The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) recently announced a total national investment of $411 million through the CIHR Spring 2025 Project Grant competition, funding 444 grants led by 428 lead investigators. At McGill, 53 projects were funded for a total research investment of $48.4 million.
“These projects span disciplines and regions, united by a shared goal: improving the health, prosperity and well-being of all people in Canada”, said Paul C. Hébert, President, CIHR.
The CIHR Project Grant program, held twice a year, funds health-related research projects across Canada with strong potential to advance knowledge, improve health outcomes, and impact health systems or care. The competition is open to all health researchers at any career stage, supporting a wide range of project types from discovery to application.
Congratulations to McGill’s researchers on their successful grants!
Click here to view the list of the 53 funded McGill projects
Click here to read the CIHR announcement
The SBMS researchers have achieved remarkable success by securing over $13 million in research funding for their outstanding projects. Among these, the Centre de Recherche en Biologie Structurale (CRBS) stands out with an impressive nine five-year Project Grants awarded, involving seven faculty members from the SBMS departments.
Congratulations to all our researchers and their dedicated teams!
Below is the complete list of successful CIHR funding grants awarded to the SBMS researchers.
Chantal Autexier, Anatomy and Cell Biology
- Project: Mechanisms regulating telomerase biogenesis and function at telomeres
Maurice Chacron, Physiology
- Project: Processing of vestibular and non-vestibular cues resulting from natural self-motion by vestibular cortical neurons: implications for perception and behavior
David Juncker (co-PI, collaborative), Biomedical Engineering
- Project: Single extracellular vesicle analysis for colorectal cancer liver metastasis typing and monitoring
Jacquetta Trasler (co-PI, collaborative), Human Genetics, Pharmacology & Therapeutics
- Project: Paternal Age and the Risks of Adverse Perinatal, Neurodevelopmental and Epigenetic Outcomes in Children
Leo Liu, Microbiology and Immunology
- Project: Regulation of ISG15-mediated innate immunity by coronaviral papain-like proteases
Judith Mandl, Physiology
- Project: The mechano-regulation of naive T cell survival: consequences for aging and autoimmunity
Bhushan Nagar, Biochemistry, CRBS
- Project: Understanding the role of innate immune proteins in viral infection
Joaquin Ortega, Anatomy and Cell Biology, CRBS and Wayne Sossin, Anatomy and Cell Biology
- Project: Molecular Mechanism of Translational Stalling in Specialized Neuronal Ribosomes
Martin Schmeing, Biochemistry, CRBS
- Project: Biosynthesis by hybrid megaenzyme systems
Nahum Sonenberg, Biochemistry, CRBS
- Project: mRNA Translational Repression by GIGYF Proteins and Their Partners
Natalie Zeytuni, Anatomy and Cell Biology, CRBS
- Project: Orchestrating Biofilms: Molecular Insights into P. gingivalis Fimbriae and Periodontal Pathogenesis
Bastien Castagner, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, CRBS
- Project: Inositol Phosphates Analogs to Disarm the Intestinal Pathogen Clostridioides difficile
Gergely Lukacs, Physiology, CRBS
- Project: Advancing Therapeutic Strategies to Enhance Anion Secretion in Cystic Fibrosis with CFTR Mutations that are Ineligible or Poorly Responsive to Modulators
