Funding

CancerCare Manitoba Foundation Annual Grant Competition

RESEARCH OPERATING GRANTS

RIOH INFRASTRUCTURE GRANTS

CCMB INFRASTRUCTURE GRANTS

Results of the 2019 CancerCare Manitoba Foundation Research Operating Grants

Pilot Grants were awarded to:

  • Dr Jody Haigh "Creation of novel inducible Cas9 models for in vivo cancer and cell differentiation studies"
  • Dr Sachin Katyal "Identification of novel cannabis-derived therapeutics for the treatment of triple negative breast cancers (TNBC)"
  • Dr Sabine Mai "Disruption of chromosome territories in multiple myeloma"

9 pilot grants were submitted, 3 were scored with a cut-off of 3.98

 

Operating Grants were awarded to:

  • Dr Saeid Ghavami "Mitophagy and Regulation of Non-small Cell Lung Cancer: Bcl2l13 and NSCLC Metastasis"
  • Dr James Johnston "ATM is a Novel Target for Therapy in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia"
  • Dr Julian Kim "Surface Transponder Beacon (Calypso) Guided, Flap-Sparing, hypofractionated Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer Patients Treated with Mastectomy and Immediate Autologous Flap Reconstruction: A Phase I prospective cohort study."
  • Dr Kirk McManus "Defining and targeting the molecular origins of colorectal cancer"
  • Dr Tamra Ogilvie "Novel combinatory therapies for SHH medulloblastoma"
  • Dr Afshin Raouf "Characterization of therapy resistant cells in estrogen-responsive breast cancer tumours"
  • Drs Harminder Singh & Kathleen Decker "Colorectal cancer in young Canadians: examining changes in characteristics, incidence, mortality, and survival over time"

19 operating grants were submitted, 7 were funded with a cut-off score of 4.08.

 

Multi-disciplinary Team Grant was awarded to:

  • Drs Kirk McManus, Mark Nachtigal, Cyrille Bicamumpaka and Alon Altman "Examining the biomedical, clinical, and health outcome impacts of homology directed repair (HDR) in high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC)."

The total value of awarded grants was $719,454.

Calendar of Research Funding Opportunities