CIHR Fall Grant Competition 2022 Project Grant Recipients – Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba

Congratulations to the CHRIM investigators and their teams who were awarded over $5,400,000 in funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research CIHR) Project Grant Fall 2022 competition!

Many other CHRIM members were also successful in this year’s competition both as co-investigators on projects and through project bridge funding.

Here are the recipients and their projects:

**Roberta Woodgate, RN, PhD**
Co-authored by CHRIM Investigators Drs. Mandy Archibald, Marni Brownell, Andrew Hatala, and Depeng Jiang
*Understanding the Impacts of COVID-19 on the Mental Health and Well-being of Canadian Youth Coming of Age in COVID Times* ($776,475). *Partnering for youth mental health and well-being: Co-Designing policy recommendations and research priorities for Manitoba youth hubs. Funding: $100,000.00, 2023-24.* **This grant is ranked #1 in the competition**

**Soheila Karimi-Abdolrezaee, PhD, MSc, BSc**
*Evaluating novel approaches to promote neuroregeneration and functional recovery after spinal cord injury* ($1,136,025)

**Andrew Hatala, PhD**
*Connecting with cultural heritage: Land-based learning and healing through archaeology in northern Manitoba* ($1,438,199)

**Mojgan Rastegar, PhD, DEA, MSc, BSc**
*Investigating the molecular and cellular abnormalities of the brain in Rett Syndrome* ($990,675)

**Carla Taylor, PhD, PhD, BH Ecol.**
Co-authored by CHRIM Investigator Dr. Harold Aukema
*Sex-specific targeting of fish oil as a therapeutic approach for decreasing cardiovascular disease* ($1,077,120)

**Jeffrey Wigle, PhD**
Co-authored by CHRIM Investigator, Jeffrey Wigle, PhD
*Novel regulators of dermal wound healing* ($1,040,400), Principal Investigator, Dr. Ian Michael Dixon

Bridge Funding

**Chris Pascoe**, **PhD**
Co-authored by CHRIM Investigators Drs. Shyamala Dakshinamurti, Brad Doble, Andrew Halayko, Adrian West, Vern Dolinsky
*Impact of maternal hyperglycemia on offspring airway smooth muscle contractility and the activity of RhoA.*($100,000)

Priority Grants

Jason Kindrachuk, PhD
Characterization of monkeypox virus circulation and transmission from wildlife to humans in Africa and identification of wildlife species at elevated risk for infection in Canada ($750,000) Co-authored by CHRIM Investigator Dr. Lyle McKinnon)
Preclinical Models for Monkeypox Virus Infection and Therapeutic Development ($100,000)

**Roberta Woodgate, PhD**
Co-authored by CHRIM Investigators Drs. Mandy Archibald and Andrew Hatala
*Connections Matter: Fostering social connectedness in youth to optimize mental health and well-being* ($100,000)

**Neeloffer Mookherjee PhD**
*Sex as a biological variable in the development of inflammatory arthritis* ($100,000)

Marni Brownell PhD
*Longitudinal study of mental disorders in children with special health needs in three Canadian provinces* ($100,000)

The full list of projects that received funding can be found here.