The Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) has announced its latest Foundation Grants and five members of the Faculty of Medicine are among the awardees. A total of nine researchers from UBC attracted a combined $23.4m.
CIHR Foundation Grant Recipients:
The five UBC Faculty of Medicine recipients and their project titles are:
Michael Hayden, Professor, Department of Medical Genetics
Novel Approaches Directed to Prevention and Treatment of Huntington Disease, $3.6M for 7 years
David Huntsman, Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Mutation, cell context, and the pathogenesis of ovarian cancer, $2.7M for 7 years
Megan Levings, Professor, Department of Surgery
Molecular and cellular biology of T regulatory cells, $2.0M for 7 years
Keith Walley, Professor, Department of Medicine
Translational research to improve sepsis outcomes, $2.0M for 7 years
Yu Tian Wang, Professor, Department of Medicine
Regulation of postsynaptic expression and function of ionotropic neurotransmitter receptors, $5.0M for 7 years
