{"id":310883,"date":"2026-07-31T17:11:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310883\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T17:11:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:11:39","slug":"12-7-million-awarded-to-queens-researchers-to-advance-cancer-heart-disease-and-health-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310883\/","title":{"rendered":"$12.7 million awarded to Queen\u2019s researchers to advance cancer, heart disease, and health research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen research teams at Queen\u2019s University have received a combined $12.7 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Canada\u2019s largest funder of health research.<\/p>\n<p>Awarded through CIHR&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/cihr-irsc.gc.ca\/e\/54787.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Project Grant: Spring 2026 competition<\/a>, each project will work towards advancing the health and wellbeing of Canadians through groundbreaking translational research and innovation. The research is diverse in both subject and scope \u2013 k from mapping how the brain reorganizes itself after a stroke and investigating why glioblastoma tumours sometimes return after surgery to testing whether older adults on dialysis could maintain their health with less frequent treatment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The CIHR Project Grants are highly competitive across Canada,&#8221; says Nancy Ross, Vice-Principal (Research) at Queen&#8217;s. &#8220;Congratulations to the successful Queen&#8217;s research teams and thank you to the Government of Canada and CIHR for their continued investment in research that supports that health and wellbeing of Canadians.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many of these research projects involve activities occurring at Kingston Health Sciences Centre, which reflects the collaborative partnership between Queen\u2019s and the regional tertiary care academic hospital.<\/p>\n<p>See the full list of Queen&#8217;s-funded CIHR projects below:<\/p>\n<p>Project Grant<\/p>\n<p>Sheela Abraham (Biomedical and Molecular Sciences): Extracellular vesicles are the gatekeepers of the haematopoietic stem cell health and survival &#8211; $1,181,926<\/p>\n<p>Douglas Cook (Surgery), Jason Gallivan (Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Psychology): Understanding whole-brain reorganization following stroke and its relation to functional recovery &#8211; $1,204,876<\/p>\n<p>Shannon Fernando (Critical Care Medicine), Karim Soliman (Critical Care Medicine): Adjunctive Methylene Blue in Septic Shock (BLUSH) &#8211; A Multicentre Pilot Feasibility Trial &#8211; $543,150<\/p>\n<p>Sandra Fucile (Rehabilitation Therapy): Evaluating a Virtual Infant Development Screening Program to Improve Access to Care for Children with a Complex Medical Condition &#8211; $891,224<\/p>\n<p>Jason Gallivan (Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Psychology): \u00a0A neuro-computational model of motor learning: Dissociating memory expression, updating, and creation in the human brain &#8211; $696,150<\/p>\n<p>Parvin Mousavi (Computing): PROPEL-AS: Prostate personalized surveillance using pathology-aligned multi-modal imaging &#8211; $1,151,326<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Mueller (Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Sinclair Cancer Research Institute): Monitoring the response to Lung Cancer Immunotherapy using an mDETECT Liquid Biopsy &#8211; $1,128,374<\/p>\n<p>Wendy Parulekar (Oncology, Sinclair Cancer Research Institute), Josee-Lyne Ethier (Public Health Sciences, Sinclair Cancer Research Institute): Refining Adjuvant treatment IN endometrial cancer Based On molecular features (RAINBO) No Specific Molecular Profile (NSMP)-ORANGE trial &#8211; $1,575,898<\/p>\n<p>Teresa Purzner (Surgery, Sinclair Cancer Research Institute), James Purzner (Surgery): Identifying Drivers of Glioblastoma Recurrence Through Molecular and Functional Profiling of Surgical Margins and Infiltrated Brain &#8211; $994,500<\/p>\n<p>S\u00e9bastien Talbot (Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Sinclair Cancer Research Institute): Nociceptor neurons control tumor-associated macrophages &#8211; $1,143,676<\/p>\n<p>Christine White (Medicine), Rachel Holden (Medicine): A Randomized Controlled Study of Dialysis Less Frequently in the Elderly (DLITE) &#8211; $940,950<\/p>\n<p>Xiaolong Yang (Pathology and Molecular Medicine): Investigating the Role of GREP1 in Breast Cancer Metastasis and Therapy &#8211; $1,266,076<\/p>\n<p>Project Grant: Bridge Funding<\/p>\n<p>Steven Brooks (Emergency Medicine): Empowering Communities to Save Lives: Optimizing the Neighbours Saving Neighbours Program for Cardiac Arrest Response &#8211; $100,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thirteen research teams at Queen\u2019s University have received a combined $12.7 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-310883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}