CIHR Project Grant - 2024 Fall Competition

CIHR Project Grant - 2024 Fall Competition

Catalyst Grant: Development and Validation of New Biomedical Techniques and Technologies

Len Luyt PhD, (Depts. of Chemistry, and Oncology) $300,000 over 2 years for "Cyclic Peptide Nanotubes as a Platform Technology for Cancer Imaging Agents and Theranostics." Co-applicants include: Chris Pin PhD, Michael Kovacs PhD (Imaging), Ting Lee PhD. Collaborators include Glenn Bauman MD.

Project Grants:

Paula Foster PhD, (Depts. of Medical Biophysics and Oncology) – $677,025 over 5 years for “Developing Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) Lymphography.” Co-Applicant: Armen Parsyan MD.

John McCormick PhD, (Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology) - $1,155,150 over 5 years for “Staphylococcal superantigens at the commensal-pathogen interface.”

Caroline Schild-Poulter PhD, (Depts. of Biochemistry, and Oncology) – $100,000 for  “Investigating the molecular pathology of WDR26 deficiency”. Co-Applicant: Natalie Bérubé PhD.

Krishna Kumar Singh PhD, (Depts. of Anatomy & Cell Biology, and Medical Biophysics) - $100,000 for “Novel Mechanisms in Doxorubicin-induced Cardiomyopathy.” Co-Applicants include Alison Allan PhD.

Congratulations to the following members who were co-applicants on other successful grant applications: Michael Boffa PhD, Dan Lizotte PhD, and John Ronald PhD.