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Congratulations to the new and renewed Canada Research Chairs!
We would like to extend a warm congratulations to Dr. Crystal Karakochuk and Dr. Gina Ogilvie on their new and renewed Canada Research Chair appointments! Dr. Karakochuk has been appointed a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Micronutrients and Human Health. Dr. Ogilvie is a renewed Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Control of […]
Team featuring two WHRI members awarded CIHR Training Grant
Congratulations to the CAMCCO-L Training Platform team on a successful CIHR Training Grant! The team features WHRI members Dr. Gillian Hanley and Dr. Timothy Oberlander. Training Grant: Health Research Training Platform – Drug Safety and Effectiveness The CAnadian Mother-ChIld COLlaborative Training Platform – The CAMCCO-L Training Platform PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR(S) Anick Bérard Isabelle Boucoiran Bruce C […]
CIHR announces results of Doctoral Research Funding competition
The Women’s Health Research Institute would like to congratulate the recipients of CIHR’s Doctoral Research Awards, including two trainee members! Doctoral Research Award: Canada Graduate Scholarships Doctoral Award 2021-2022 Preventing ovarian cancer using machine learning to recommend opportunistic salpingectomy in British Columbia: An exploratory mixed-methods approach PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR(S) Alexandra M Lukey (Trainee Member) SUPERVISOR Gillian […]
CIHR announces new Fellowships
We were thrilled to see WHRI members named as supervisors on four CIHR Fellowships this funding period. We’d like to extend a warm congratulations to the new CIHR Fellows – we can’t wait to see the outcomes of your work! Fellowship: CIHR fellowship Predictive biomarkers for ovarian cancer: analysis of patient derived xenografts under treatment at […]
Congratulations to the recipients of CIHR Operating Grants
Congratulations to the recipients of CIHR’s Operating Grants to Address the Wider Impacts of COVID-19 – Impact of Deferred/Displaced Care on Health! Among the recipients were two teams led by WHRI members. Operating Grant: Addressing the Wider Health Impacts of COVID-19 – Impact of deferred/displaced care on health COVID-19 and Recurrent Pregnancy Loss: Impact of […]
UBC announces 2022/23 Research Excellence Clusters
The University of British Columbia has announced forty research excellence clusters funded in 2022/23 through their Research Excellence Clusters initiative. Among the recipients of this year’s funding were four clusters led by WHRI members: Established Clusters Transformative Health and Justice Dr. Helen Brown Women’s Health Research Cluster Dr. Liisa Galea Emerging Clusters Advancing the Science […]
Dr. Gillian Hanley and Dr. Aline Talhouk named as recipients of September 2021 Action Grants
The Canadian Cancer Society/Canadian Institutes of Health Research 2021 Action Grants Competition was held with the intention “to motivate Canadians to take ‘action’ to avoid known modifiable risk factors for cancer and to encourage the research and end-user communities to take ‘action’ towards harnessing new ideas, platforms and technologies from within and outside the cancer […]
CIHR announces results of 2021 Fall Project Grant competition
Congratulations to the recipients of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research 2021 Fall Project Grant Competition! We were thrilled to see 19 WHRI and BCCHR-WHRI joint members were represented across 6 Project Grants and 3 Priority Announcement Project Grants. CIHR PROJECT GRANTS Placental sex as a biological determinant in trophoblast function and trophoblast-directed immune activity […]
Announcing the 2021 Women’s Health Research Institute Catalyst Grant Recipients
The Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI) is very pleased to congratulate the recipients of the 2021 Women’s Health Research Institute Catalyst Grants. This competition was funded thanks to the dedicated support of the BC Women’s Health Foundation. One of seven awards for this year’s competition was funded by CIHR’s Sex and Gender Chair Program to support […]