Congratulations to our CIHR award winners!
In the Spring 2023 Project Grant competition of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), researchers from McMaster Faculty of Health Sciences were awarded almost $20 million. Among the awardees were several Principal Investigators and Associate Members of the CDCR, including Professors Jonathan Bramson, Sheila Singh, Jenna Smith-Turchyn, and Sam Sadeghi (who received the two awards!).
Congratulations to the awardees!
Here are the list of projects:
The TACtful Trial: A first-in-human multi-centre trial of BCMA specific T-cell antigen coupler infusion, generated from cryopreserved G-CSF-mobilized peripheral blood, in patients with relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma ($3,056,176)
Jonathan Bramson, Department of Medicine; Hira Mian, Amaris Balitsky and Courtney Coschi, Department of Oncology
Therapeutic targeting of Purine metabolism in Brain metastases ($680,851)
Sheila Singh, Department of Surgery
Determining the most effective way to assess, prevent, and manage upper extremity impairment in breast cancer survivors: development and usability of the “StrongArms-Cancer” system ($164,476)
Jenna Smith-Turchyn, Julie Richardson and Tara Packham, School of Rehabilitation Science; Som Mukherjee, Department of Oncology; Christopher Anand, Faculty of Engineering
ProNGF and Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration in Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease ($1,239,300)
Margaret Fahnestock, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences; Sam Sadeghi, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (Faculty of Science)
Exploring the role of extravascular factor IX in hemostasis in hemophilia B ($680,850)
Davide Matino, Colin Kretz, Peter Gross and Alfonso Iorio, Department of Medicine; Sam Sadeghi, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology