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Awards and recognition

Four MSL faculty receive project funding through Spring 2024 CIHR Grants

Top: Dr. Peter Zandstra (left), Dr. Harry Brumer (right).
Bottom: Dr. Leonard Foster (left), Dr. Wilfred Jefferies (right).

Four of our MSL faculty members are involved in projects recently funded through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant: Spring 2024 competition. These newly funded projects, with grants totaling over $2.2 million, will focus on medical research to improve disease modeling, prevention, and treatment.

This funding competition awarded approximately $325 million across Canada in research grants, and an additional $7.6 million in priority announcement grants. At UBC, 39 research projects received a total of $32.9 million in project grants, and 13 projects received priority announcement grants totaling $1.3 million.

 

Project Grants:

Gastruloid Engineering: Precision Organoid Design for Developmental and Disease Modeling
Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Peter Zandstra (Michael Smith Laboratories, School of Biomedical Engineering)
$1,208,700  (5 yr)

Bespoke plant glycoconjugates to improve Inflammatory Bowel Disease treatment through gut-microbiota-mediated drug targeting
Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Laura Sly (Pediatrics), Dr. Harry Brumer (Michael Smith Laboratories, Chemistry)
$879,750  (5 yr)

 

Priority Announcements:

Development and Commercialization of a Safe and Effective Mpox Subunit Vaccine with Global Impact
Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Leonard Foster (Michael Smith Laboratories, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Co-investigator(s): Dr. Wilfred Jefferies (Michael Smith Laboratories, Medical Genetics, Microbiology and Immunology)
Priority Announcement Area: Pandemic Preparedness and Health Emergencies Research
$100,000  (1 yr)

Structural and functional characterization of the type VII secretion system in Mycobacteria
Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Elitza Tocheva (Microbiology and Immunology)
Co-investigator(s): Dr. Leonard Foster (Michael Smith Laboratories, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) 
Priority Announcement Area: Antimicrobial Resistance (Bridge Grant)
$100,000 (1 yr)

 

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