The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has announced the results of its Spring 2022 project grant competition. Congratulations to all the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health members who were awarded project grants, with 11 projects receiving more than $9 million in funding.
Overall, UBC researchers are leading 47 projects that have been awarded $38.3 million in funding. Read the full UBC announcement.
Learn more about the projects that are being led by DMCBH researchers:
- Gamifying neuro rehabilitation: Can we predict who will benefit?
Principal Investigator: Lara Boyd - A specialized neural circuit representing novelty on behavioural timescales
Principal Investigator: Mark Cembrowski - Targeting synaptic organizers in neuropsychiatric disorders
Principal Investigator: Ann Marie Craig - Pax6 regulation of glutamatergic lineages in cerebellar development
Principal Investigators: Daniel Goldowitz and Paul Pavlidis - Lipid Nanoparticle-Mediated Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing for Neurological Disorders
Principal Investigator: Blair Leavitt - Traumatic brain injury and cerebral small vessel disease in a vulnerably housed cohort, a prelude to early neurodegeneration and dementia
Principal Investigators: William Panenka, Thalia Field, Allen Thornton and Cheryl Wellington - Targeting inflammatory and neurodegenerative pathways relevant to progression in the NR1H3 (LXRA) R415Q model of primary progressive multiple sclerosis
Principal Investigator: Jacqueline Quandt - Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping from Clinical Phase Data
Principal Investigator: Alexander Rauscher - An evaluation of the health, criminal justice, and service use outcomes of the Ministry of Health assuming responsibility for prison health care services in BC (PRISM-BC)
Principal Investigator: Amanda Slaunwhite, Tonia Nicholls and Christian Schütz - Structural and functional investigation of Junctophilins in health and disease
Principal Investigator: Filip Van Petegem - Regulatory mechanisms of voltage-gated calcium channels
Principal Investigator: Filip Van Petegem
