WHRI is proud to announce that out of the many applicants to the CIHR Fall 2017 Project Grant Competition, six award recipients were WHRI or BCCHRI/WHRI joint investigators, with combined awards totaling over $6.08 million!
The competition intends to “capture ideas with the greatest potential to advance health-related fundamental or applied knowledge, health research, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes”. Given the highly competitive nature of the CIHR Project Schemes, this is an outstanding achievement.
This year CIHR committed a $372M investment to the competition, and funded 512 grants. The overall applicant success rate was 15%, and BC’s success rate ranked highest in the country at 20%.
We look forward to sharing with you more details on the individual projects in the coming months!
WHRI Recipients |
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| Principal Investigator | Project Title | CIHR Contribution | Term | |
| Helene Cote | WHRI Investigator | Placental mitochondrial dysfunction and pregnancy outcomes in HIV+ and HIV- women | $1.6 million*
*Conditional to Stem Cell Oversight Committee approval |
5 years |
| Soren Gantt | BCCHRI/WHRI Investigator | Viral determinants of natural human cytomegalovirus transmission | $1,143,675 | 5 years |
| Jennifer Hutcheon | BCCHRI/WHRI Investigator | Short term benefits but long term harm? Assessing the consequences of antenatal corticosteroid administration for child neurodevelopment | $221,850 | 3 years |
| Joelle LeMoult | WHRI Investigator | Characterizing the Peripheral Biology of Depression, Social Anxiety, and theri Comorbidity | $573,750 | 6 years |
| Saraswathi Vedam | WHRI Investigator | Giving Voice to Mothers; Measuring access to high quality, respectful maternity care in Canada | $883,575 | 5 years |
| Paul Yong | WHRI/BCCHRI Investigator | Sexual pain in endometriosis: role of somatic mutations and local neurogensis | $976,904 | 4 years |