UBC awarded $2.4 million through Collaborative Health Research Projects program

Six projects led by UBC researchers are among the 29 supported by Collaborative Health Research Projects program. 

Today, Friday August 9, 2019, the Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Tourism, Official Languages and La Francophonie, announced an investment of almost $25m in a range of health research projects that leverage the latest in technology to improve patient diagnosis, treatment, and quality of life.

The projects were funded under the Collaborative Health Research Projects (CHRP) program, which brings together diverse teams of health researchers, engineers and those in the natural sciences, and social scientists and humanities scholars, to tackle health challenges. The investment comes from the country’s three federal granting councils – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

UBC-led projects

Six of the 29 funded projects, receiving a combined total of $2.4m, are led or co-led by UBC researchers:

• Therapeutic Use of Micro-Sponge Embedded Nutritional Liquid Scaffold for Treatment of Non-Healing Wounds
  UBC researchers:
  • Aziz Ghahary (Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine)
  • Frank K Ko (Materials Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science)
     
• Deformability based Cell Sorting Enabling Quality Control of Stored Red Blood Cells
  UBC researchers:
  • Hongshen Ma (Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science)
  • Mark D Scott (Centre for Blood Research, Faculty of Medicine)
     
• Confidential Automatic Monitoring, Examination, and Recognition of disease Activity (CAMERA): Application to Parkinson and Alzheimer Diseases
  ​UBC researchers:
  • Martin J McKeown (Division of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine)
  • Jane Z. Wang (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science)
     
• Super-resolution microscopy network analysis: Drug target validation for cystic fibrosis
  ​UBC researchers:
  • Ivan R. Nabi (Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine) 
     
• Bioprocess Engineering for Therapeutic T-cell Manufacturing
  ​UBC researchers:
  • James M Piret (Chemical and Biological Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science)
  • Bhushan Gopaluni (Chemical and Biological Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science)
  • Megan K Levings (Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine)
     
• Intraoperative Surgical Tools for Advanced Reconstruction Workflow to Optimize Outcomes of Head and Neck Cancer Treatment -
  UBC researchers:
  • Eitan Prisman (Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine)
  • James S. Durham (Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine)
  • Sidney S Fels (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Applied Science)
  • Anthony J Hodgson (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science)

Find out more about the program and the supported projects by viewing the CIHR media release.
 

Read the CIHR release