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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 […]
Michael Smith Health Research BC announces the 2021 Health Professional-Investigator award recipients
Michael Smith Health Research BC announced the results of the the Health Professional-Investigator awards, which are “dedicated to support health professionals who are actively involved in patient care to conduct and apply research relevant to health and/or the health system to ultimately improve health outcomes in BC and beyond.” We are thrilled to congratulate WHRI member Dr. Nichole […]
Announcing the 2021 Graduate and Fellowship Award in Women’s Health Recipients
The Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI) is very pleased to congratulate the recipients of the 2021 Graduate and Fellowship Research Award in Women’s Health. This competition was funded thanks to the dedicated support of the BC Women’s Health Foundation. The WHRI launched this award in 2020 with a goal of creating a funding opportunity specific […]
Kate Wahl named one of the 2021 CIHR & Michael Smith Health Research BC co-funded Health System Impact Fellows
Congratulations to Kate Wahl who has been named a 2021 CIHR & Michael Smith Health Research BC co-funded Health System Impact Fellows. Kate’s work is in support of equitable access to contraception, and will contribute to the policy roll out of free prescription contraception in British Columbia. You can learn more about Kate’s work here.