Celebrating CIHR Project Grant and Priority Grant Successes
Congratulations to the recipients of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) 2025 Fall Project and Priority Announcement grants! We are especially proud of our WHRI members, who are bolded in the recipient list.
Project Grant Results
Trauma-Informed Care Guidelines for Virtual Abortion Services (TICG-VAS)
Principal Investigator:
Abdulai Abdul-Fatawu
Norman, Wendy V
Institution Paid: University of British Columbia
Program Competition:
Project Grant
Competition (year/month):
2025/09
Amounts:
$374,851 over 3 yrs
Investing in Matriarchal Power, Access, Care and Traditional Wellness (IMPACT)
Principal Investigator:
Bingham, Brittany L
Institution Paid:
University of British Columbia
Program Competition:
Project Grant
Competition (year/month):
2025/09
Amounts:
$1,422,900 over 5 yrs
Does tailored referral support increase the reach of the Breast Cancer Endocrine Fitness (BE-FIT) program
Principal Investigator:
Campbell, Kristin
Neil-Sztramko, Sarah
Institution Paid:
University of British Columbia
Program Competition:
Project Grant
Competition (year/month):
2025/09
Amounts:
$600,525 over 5 yrs 0
Expanding opportunistic bilateral salpingectomy to laparoscopic cholecystectomy to prevent ovarian cancer: A feasibility and safety trial
Principal Investigator:
Hanley, Gillian E
Cowie, Scott
Mah, Sarah J
Nenshi, Rahima N
Serrano, Pablo E
Stuart, Heather
Institution Paid:
University of British Columbia
Program Competition:
Project Grant
Competition (year/month):
2025/09
Amounts:
$734,400 over 4 yrs
Transforming access to medications in rural, remote, and Indigenous communities: Implementing and evaluating virtual pharmacist care and drone delivery services
Principal Investigator:
Hoekstra Femke
Best, Bev
Cressman, Sonya
Holyk, Travis J
Howard, Trish A
Pammett, Robert
Pawlovich, John
Institution Paid:
University of British Columbia
Program Competition:
Project Grant
Competition (year/month):
2025/09
Amounts:
$680,852 over 4 yrs
Supercharging cancer immunotherapy using clinician-controlled cytokine receptors
Principal Investigator:
Nelson, Brad H
Institution Paid:
University of British Columbia
Program Competition:
Project Grant
Competition (year/month):
2025/09
Amounts:
$1,017,450 over 5 yrs
Characterizing the role of combined hormonal contraceptives on appetite and energy balance in the context of weight loss and maintenance
Principal Investigator:
Purcell, Sarah A
Institution Paid:
University of British Columbia
Program Competition:
Project Grant
Competition (year/month):
2025/09
Amounts:
$925,649 over 4 yrs 5 mths
Placental genetic and epigenetic changes linked to congenital heart defects
Principal Investigator:
Robinson, Wendy P
Institution Paid:
University of British Columbia
Program Competition:
Project Grant
Competition (year/month):
2025/09
Amounts:
$703,800 over 5 yrs
Unequal Ageing Trajectories Across the Life Course: Environmental Pathways, Protective Factors, and Actionable Levers
Principal Investigator:
Stringhini, Silvia
Institution Paid:
University of British Columbia
Program Competition:
Project Grant
Competition (year/month):
2025/09
Amounts:
$719,100 over 4 yrs
The feasibility and costs of pharmacy models supporting rural and remote communities: A simulation study
Principal Investigator:
Zhang, Wei
Kuo, I fan
Tseng, Ling-I Olivia
Institution Paid:
University of British Columbia
Program Competition:
Project Grant
Competition (year/month):
2025/09
Amounts:
$581,400 over 4 yrs
Priority Announcement Grant Results
Sex-specific biomechanical thresholds and cumulative risk models for sports-related brain injury
Principal Investigator:
Wu, Lyndia (Chun)
Ji, Songbai
Institution Paid: University of British Columbia
Program Competition: Project Grant – Priority Announcement: Female Athlete Health
Competition (year/month): 2025/09
Amounts: $100,000 over 1 yr
Mid-Colon Goblet Cells: Primary Source of the Protective Colonic Mucus Barrier
Principal Investigator:
Vallance, Bruce A
Institution Paid: University of British Columbia
Program Competition: Project Grant – Priority Annoucement: Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes
Competition (year/month): 2025/09
Amounts: $100,000 over 1 yr
Long-Term Follow-Up Study of NOVA-HIV: Nonavalent HPV Vaccination in Women Living with HIV
Principal Investigator:
McClymont, Elisabeth K
Money, Deborah M
Institution Paid: University of British Columbia
Program Competition: Project Grant – Priority Announcement: HIV/AIDS and STBBI
Competition (year/month): 2025/09
Amounts: $100,000 over 1 yr
How Does Home Care Services Use Impact Downstream Healthcare Utilization and System Costs for Canada's Aging Population? A Cross-Provincial Longitudinal Cohort Study
Principal Investigator:
Hsu, Amy T
Magalhaes, Sandra
Zhang, Wei
Institution Paid: University of British Columbia
Program Competition: Project Grant – Priority Announcement: Patient-Oriented Research
Competition (year/month): 2025/09
Amounts: $100,000 over 1 yr
Companions or Crutches? The Social Uses and Psychological Consequences of Conversational Large Language Models
Principal Investigator:
Card, Kiffer G
Aknin, Lara
Benoit, Cecilia M
Chen, Frances
Cosco, Theodore D
Joordens, Steve
Kim, Lawrence
Institution Paid: Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, B.C.)
Program Competition: Project Grant – Priority Announcement: Patient-Oriented Research
Competition (year/month): 2025/09
Amounts: $100,000 over 1 yr
Mental Health, Resilience, Memory and Memory Sharing in the Aftermath of Pregnancy Loss
Principal Investigator:
Palombo, Daniela J
Institution Paid: University of British Columbia
Program Competition: Project Grant – Priority Announcement: Sex/Gender in Health Res.- Adv. Intersec. in sex/gender science
Competition (year/month): 2025/09
Amounts: $100,000 over 1 yr
The impact of menopause on acute myocardial infarctions and the use of estrogen receptor agonists to protect the heart
Principal Investigator:
Pyle, Glen W
Institution Paid: University of Guelph
Program Competition: Project Grant – Priority Announcement: Sex/Gender in Health Res.- Understanding sex/gender mech./processes
Competition (year/month): 2025/09
Amounts: $100,000 over 1 yr