February 2026 Award Winners

We’re excited to celebrate another month of remarkable achievements from the Vancouver research community! This February, over 65 life science researchers from our community won Fall 2025 Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Grants to help bring their research proposals to the lab bench. We’ve highlighted the outstanding contributions of project lead Dr. Ali Bashashati and his collaborators Drs. Brad Nelson and Gillian Hanley at UBC and BC Cancer, whose collaborative work is breaking new ground in ovarian cancer research with a $1 million AI Accelerator Grant from the Global Ovarian Cancer Research Consortium. Drs. Brad Nelson and Gillian Hanley were also awarded Fall 2025 CIHR Project Grants.

Congratulations to all researchers! See the full list of award winners for February 2026 below.