February 2025 Award Winners

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has announced the awardees for the Fall 2024 Grant Competition and Vancouver researchers have cleaned up with millions of dollars being funneled towards incredible research and vital work. This month’s spotlight features CIHR Grant awardee Dr. Dustin King (pictured) from SFU’s Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. The King lab is unraveling how bacteria sense reactive metabolites. Dr. King, along with his co-applicants Drs. Amy Lee and David Vocadlo, were awarded $1 million to study CO2-dependent protein carboxylation as a biochemical mechanism of CO2 sensing in pathogens.

See all award winners for February 2025 below, including awardees beyond the CIHR Grants like the Zymeworks Fellowship and Genome BC Grant.