2025 Fall Project Grant Results

Congratulations to the CHRIM investigators and their teams, who were awarded nearly $4 million in funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant Fall 2025 Competition!


Project Grants

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Robert Beattie, PhD
University of Manitoba, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics

Principles of mTORC1 regulation of cortical development and neuronal survival in neurodevelopment

Funding amount: $1,044,225
Term: 5 years

Elizabeth Sellers, MD, MSc
University of Manitoba, Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health

Brandy Wicklow, MD, MSc, FRCPC
University of Manitoba, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health

Co-designing enhanced models of care for First Nations Children at risk for childhood-onset type 2 diabetes: The Next Generation Birth Cohort.

Funding amount: $1,484,100
Term: 5 years

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Shyamala Dakshinamurti, MD, MSc
University of Manitoba, Professor, Department of Pediatrics & Child Health

Regulation of Pulmonary Arterial Relaxation by Nitrosylation in Hypoxic Pulmonary Hypertension

Funding amount: $994,500
Term: 5 years

Priority Project Grants

Nathan Nickel, MPH, PhD
University of Manitoba, Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences

Indigenizing Epidemiology: Examining the Impact of Canada’s First Indigenous-Led Safer Consumption Site in Winnipeg, Manitoba

Funding amount: $100,000
Term: 1 year

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Roberta Woodgate, PhD
University of Manitoba, Distinguished Professor, College of Nursing

Responsible Artificial Intelligence for Young People’s Mental Health: A Co-Creation Approach to Public Health Education

Funding amount: $157,000
Term: 1 year


Congratulations to all CHRIM members who received funding as principal investigators as well as those who received funding as co-investigators on a variety of projects!