related projects which have brought in more than $1,080,000 in matching funds. A list of funded studies is below:
CRF COVID-Related Awardees
Grant Title:
Alberta HOPE covid19 trial (ABCOV1)
Principal Investigator: Luanne M. Metz
Co-Investigator: Michael D Hill, MD, MSc, FRCPC Lawrence, Richer, MD, MSc, FRCPC Ilan Schwartz, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Grant Title:
CATCO / WHO SOLIDARITY TRIAL
Principal Investigator: Alain Tremblay
Co-Investigator: John Conly, Ranjani Somayaji, Ken Parhar, Rachel Lim
Grant Title:
Understanding the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the well-being and care provision for patients at University of Calgary Brain and Mental Health Clinics
Principal Investigator: Pamela Roach
Co-Investigator: Colin B. Josephson, Scott B. Patten, Eric Smith
Grant Title:
Mitigating COVID-19 transmission among at-risk patients with opioid use disorder via improved tracking of impacts from illicit source disruption and facilitated access to buprenorphine-naloxone
Principal Investigator: Rita Isabel Henderson
Co-Investigator: Steven Persaud, Lynden (Lindsay) Crowshoe, Pamela Roach, HBI Myles Leslie, Bonnie Healy, William Wadsworth
Grant Title:
Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Detection in Children and Transmission Dynamics
Principal Investigator: Stephen Freedman
Co-Investigator: James Kellner, Byron Berenger, Joseph Vayalumkal, Anna Funk, Graham Tipples, Jie Hu, Antonia Stang
Grant Title:
Covid pRONe hypoxemiA (CORONA)-1 Trial
Principal Investigator: Jason Weatherald
Co-Investigator: Ken Parhar, Kevin Solverson, Luke Rannelli, Kerri Johannson, Dan Niven, Ben Wilson, Patrick Mitchell, Kara Nerenberg, Kirsten Fiest, Tom Stelfox
Grant Title:
CONvalescent Plasma for COVID-19 Research Trial (CONCOR-1 trial)
Principal Investigator: Mark Gillrie
Co-Investigator: Deepa Suryanarayan, Bryan Yipp, Etienne Mahe, and Andrew Demchuk