The projects that were funded in the past year range from a variety of research areas including developing Indigenous approaches to wellness, establishing a medical education scholarly journal and studying how cholesterol works within our cells.
CIHR Grants
Spring Grant 2018
- Linda Chelico (Dept. of Biochemistry, Microbiology & Immunology) — Role of APOBEC3 deoxycytidine deaminases in somatic mutagenesis.
- Alexandra King (Department of Medicine) and Renee Masching — Peers4Wellness: Indigenous Approaches to Wellness Support and Research for Indigenous Women with HIV and HCV in British Columbia and Saskatchewan.
Fall Grant 2018
- Alexandra King (Department of Medicine) and Renee Masching — Decolonizing health and wellness interventions by creating, implementing and evaluating culturally responsive program components with Indigenous women living with HIV and Aging with Wisdom.
- Linda Chelico (Dept. of Biochemistry, Microbiology & Immunology) — The ongoing conflict between APOBEC3 Immune factors and HIV-1.
- Humphrey Fonge (Dept. of Medical Imaging) — Alpha particle-labled antibody-drug radioconjugates for radiotherapy of metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC).
- Malcolm King (Dept. of Community Health and Epidemiology) and Alexandra King (Department of Medicine) — Indigenous Knowledge Development Centres with a focus on Wellness – miyo-pimâtisiwin.
- Shahid Ahmed (Division of Oncology) — Conversion from unresectable to resectable liver metastases in patients with liver-only metastatic colorectal cancer treated with FLOLFOXIRI plus bevacizumab. The conversion trial.
- Kate Dadachova (College of Pharmacy and Nutrition) and Maruti Uppalapati (Dept. of Pathology & Lab Medicine) and — Developing radio immunotherapy of osteosarcoma using comparative oncology approach.
Catalyst Grant
- Darrell Mousseau and Gheorghita Adams (Dept. of Psychiatry) — Assessing the potential for using cannabidiol as a management option for anxiety in Alzheimer-dementia patients.
SSHRC
- Marcel D’Eon (Dept. of Community Health and Epidemiology) — received aid from SSHRC to develop the scholarly journal, Canadian Medical Education Journal.
NSERC
Discovery Grants
- Brian Eames (Dept. of Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology) — Evolution of skeletal cell transcriptomes.
- Scott Widenmaier (Dept. of Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology) — Systematic study of cellular cholesterol homeostasis.
- Yuliang Wu (Dept. of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology) — Understanding the role of KH domain in helicases.
- Wei Xiao (Dept. of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology) — Transcriptional regulation of the budding yeast DDI2gene in response to environmental stresses.
- Jim Xiang (Division of Oncology) — Simulated microgravity blocks osteoblastic differentiation and mineralization leading to bone loss via suppressing the FAK/RhoA-regulated Wnt pathway.
Discovery Launch Supplement grant
- Scott Widenmaier (Dept. of Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology) — Systematic study of cellular cholesterol homeostasis.
Congratulations to all of our College of Medicine researchers and we look forward to your future achievements.