November 25, 2021
The Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Health, today announced a joint investment of $20 million to support new diabetes research teams across Canada.
The Government of Canada is providing $14 million of the funding announced today through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). The additional $6 million is provided by JDRF Canada, Diabetes Canada, The Kidney Foundation of Canada, and Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé. This investment is part of CIHR’s 100 Years of Insulin: Accelerating Canadian Discoveries to Defeat Diabetes initiative.
These teams will work to develop new approaches to preventing, treating, and caring for Canadians living with diabetes. Researchers will also work with patient partners—people with lived experience of diabetes—to ensure that the research being conducted is relevant and valuable to the people that it affects most.
Researchers at UBC and affiliated health research institutes are involved in seven of the 17 funded teams.
Additionally, UBC Associate Professor Dr. Francis Lynn has been awarded the Diabetes Canada Early Career Researcher Partnership Prize.
FUnded Teams with UBC Members
- Generation of a functionally robust stem cell-based therapy for type 1 diabetes
- Dr. Francis Lynn (Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute)
- Dr. Megan Levings (Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute)
- Dr. Bruce Verchere (Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute)
- Dr. Jenny Bruin (Assistant Professor, Carleton University)
- Dr. Pat MacDonald (Professor, University of Alberta)
- Dr. Jim Johnson (Professor, University of British Columbia)
- Dr. Wyeth Wasserman (Vice-President of Research, BC Children’s Hospital)
- Mobile Health Biometrics to Enhance Exercise and Physical Activity Adherence in T2D
- Alison McManus (Canadian NPI: University of British Columbia)
- Matthew Cocks (UK NPI: Liverpool John Moores University)
- Bridging the gap to translation by understanding and preventing diabetic vascular complications using human organoid culture
- Josef Penninger (Canadian NPI: University of British Columbia)
- David Andrew Long (UK NPI: University College London)
- A deep phenotyping network for understanding human islet variation in health and diabetes
- Dr. Patrick MacDonald, Nominated Principal Investigator: Canada Research Chair; University of Alberta
- Dr. James D. Johnson, Principal Investigator: University of British Columbia
- Dr. Jennifer Bruin, Principal Investigator: Carleton University
- Dr. Jianguo (Jeff) Xia, Principal Investigator: McGill University
- Immunometabolism in diabetes: harnessing metabolic crosstalk between islets and immune cells for therapy
- Dr. Bruce Verchere, Nominated Principal Investigator: University of British Columbia
- Dr. Ramon Klein Geltink, Principal Investigator: University of British Columbia; BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute
- Dr. Megan Levings, Principal Investigator: University of British Columbia; BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute
- Dr. Pere Santamaria, Principal Investigator: University of Calgary
- Dr. Sue Tsai, Principal Investigator: University of Alberta
- Building CAPACIty for pediatric diabetes research and quality improvement across Canada
- Dr. Shazhan Amed, Nominated Principal Investigator: B.C Children's Hospital
- Dr. Meranda Nakhla, Principal Investigator: Montreal Children’s Hospital; McGill University
- Dr. Julia von Oettingen, Principal Investigator: Montreal Children’s Hospital; McGill University
- Dr. Ian Zenlea, Principal Investigator: Trillium Health Partners; University of Toronto
- The developmental origins of pediatric type 2 diabetes and early renal dysfunction
- Dr. Brandy Wicklow, Nominated Principal Investigator: University of Manitoba; Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba
- Dr. Meaghan Jones, Principal Investigator: University of Manitoba; Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba
- Dr. Allison Dart, Principal Investigator: University of Manitoba; Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba
- Dr. Francis Lynn, Principal Investigator: University of British Columbia; BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute
- Dr. Christine Doucette, Principal Investigator: Max Rady College of Medicine; Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba