The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) recently announced a total national investment of $411 million through the CIHR Spring 2025 Project Grant competition, funding 444 grants led by 428 lead investigators. At 9I制作厂免费, 53 projects were funded for a total research investment of $48.4 million.听
鈥淭hese projects span disciplines and regions, united by a shared goal: improving the health, prosperity and well-being of all people in Canada鈥�, said Paul C. H茅bert, President, CIHR. 听
The CIHR Project Grant program, held twice a year, funds health-related research projects across Canada with strong potential to advance knowledge, improve health outcomes, and impact health systems or care. The competition is open to all health researchers at any career stage, supporting a wide range of project types from discovery to application.听
Congratulations to 9I制作厂免费鈥檚 researchers on their successful grants!听
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The SBMS researchers have achieved remarkable success by securing over $13 million in research funding for their outstanding projects. Among these, the Centre de Recherche en Biologie Structurale (CRBS) stands out with an impressive nine five-year Project Grants awarded, involving seven faculty members from the SBMS departments.
Congratulations to all our researchers and their dedicated teams!
Below is the complete list of successful CIHR funding grants awarded to the SBMS researchers.
Chantal Autexier,听Anatomy and Cell Biology
Project: Mechanisms regulating telomerase biogenesis and function at telomeres
Maurice Chacron, Physiology
Project:听Processing of vestibular and non-vestibular cues resulting from natural self-motion by vestibular cortical neurons: implications for perception and behavior
David Juncker听(co-PI, collaborative), Biomedical Engineering
Project:听Single extracellular vesicle analysis for colorectal cancer liver metastasis typing and monitoring
Jacquetta听Single (co-PI, collaborative), Human Genetics, Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Project:听Paternal Age and the Risks of Adverse Perinatal, Neurodevelopmental and Epigenetic Outcomes in Children
Leo Liu, Microbiology and Immunology
Project:听Regulation of ISG15-mediated innate immunity by coronaviral papain-like proteases
Judith Mandl, Physiology
Project:听The mechano-regulation of naive T cell survival: consequences for aging and autoimmunity
Bhushan Nagar, Biochemistry, CRBS
Project:听Understanding the role of innate immune proteins in viral infection
Joaquin Ortega, Anatomy and Cell Biology, CRBS听and Wayne Sossin,听Anatomy and Cell Biology
Project:听Molecular Mechanism of Translational Stalling in Specialized Neuronal Ribosomes
Martin Schmeing,听Biochemistry, CRBS
Project:听Biosynthesis by hybrid megaenzyme systems
Nahum Sonenberg,听Biochemistry, CRBS
Project:听mRNA Translational Repression by GIGYF Proteins and Their Partners
Natalie Zeytuni,听Anatomy and Cell Biology, CRBS听
Project:听Orchestrating Biofilms: Molecular Insights into P. gingivalis Fimbriae and Periodontal Pathogenesis
Bastien Gastagner, Pharmacology & Therapeutics,听CRBS
Project:听Inositol Phosphates Analogs to Disarm the Intestinal Pathogen Clostridioides difficile
Gergely Lukacs, Physiology, CRBS
Project:听Advancing Therapeutic Strategies to Enhance Anion Secretion in Cystic Fibrosis with CFTR Mutations that are Ineligible or Poorly Responsive to Modulators
