The Department of Medicine had the highest share of awards within the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (31.6%) and submitted the most applications within the FMHS (accounting for 26% of all applications). In this round, the Department of Medicine garnered over $10 million in CIHR funding, representing 25% of McGill’s total CIHR funding for Spring 2024 (how’s that for a research intensive DOM!).
Congratulations to the following McGill Department of Medicine project grant awardees for their successful CIHR applications!
Dr. Sasha Bernatsky - Environmental factors and risk of autoimmune rheumatic disease incidence and serology
Dr. Yen-I Chen - Prophylactic EUS-guided gastroenterostomy in advanced periampullary cancers: A multicenter randomized controlled trial (INTERCEPT study)
Dr. Maziar Divangahi - Programming Innate Memory Responses to promote host defense against SARS-CoV-2 Pneumonia
Dr. Jonathon Campbell - Risk Assessment and Determinants of Tuberculosis Associated Respiratory Impairment and Disability (RADAR-TB): A Systematic Review and Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis
Dr. Jacqueline Joza - LEFT HF: LEFT Bundle Pacing vs Standard Right Ventricular Pacing for Heart Failure
Dr. Nadine Kronfli - Enhancing uptake of needle and syringe programs in Canadian federal prisons
Dr. Todd Lee - Clopidogrel vs. Aspirin in S. aureus Bacteremia (Clopido-SNAP)
Dr. Emily McDonald - Dabigatran for the adjunctive treatment of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: the DABI-SNAP nested randomized controlled trial
Dr. Jean-Pierre Routy - ACBP as a target for immunometabolic reprogramming in people living with HIV
Dr. Atul Verma - Strategies for catheter ablation of persistent atrial fibrillation: a randomized comparative study (STAR AF 3)
Dr. Michael Goldfarb - Increasing family engagement in critical care: The NGAGE Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial