The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has announced the results of its Fall 2023 project grant competition. Congratulations to all the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health members who were awarded project grants, with seven projects receiving more than $4 million in funding.
A total of 46 projects led by UBC researchers were awarded $31.3 million. Overall, the CIHR Fall 2023 competition approved 374 research grants, for a total investment of approximately $325 million.
Learn more about the projects that are being led by DMCBH researchers.
Project Grants:
- Ben Matthews: Dissecting the gustatory and mechanosensory basis of feeding and egg-laying behaviour in disease-vectoring mosquitoes
- Kota Mizumoto: Elucidating the novel role of Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) in presynaptic assembly
- Lynn Raymond: Investigating altered sensorimotor processing in Huntington disease
- Lakshmi Yatham and Kamyar Keramatian: Psilocybin Assisted Therapy (PAT) for Treatment Resistant Depression in Bipolar II Disorder (TRD.BD-II): A Randomized Controlled Trial
Priority Announcement Grants:
- Mahmoud Pouladi: Probing the Role of Claudin-11 Mutations in Hypomyelinating Leukodystrophy
- Teresa Liu-Ambrose: EPIC Health: Exercise in Perimenopause to Improve Cognitive Health
- Janice Eng: Implementation research to improve scale-up of the delivery of evidence-based community exercise programs for stroke
