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CSM Grant Successes 2022

We would like to congratulate Cumming School of Medicine grant recipients for securing external research funding in 2022.

Key Outcomes - April 2022

Superimposed plots of the total operating dollars awarded to CSM faculty in all grant competitions per month (bars) and as a cumulative total (scatter plot). Values reflect total operating dollars committed by an agency for the duration of grants awarded that have been publicly announced. Note: The grants presented in this graph are those that we are aware of and gained by faculty members with a primary departmental appointment in the Cumming School of Medicine.

2022 Awardees

  1. Kathleen Chaput

    NFRF

    Explorations Grant

    Examining the current Canadian social context of prenatal cannabis consumption and intersections with maternal and infant health outcomes

  2. Tanvir Turin Chowdhury

    NFRF

    Explorations Grant

    Immigrant/racialized community mobilization towards empowerment through community-based health data cooperative 

  3. Joanna Rankin

    NFRF

    Explorations Grant

    Radical Mental Health Doulas: An innovative model of support for women with mental health challenges 

  4. Roman Krawetz

    NFRF

    Explorations Grant

    A transdisciplinary approach to develop stem cell therapies for equine cartilage injuries

  5. Trafford Crump

    NFRF

    Explorations Grant

    Using Novel Deep Functional Learning to Detect and Develop Personalized Risk Scores for Uveal Melanoma

  6. Pamela Roach

    CIHR

    Operating Grant: Indigenous COVID-19 Rapid Research FO-Research

    Implementation and Evaluation of an Indigenous Virtual Patient Experience Tool in Response to COVID-19

  7. Peter Stys

    NIH

    Project Grant

    Multiple Sclerosis as a cytodegenerative proteopathy

  8. Wee Yong

    US Department of Defence

    CDMRP Grant

    Defining and overcoming a novel extracellular matric inhibitor of remyelination in MS: Fibulin-2x

  9. Amy Metcalfe

    CIHR

    Patient Engagement Enhancement

    GROWW (Guiding interdisciplinary Research On cis- and trans-gendered Women's and girls health and Wellbeing) - SPOR Supplement

  10. Susan Samuel

    CIHR

    Patient Engagement Enhancement

    Empowering Next-generation Researchers in perinatal and Child Health (ENRICH) - SPOR Supplement

  11. Eric Smith

    CIHR

    Patient Engagement Enhancement

    Enhancing Patient Engagement in the Vascular Contributions to Cognitive Decline Training (VAST) Platform - SPOR Supplement

  1. Cheryl Peters

    Government of Alberta

    Alberta Health

    Carcinogens in Urban Environments: an innovative app-based approach to exposure assessment for cancer prevention

  2. Julia Kirkham

    CIHR

    Catalyst Grant: Quadruple Aim and Equity

    Measuring Schizophrenia Care: Towards Population Based Evaluation of Quality

  3. Kathryn Birnie

    CIHR

    Catalyst Grant: Quadruple Aim and Equity

    Choosing the right model of care together: Shared decision making to improve equitable implementation of in-person vs virtual care for youth with chronic pain and their families

  4. Gerald Giesbrecht

    CIHR

    Operating Grant: COVID-19 - Project Grant

    Prenatal exposure to maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection and neurodevelopment in children

  5. Peter Stys

    Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada

    Discovery Research Grants

    Mechanisms of delayed white matter degeneration following cuprizone exposure

  6. Voon Wee Yong

    Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada

    Discovery Research Grants

    Defining and overcoming a novel extracellular matrix inhibitor of remyelination in MS: Fibulin-2

  7. Carlos Camara-Lemarroy

    Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada

    Catalyst Research Grants

    Remote ischemic preconditioning to promote CNS remyelination

  8. Sarah Quirk

    CCS

    Data Transformation Grants

    Automation to support quality and completeness of radiation medicine data

  9. Darren Brenner

    CCS

    Data Transformation Grants

    Developing a Canadian Cancer Statistics Data Dashboard

  10. Yuan Xu

    CCS

    Data Transformation Grants

    Building Pipeline to Transform Real-world data to Evidence to Improve Cancer Care

  1. Alexander McGirr

    CIHR

    Project Grant Fall 2021

    Enhancing Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Major Depression with Adjunctive D-Cycloserine

  2. Bryan Yipp

    CIHR

    Project Grant Fall 2021

    Investigating the role of neutrophils during influenza A H1N1

  3. Carla Coffin

    CIHR

    Project Grant Fall 2021

    Investigation of Hepatitis B Virus Immunopathogenesis using Intravital Microscopy in the Woodchuck Hepatitis Virus (WHV) Model of Hepatitis B

