Congratulations to the following Department of Medicine faculty members recently awarded grants from CIHR!
A full list of results, as well as a break down of the compeition, can be found on CIHR's website.
2017 Foundation Grants
Robert Chen, University Health Network Cortical and basal ganglia mechanisms in movement disorders
John Dick, University Health Network Identification and Characterization of Human Hematopoietic and Leukemia Stem Cells and Elucidation of their Role in Regenerative Medicine and Disease
Daniel Drucker, Sinai Health Systems Mechanisms of peptide hormone action: metabolic and therapeutic implications
Andrea Gershon, Sunnybrook Research Institute Canadian Best Respiratory Research Evaluation and Analyst Team of Health Experts (CanBREATHE)
Dennis Ko, Sunnybrook Research Institute Improving Transition of Care and Outcomes of Cardiovascular Disease Using an Innovative Big Data Approach
Mona Loutfy, Women's College Hospital The Women and HIV Research Program: Impactful Research with Diverse Women Living with and at Risk of HIV in Canada
Steven Narod, Women's College Hospital Clinical evaluative studies in hereditary breast and ovarian cancer
Aaron Schimmer, University Health Network Developing new therapeutic strategies for AML (Acute Myeloid Leukemia)
Sharon Straus, St. Michael's Hosptial Sustaining evidence-based chronic disease management
Operating Grant: Innovative Biomedical and Clinical HIV/AIDS Research
Mario Ostrowski, University of Toronto Developing a Novel Modular Nanoparticle Vaccine Strategy to Induce Durable Systemic and Mucosal HIV Envelope Specific Antibodies
