Congratulations to our CIHR award winners!

In the Fall 2023 Project Grant competition of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), researchers from McMaster Faculty of Health Sciences were awarded almost $14 million. Among the awardees were several Principal Investigators and Associate Members of the CDCR, including Professors Karen Mossman, Amy Gillgrass, Jonathan Bramson, and Hong Han.

Congratulations to the awardees!

Here are the list of projects:

Elucidating the molecular mechanism by which bat IRFs modulate antiviral responses ($937,125)
Karen Mossman, Department of Medicine

Investigating the mechanisms of disease progression in HIV/TB co-infection to design interventions for better clinical outcomes ($300,000)
Amy Gillgrass, Department of Medicine

Humoral and cellular immune responses to COVID-19 vaccination and infection in older adults. ($100,000)
Dawn Bowdish, Ishac Nazy, Jonathan Bramson, and Jessica Breznik Department of Medicine; Matthew Miller, Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences

Systematic single-cell characterization of coordinated RNA regulatory mechanisms underlying glioblastoma progression ($100,000)
Hong Han, Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences

Visit the CIHR website to learn more about the Project Grant program.