  4. Craig Jenne

    CIHR

    Project Grant Fall 2021

    Mapping the Role of Platelets in Influenza-Associated Thrombosis in Peripheral Vasculature by Intravital and Super-Resolution Imaging

  5. David Campbell

    CIHR

    Project Grant Fall 2021

    Healthy Food Rx - Empowering food insecure Albertans to manage their diabetes through a subsidized healthy food prescription program: A randomized controlled trial & economic evaluation

  6. Deborah Kurrasch

    CIHR

    Project Grant Fall 2021

    Sexual differentiation of vasopressin in the embryonic hypothalamus

  7. George Chaconas

    CIHR

    Project Grant Fall 2021

    Pathogenic Strategies of the Lyme Disease Spirochete

  8. Glen Hazlewood

    CIHR

    Project Grant Fall 2021

    Personalizing the choice of therapy in rheumatoid arthritis

  9. James White

    CIHR

    Project Grant Fall 2021

    International study of Artificial Intelligence-based Diagnosis of Cardiomyopathy using cardiac MRI (AID-MRI)

  10. Justin Chun

    CIHR

    Project Grant Fall 2021

    Role for Lipid Droplet Associated IL-32 in Diabetic Kidney Disease

  11. Mayank Goyal

    CIHR

    Project Grant Fall 2021

    Optimizing Imaging for Medium Vessel Occlusion Stroke (ESCAPE-OPTIMUS)

     

  12. Marie-Claire Arrieta

    CIHR

    Project Grant Fall 2021

    The early-life mycobiome as a determinant of allergic airway inflammation

  13. Michael Hill

    CIHR

    Project Grant Fall 2021

    A Multicentre, Randomized, Double-blinded, Placebo-controlled, Parallel Group, Single-dose Design to Determine the Efficacy and Safety of Nerinetide in Subjects with Acute Ischemic Stroke Undergoing Endovascular Thrombectomy Excluding Thrombolysis (ESCAPE-NEXT Trial)

  14. Paul Kubes

    CIHR

    Project Grant Fall 2021

    The Biology of Liver Macrophages at Birth and Throughout Life

  15. Robert Newton

    CIHR

    Project Grant Fall 2021

    Understanding glucocorticoid resistance in inflammatory disease

  16. Robert Rose

    CIHR

    Project Grant Fall 2021

    Atrial fibrillation in diabetes mellitus: mechanisms and therapeutic approaches

  17. Roman Krawetz

    CIHR

    Project Grant Fall 2021

    A bioprocess that optimizes safe Human iPSCs for the treatment of osteoporotic fractures

  18. Stephen Freedman

    CIHR

    Project Grant Fall 2021

    Hyperhydration to Improve Kidney Outcomes in Children with Shiga Toxin-Producing E. coli Infection: A Multinational Cluster Randomized Crossover Trial

  19. Tyler Williamson

    CIHR

    Project Grant Fall 2021

    Building evidence for adopting a new disease classification system in Canadian primary care settings: a mixed methods feasibility study

  20. Winson Cheung

    CIHR

    Project Grant Fall 2021

    Optimizing the Treatment Approach of Older Patients with Cancer by Targeting Physician Factors

  21. Aravind Ganesh

    CIHR

    Project Grant - PA: Patient-Oriented Research: Early-Career Investigator

    EVOLVE-Cog: A prospective cohort study of the cognitive and neuropsychiatric effects of iatrogenic brain infarcts and their prevention by acetylsalicylic acid

  22. Cheryl Barnabe

    CIHR

    Project Grant - Priority Announcement: Patient-Oriented Research

    Acute Care Use by Patients with Inflammatory Arthritis Conditions: Health System Impact and Solutions for Ensuring Appropriate Ambulatory Care Access

  23. Dana Lee Olstad

    CIHR

    Project Grant - Priority Announcement: Population and Public Health

    Leveraging artificial intelligence to examine the impact of digital marketing of unhealthy food on children's dietary intake

  24. Gerald Giesbrecht

    CIHR

    Project Grant - PA: Mental Health and Resilience In The Early Years

    Prenatal exposure to maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection and neurodevelopment in children

  25. Khara Sauro

    CIHR

    Project Grant - Priority Announcement: Health Services and Policy Research

    Implementation of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery guidelines

  26. Michael Parkins

    CIHR

    Project Grant - Priority Announcement: Infection and Immunity

    Real-time Infection Control and Antimicrobial Stewardship Through Wastewater-Based Surveillance

