Another great year for CoMRAD funding
$870,000 in research funding awarded to faculty
By Marg SheridanThe annual College of Medicine Research Awards (CoMRAD) had another banner year – helping to fund an impressive 33 research projects.
Open to all faculty at the CoM, the awards help to provide seed-funding to new projects in the hopes of facilitating future applications for external funding opportunities. Thanks to generous endowments in addition to College funds, the OVDR was to fund the selected projects at a total of $870,000 – $120,000 over the 2017-2018 projected budget.
“CoMRAD was designed to help our faculty to be competitive in provincial and national grant competitions,” explained Dr. Marek Radomski, the vice-dean of research. “To date, we have funded 61 faculty with close to 1.5 million dollars. I am looking forward to learning about our research successes.”
Another highlight from the project this year was that early career faculty had a success rate of 85 per cent, which is reflective not only of the impressive breadth of research being undertaken across-the-board at the College, but supportive of one of the main focuses of the CoMRAD’s – supporting early career faculty in the growth of their research.
A total of 47 applications were received by the committee, which were then ranked by 35 adjudicators on five separate committees.
All 2016 recipients will be celebrated at the first ever CoMRAD Symposium this coming November.
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Principal Investigator |
Department |
Project Name |
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Shahid Ahmed |
Oncology / Radiology |
Role of individualized intervention(s) on quality of life and adherence to adjuvant endocrine therapy in premenopausal women with early-stage breast cancer: MyChoice |
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Terra Arnason |
Department of Medicine |
Longitudinal microarchitectural changes of bone in hyperthyroid patients |
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Lloyd Balbuena |
Psychiatry |
Is smoking a suicide prevention target? |
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Brenna Bath |
Physical Therapy |
Informing development of an interprofessional northern spine clinic |
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Lane Bekar |
Pharmacology |
Modeling late-onset neurodegeneration in wild-type mice using common lifestyle stressors |
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Francisco Cayabyab |
Surgery |
Therapeutic potential of low-field magnetic stimulation in stroke |
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Linda Chelico |
Microbiology & Immunology |
Role of APOBEC3 deoxycytidine deaminases in somatic mutagenesis |
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Kash Desai |
Pharmacology |
Can arginine be developed as a clinically useful preventive against methylglyoxal-induced pathology? |
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Humphrey Fonge |
Medical Imaging |
Multi-functional anti-EGFR immunoconjugate as a theranostic |
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Jonathan Gamble |
Anesthesiology |
Do infusion pumps prevent the over-administration of intravenous fluid in pediatric dental surgeries? |
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John Gordon |
Department of Medicine |
Regulatory dendritic cell therapy for multiple sclerosis |
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Lori Hanson |
Community Health and Epidemiology |
Consolidating perspectives on the nature of Saskatoon's evolving opioid crisis |
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Troy Harkness |
Anatomy & Cell Biology |
Anaphase promoting complex activity plays a vital anticancer function for cells and organisms |
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Richard Huntsman |
Pediatrics |
The prevalence of prenatal exposure to Cannabis: A proof of principle study |
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Kerri Kobryn |
Microbiology & Immunology |
Role of the helicase activity of B. burgdorferi's telomere resolvase |
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Lixin Liu |
Pharmacology |
The role of LSP1 in endothelium-dependent regulation of arterial vascular tone and systemic blood pressure |
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Erique Lukong |
Biochemistry |
Role of BRK in tamoxifen-resistant breast cancers |
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Yigang Luo |
Surgery |
Normothermic kidney preservation for transplantation |
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Steven Machtaler |
Medical Imaging |
Molecular imaging of inflammatory bowel disease with MRI: Modifying microbubbles to be a MR-compatible vascular contrast agent |
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Darrell Mousseau |
Psychiatry |
Using pH-sensitive probes to monitor flipping behaviour of the mitochondrial MAO protein |
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Haron Obaid |
Medical Imaging |
Development and evaluation of a robotic ultrasound imaging system for musculoskeletal imaging to increase access to care for rural and remote populations |
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Lissa Peeling |
Surgery |
Clot analyses in acute ischemic stroke |
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Shaquil Peermohamed |
Department of Medicine |
Impact of a novel, antimicrobial stewardship mobile application on antimicrobial usage in Saskatoon Health Region |
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Bhanu Prasad |
Department of Medicine |
Prairie loin pain hematuria study: Renal denervation for management of patients with loin pain hematuria syndrome |
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Alan Rosenberg |
Pediatrics |
DNA-collagen interactions: Towards elucidating Lupus pathogenesis |
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Anurag Saxena |
Pathology and Lab Medicine |
Improving learning culture in surgical programs in Saskatchewan |
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Changiz Taghibiglou |
Pharmacology |
Cellular prion protein (PrPC)-dependent brain insulin resistance: A missing molecular link between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and neurodegenerative diseases |
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Brent Thoma |
Emergency Medicine |
Comparing multi-source competency-based assessments in a simulation-based resuscitation skills training program |
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Susara van der Spuy |
Physical Therapy |
Improving function of deconditioned older adults: Sit-to-stand training |
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Franco Vizeacoumar |
Oncology / Radiology |
Overcoming therapeutic drug resistance in human breast cancer |
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Yuliang Wu |
Biochemistry |
KH Domain: Its Role in Helicases and as a Potential Target for Breast Cancer |
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Yanbo Zhang |
Psychiatry |
Double-blind proof-of-concept trial of intermittent theta burst low field magnetic stimulation augmentation of antidepressant therapy in treatment-resistant depression |
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Audrey Zucker-Levin |
Physical Therapy |
Neuroplasticity and function in amputees |