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Awards and recognition

Three MSL faculty leading projects funded through Fall 2025 CIHR Grant competition

Three of our MSL faculty members are leading projects recently awarded grants through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant: Fall 2025 competition. These projects, receiving a combined total of over $2.9 million, will move forward important research across a diverse span of health areas.

Across Canada, a total of approximately $413 million was invested through project grants, as well as $9.7 million in priority announcement grants, and $450,000 in supplemental prizes. UBC researchers received a combined total of $35.1 million in grants across 47 research projects.

From top to bottom: Drs. Anna Blakney, Paul Pavlidis and Nobuhiko Tokuriki

Project Grants:

Engineering Longer-Lasting RNA Therapeutics for Treatment of Blood Disorders 

Principal Investigator: Dr. Anna Blakney (MSL, School of Biomedical Engineering)

$879,750 (5 years)

 

Large-scale multimodal genomics meta-analysis to gain insight into brain gene regulation

Principal Investigator: Dr. Paul Pavlidis (MSL, Psychiatry)

$952,425 (5 years)

 

Molecular and Evolutionary Mechanisms of Carbapenemases in Class A beta-Lactamase Family

Principal Investigator: Dr. Nobuhiko Tokuriki (MSL, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)

$1,071,000 (5 years)

 

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