Celebrating Success: Fall 2024 CIHR Project Grants
Congratulations to the WHRI Members who led or are partners on successful Fall 2024 Canadian Institute of Health Research project grants!
WHRI members are bolded in the recipient list.
Project Grants
The SUPPORT Project: Evaluating Substance Use Perinatal Programs to Optimize Resources and Treatment
Principal Investigator:
Barker Brittany M
Malhotra, Unjali
Nosyk, Bohdan P
Skiber, Darci
Institution Paid: Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, B.C.)
Program Competition: Project Grant
Competition (year/month): 2024/09
Amounts: $1,281,376; 4 yrs 0 mth
Link to Abstract: Here
Co-development and Evaluation of Video Resources to Support Racialized Women's Postpartum Mental Health
Principal Investigator:
Hirani, Saima
Dev, Rubee
Institution Paid:
University of British Columbia
Program Competition:
Project Grant
Competition (year/month):
2024/09
Amounts:
$302,174; 3 yrs 0 mth
Link to Abstract: Here
Elucidate the targetable mechanisms underpinning the development of a pregnancy-associated breast cancer in BRCA1 mutation carriers.
Principal Investigator:
Maxwell Christopher A
Institution Paid:
University of British Columbia
Program Competition:
Project Grant
Competition (year/month):
2024/09
Amounts:
$1,074,825; 5 yrs 0 mth
Link to Abstract: Here
Determining the neuroprotective effects of Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 on neurodevelopmental impairments related to neonatal pain and sucrose-induced inflammatory stress
Principal Investigator:
Ranger, Manon
Tremblay, Sophie
Institution Paid:
University of British Columbia
Program Competition:
Project Grant
Competition (year/month):
2024/09
Amounts:
$734,400; 5 yrs 0 mth
Link to Abstract: Here
Effect of Canada's first universal contraception subsidy on access, pregnancy outcomes, and costs: a population-based controlled interrupted time series study
Principal Investigator:
Schummers, Laura
Clement, Fiona Mary
Henry, Bonnie J
Law, Michael R
Nickel, Nathan C
Institution Paid:
University of British Columbia
Program Competition:
Project Grant
Competition (year/month):
2024/09
Amounts:
$929,476; 4 yrs 0 mth
Link to Abstract: Here
Brain Connectome and Neurodevelopment in Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy
Principal Investigator:
Selvanathan, Thiviya
Institution Paid:
University of British Columbia
Program Competition:
Project Grant
Competition (year/month):
2024/09
Amounts:
$615,825; 5 yrs 0 mth
Link to Abstract: Here