UBC researchers have received an investment of nearly $2.4 million for six collaborative health research projects. Their projects leverage the latest in technology to improve patient diagnosis, treatment and quality of life.
Projects involving multiple researchers from UBC’s faculties of medicine and applied science have been funded, highlighting the strength of the newly founded school of biomedical engineering. The Government of Canada’s Collaborative Health Research Projects (CHRP) program provides the funding, which enables diverse teams of health researchers, engineers and those in the natural sciences, and social scientists and humanities scholars to tackle health challenges. The six projects are among 29 initiatives receiving a total of nearly $25 million.
Canada is lucky to be home to some of the world’s most innovative thinkers in the health and natural sciences, engineering, and the social sciences.
Minister of Health Ginette Petitpas Taylor
“Canada is lucky to be home to some of the world’s most innovative thinkers in the health and natural sciences, engineering, and the social sciences,” said Minister of Health Ginette Petitpas Taylor in a release. “The Government of Canada is proud to be able to support your work as you push the boundaries of technology in the pursuit of improved health for us all.”
UBC-led projects
Therapeutic use of micro-sponge embedded nutritional liquid scaffold for treatment of non-healing wounds
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Ivan R. Nabi (Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine)
Bioprocess engineering for therapeutic T-cell manufacturing
- 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
- Eitan Prisman (Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine)
- James S. Durham (Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine)
- Sidney S. Fels (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science)
- Anthony J. Hodgson (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science)
Find out more about the program by viewing the CIHR media release.
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.