ATM ECR Congratulations

Please join us in congratulating the following ATM-associated Early Career Researchers (ECRs) for some of their many recent 2023 awards and achievements!

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Urology Care Foundation 2022 Rising Stars in Urology Research Award

Dr. Ryan Flannigan

• • • The program encourages recipients to contribute to urology as both surgical specialists and scientists investigating causes, prevention, treatment, and cures that will improve patients’ lives.

 

2023 UBC Department of Medicine Faculty & Staff Awards

Dr. Zackary Lacksman

• • • Award: St. Paul’s Hospital Faculty Research Award
    • In recognition of outstanding research and scholarly contributions.

 

Health Research BC 2022 Health Professional-Investigator (HP-I) Award

Dr. Khaled Abdelrahman

• • • Project: The contribution of metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGluR5) to impaired control of brain blood flow in Alzheimer’s disease

Dr. Emily Brigham

• • • Project: FIRE-Diet: food as an intervention to reduce effects of woodsmoke exposure on respiratory health

Dr. Yvette Drew

• • • Project: Investigating novel, non-chemotherapy, targeted treatment strategies in high grade serous ovarian cancer

 

New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) Grant

Dr. Anna Blakney

• • • Project: A pipeline approach for the rational design of neuronal lineage conversion approaches to treat neurological disorders

 

CIHR Spring 2023 Project Grant Competition

Dr. Anna Blakney

• • • Project: Engineering next-generation self-amplifying RNA therapeutics encoding bispecific T cell engager (BiTE) antibodies for treatment of ovarian cancer | $795,600
    • Project: Development and evaluation of novel nanoparticle formulations for therapeutic genome editing | $975,376

Dr. Emily Brigham

• • • Project: FIRE-Diet: Food as an Intervention to Reduce the Effects of Woodsmoke Exposure on Respiratory Health | $921,826

Dr. Laura Evgin

• • • Project: Leveraging TCR reactivity to improve CAR T therapy | $745,876
    • Project (co-investigator): Development of LNP/mRNA systems for direct transfection and generation of functional Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cells in-vivo for treatment of blood and other cancer cell types | $856,800

Dr. Ramon Klein Geltink

• • • Project: Glucose restriction-mediated changes to mitochondria as a driver of anti-tumour CD8+ T cell function | $983,026

Dr. Jonathan Loree

• • • Project: STOPNET – A Randomized Study of Cessation of Somatostatin Analogues after Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy in Mid and Hind Gut Neuroendocrine Tumours | $260,101

 

Other CIHR 2023 Funding

Dr. Emily Brigham

• • • Catalyst Grant: CPHO Report – General Pool
    • Project (co-investigator): Air pollution and Asthma in Canada: Projections of burden and the value of climate adaptation strategies | $124,796

Dr. Anna Blakney

• • • Planning and Dissemination Grant – Institute Community Support
    • Project (co-investigator): 24th RiboClub Annual Meeting | $10,000

Dr. Devon Greyson

• • • Team Grant: Mpox and zoonotic threats – Intersection of mpox and STBBI
    • Project: Pre-exposure mpox vaccination campaigns aimed at GBTMSM+ and sex work communities: What worked in 2022 and what can we learn to strengthen future targeted vaccination campaigns to stigmatized communities in infodemic times? | $499,670

Dr. Veena Sriram

• • • Planning and Dissemination Grant – Institute Community Support
    • Project: Fostering a research collaboration on new global trends in violence against health workers | $20,000

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