We would like to congratulate Cumming School of Medicine grant recipients for securing external research funding in 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
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Kathleen Chaput
NFRF
Explorations Grant
Examining the current Canadian social context of prenatal cannabis consumption and intersections with maternal and infant health outcomes
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Tanvir Turin Chowdhury
NFRF
Explorations Grant
Immigrant/racialized community mobilization towards empowerment through community-based health data cooperative
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Joanna Rankin
NFRF
Explorations Grant
Radical Mental Health Doulas: An innovative model of support for women with mental health challenges
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Roman Krawetz
NFRF
Explorations Grant
A transdisciplinary approach to develop stem cell therapies for equine cartilage injuries
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Trafford Crump
NFRF
Explorations Grant
Using Novel Deep Functional Learning to Detect and Develop Personalized Risk Scores for Uveal Melanoma
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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
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Peter Stys
NIH
Project Grant
Multiple Sclerosis as a cytodegenerative proteopathy
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Wee Yong
US Department of Defence
CDMRP Grant
Defining and overcoming a novel extracellular matric inhibitor of remyelination in MS: Fibulin-2x
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Amy Metcalfe
CIHR
Patient Engagement Enhancement
GROWW (Guiding interdisciplinary Research On cis- and trans-gendered Women's and girls health and Wellbeing) - SPOR Supplement
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Susan Samuel
CIHR
Patient Engagement Enhancement
Empowering Next-generation Researchers in perinatal and Child Health (ENRICH) - SPOR Supplement
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Eric Smith
CIHR
Patient Engagement Enhancement
Enhancing Patient Engagement in the Vascular Contributions to Cognitive Decline Training (VAST) Platform - SPOR Supplement
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Cheryl Peters
Government of Alberta
Alberta Health
Carcinogens in Urban Environments: an innovative app-based approach to exposure assessment for cancer prevention
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Julia Kirkham
CIHR
Catalyst Grant: Quadruple Aim and Equity
Measuring Schizophrenia Care: Towards Population Based Evaluation of Quality
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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
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Gerald Giesbrecht
CIHR
Operating Grant: COVID-19 - Project Grant
Prenatal exposure to maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection and neurodevelopment in children
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Peter Stys
Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada
Discovery Research Grants
Mechanisms of delayed white matter degeneration following cuprizone exposure
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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
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Carlos Camara-Lemarroy
Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada
Catalyst Research Grants
Remote ischemic preconditioning to promote CNS remyelination
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Sarah Quirk
CCS
Data Transformation Grants
Automation to support quality and completeness of radiation medicine data
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Darren Brenner
CCS
Data Transformation Grants
Developing a Canadian Cancer Statistics Data Dashboard
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Yuan Xu
CCS
Data Transformation Grants
Building Pipeline to Transform Real-world data to Evidence to Improve Cancer Care
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Alexander McGirr
CIHR
Project Grant Fall 2021
Enhancing Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Major Depression with Adjunctive D-Cycloserine
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Bryan Yipp
CIHR
Project Grant Fall 2021
Investigating the role of neutrophils during influenza A H1N1
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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
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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
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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
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Deborah Kurrasch
CIHR
Project Grant Fall 2021
Sexual differentiation of vasopressin in the embryonic hypothalamus
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George Chaconas
CIHR
Project Grant Fall 2021
Pathogenic Strategies of the Lyme Disease Spirochete
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Glen Hazlewood
CIHR
Project Grant Fall 2021
Personalizing the choice of therapy in rheumatoid arthritis
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James White
CIHR
Project Grant Fall 2021
International study of Artificial Intelligence-based Diagnosis of Cardiomyopathy using cardiac MRI (AID-MRI)
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Justin Chun
CIHR
Project Grant Fall 2021
Role for Lipid Droplet Associated IL-32 in Diabetic Kidney Disease
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Mayank Goyal
CIHR
Project Grant Fall 2021
Optimizing Imaging for Medium Vessel Occlusion Stroke (ESCAPE-OPTIMUS)
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Marie-Claire Arrieta
CIHR
Project Grant Fall 2021
The early-life mycobiome as a determinant of allergic airway inflammation
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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)
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Paul Kubes
CIHR
Project Grant Fall 2021
The Biology of Liver Macrophages at Birth and Throughout Life
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Robert Newton
CIHR
Project Grant Fall 2021
Understanding glucocorticoid resistance in inflammatory disease
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Robert Rose
CIHR
Project Grant Fall 2021
Atrial fibrillation in diabetes mellitus: mechanisms and therapeutic approaches
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Roman Krawetz
CIHR
Project Grant Fall 2021
A bioprocess that optimizes safe Human iPSCs for the treatment of osteoporotic fractures
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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
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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
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Winson Cheung
CIHR
Project Grant Fall 2021
Optimizing the Treatment Approach of Older Patients with Cancer by Targeting Physician Factors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Khara Sauro
CIHR
Project Grant - Priority Announcement: Health Services and Policy Research
Implementation of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery guidelines
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Michael Parkins
CIHR
Project Grant - Priority Announcement: Infection and Immunity
Real-time Infection Control and Antimicrobial Stewardship Through Wastewater-Based Surveillance
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Gabriel Fabreau
CIHR
Op. Gr.:Emerg. COVID Res. Gaps/Priorities - Vaccine Distribution Models
Investigating COVID-19 Vaccine Outreach Strategies for Marginalized Newcomer Communities
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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
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Amy Metcalfe
CIHR
Health Research Training Platform (HRTP) Pilot
GROWW (Guiding interdisciplinary Research On cisand transgendered Women's and girls health and Wellbeing)
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Susan Samuel
CIHR
Health Research Training Platform (HRTP) Pilot
Empowering Next-generation Researchers in perinatal and Child Health (ENRICH)
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Eric Smith
CIHR
Health Research Training Platform (HRTP) Pilot
Health Research Training to Address Vascular Contributions to Cognitive Decline: the Vascular Training (VAST) Platform
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Aravind Ganesh
Alberta Innovates
AICE Concepts
Automated Remote Image-guided Diagnosis and Risk Stratification of Carotid Disease for Stroke prevention
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Joon Lee
Alberta Innovates
AICE Concepts
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and the APPROACH Registry to Transform Coronary Artery Disease Patient Care
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Darren Brenner
CCR/CIHR
Action Grants
The Colorectal Cancer Chemoprevention Acceleration and iMprovement Platform (CRC-CHAMP) study
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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
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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
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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
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Roman Krawetz
Arthritis Hub Society
Strategic Operating Grant
Creating the right microenvironment: Inhibiting mast cell derived tryptase proteolysis of PRG4/Lubricin
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Kara Nerenberg
Alberta Innovates
AICE Concepts
IMPROVE-Virtual HEALTH (Healthy Eating and Active Living through Technology @ Home) for MOMS
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Lin Yang
CCS/CIHR
Action Grants
Make healthy changes easy: AI enabled dialogue driven app for personalized cancer prevention – risk dialogue
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Khara Sauro
CCS
Challenge Grants
Transitions in care among patients with cancer (CanTiC)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.