  27. Gabriel Fabreau

    CIHR

    Op. Gr.:Emerg. COVID Res. Gaps/Priorities - Vaccine Distribution Models

    Investigating COVID-19 Vaccine Outreach Strategies for Marginalized Newcomer Communities

  28. Gerald Giesbrecht

    CIHR

    Op. Gr:Emerg. COVID Res. Gaps/Priorities- Social/Behavioural Science Approaches

    Short-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on infant socioemotional and neurodevelopment

  29. Amy Metcalfe

    CIHR

    Health Research Training Platform (HRTP) Pilot

    GROWW (Guiding interdisciplinary Research On cisand transgendered Women's and girls health and Wellbeing)

  30. Susan Samuel

    CIHR

    Health Research Training Platform (HRTP) Pilot

    Empowering Next-generation Researchers in perinatal and Child Health (ENRICH) 

  31. Eric Smith

    CIHR

    Health Research Training Platform (HRTP) Pilot

    Health Research Training to Address Vascular Contributions to Cognitive Decline: the Vascular Training (VAST) Platform

  1. Aravind Ganesh

    Alberta Innovates

    AICE Concepts

    Automated Remote Image-guided Diagnosis and Risk Stratification of Carotid Disease for Stroke prevention

  2. Joon Lee

    Alberta Innovates

    AICE Concepts

    Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and the APPROACH Registry to Transform Coronary Artery Disease Patient Care

  3. Darren Brenner

    CCR/CIHR

    Action Grants

    The Colorectal Cancer Chemoprevention Acceleration and iMprovement Platform (CRC-CHAMP) study

  4. Deborah Marshall

    CIHR

    Team Grant: E-Rare-3 Joint Transnational Call

    Producing an Arthritis Value-framework with economic Evidence - Paving the Way for Rare Childhood Diseases

  5. Ranita Harpreet Manocha

    Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine

    Research Grant

    Implementation of an app-based crutch skills training program following sport-related injury

  6. Marinka Twilt

    Arthritis Hub Society

    Strategic Operating Grant

    Three-dimensional facial imaging compared to MRI for JIA associated TMJ arthritis: Identifying easier access and a more patient-friendly method

  7. Roman Krawetz

    Arthritis Hub Society

    Strategic Operating Grant

    Creating the right microenvironment: Inhibiting mast cell derived tryptase proteolysis of PRG4/Lubricin

  8. Kara Nerenberg

    Alberta Innovates

    AICE Concepts

    IMPROVE-Virtual HEALTH (Healthy Eating and Active Living through Technology @ Home) for MOMS

  9. Lin Yang

    CCS/CIHR

    Action Grants

    Make healthy changes easy: AI enabled dialogue driven app for personalized cancer prevention – risk dialogue

  10. Khara Sauro

    CCS

    Challenge Grants

    Transitions in care among patients with cancer (CanTiC)

  11. Khara Sauro

    CIHR

    Operating Grant: Addressing the Wider Health Impacts of COVID-19

    The long and short of disruptions in surgical services due to the COVID-19 response: the impact and path forward

  12. Sheila McDonald

    CIHR

    Operating Grant: Addressing the Wider Health Impacts of COVID-19

    From languishing to flourishing: Exploring the wider and longitudinal impacts of COVID-19, use of supports, and recovery for families

  13. Aaron Goodarzi

    CIHR

    Operating Grant: Addressing the Wider Health Impacts of COVID-19

    Addressing rising Canadian radon gas-induced lung cancer risk due to COVID-19 pandemic-linked lung injury, disability, and behaviour change

  14. Jia Hu

    CIHR

    Operating Grant: Addressing the Wider Health Impacts of COVID-19

    The Next Steps for Childhood Vaccination: Community and Expert Consultation in Addressing Reductions in Childhood Vaccination Access and Uptake Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic for Kids New to Canada

  15. Darren Brenner

    CIHR

    Operating Grant: Addressing the Wider Health Impacts of COVID-19

    Mitigating the Long-Term Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Colorectal Cancer Care and Control in Alberta: Developing a Live Colorectal Cancer Activity Dashboard

  16. Abdel Aziz Shaheen

    CIHR

    Operating Grant: Addressing the Wider Health Impacts of COVID-19

    Understanding and Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic Effect on the Magnitude of Alcohol-Related Liver Disease in Alberta

We are intending to highlight all external research grants, not only tri-council, so please be sure to share your successes with our office. If your grant is missing from this list and you want it included in the next mailout please email Jenna Slobozian with the details.