Original story by Faculty of Health Sciences, Written by Mike Ayers
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has awarded over $16 million to research teams across McMaster University’s Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS), as a result of recent funding announcements for Project Grants, as well as Planning and Dissemination Grants.
Funded projects across FHS seek to investigate a variety of important topics, from validifying how wearable technology can assess mobility in older adults, fighting diverse forms of cancer, to developing the latest food allergy clinical practice guidelines.
“Our researchers are driving the future of health science innovation,” says Jonathan Bramson, vice-dean of research for the Faculty of Health Sciences. “The depth and breadth of our expertise continues to fuel impactful discoveries, reinforcing McMaster’s global leadership in transformative research that improves lives worldwide.”
The following FHS projects were awarded funding in the recent announcements:
Advancing justice-oriented patient partnership for more equitable health systems: Knowledge dissemination strategy for the Canadian Patient Partner Study (CPPS)
Julia Abelson, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Building engagement capable environments for health system transformation: An implementation study
Julia Abelson, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
SMARTMOVE: Validating real-world mobility outcomes derived from wearable technology in older Canadians
Marla Beauchamp; Julie Richardson, School of Rehabilitation Science
Planning a Systems Approach to Decreasing Inappropriate Psychotropic Medication Use in Long Term Care Homes
Sophiya Benjamin, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
Barriers and facilitators for developing and implementing evidence-based practice guidelines during a pandemic: An exploratory mixed-methods study
Romina Brignardello, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Facilitating antibiotic stewardship: evaluating the trustworthiness, adaptability, and extent to which antimicrobial resistance is considered in antimicrobial evidence-based practice guidelines
Romina Brignardello, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact; Mark Loeb, Department of Pathology & Molecular Medicine
Food allergy: A Clinical Practice Guideline
Derek Chu, Department of Medicine
Multistakeholder Knowledge Dissemination Meeting REVISE: Re-Evaluating the Inhibition of Stress Erosions in the ICU Trial
Deborah Cook, Department of Medicine
Planning the Launch of the Canadian Obstetric Survey System in Ontario for Severe Maternal Morbidity by Engaging an Interdisciplinary Group of Experts
Rohan D’Souza, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
The global burden and contributing factors to COPD in high-, middle- and low-income countries
Mylinh Duong; Salim Yusuf, Department of Medicine; Shrikant Bangdiwala, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact; Guillaume Pare, Department of Pathology & Molecular Medicine
Biophysical Society of Canada 2025 Annual Meeting
Cecile Fradin, Department of Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences
Systematic single-cell characterization of coordinated RNA regulatory mechanisms underlying glioblastoma progression
Hong Han, Department of Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences
QT-prolonging Medications and Major Adverse Cardiac Events (QTP-MACE)
Anne Holbrook, Department of Medicine
Intravascular Ultrasound for Peripheral Artery Disease Revascularization: The CLARITY Randomized Controlled Trial
Sanjit Jolly, Department of Medicine; John Harlock, Department of Surgery
Prospective Global Platform to Evaluate and Enhance Cognitive and Functional Trajectories after Stroke (PROSPECT)
Raed Joundi; Mukul Sharma, Department of Medicine
Microbiome determinants of impaired wound healing
Lindsay Kalan, Department of Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences
Liraglutide for patients receiving Endovascular Stroke Thrombectomy (LEAST)
Aristeidis Katsanos; Mukul Sharma; Ashkan Shoamanesh, Department of Medicine
Randomized trial Evaluating first time shoulder Dislocation: Surgery vs Conservative care (REDUCE)
Moin Khan, Department of Surgery
A novel strategy to reduce intestinal inflammation and fibrosis by 5-methoxytryptophan (5-MTP)
Waliul Khan, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine
Elucidating the role of memory B and T cells in recall allergic IgE responses
Joshua Koenig, Department of Medicine
Endothelial cell senescence drives progression of pulmonary fibrosis
Martin Kolb, Department of Medicine
Collaborative development of research reporting guidelines for health research involving incarcerated populations: The RESPECT Guidelines Project
Fiona Kouyoumdjian, Department of Family Medicine
Advanced pre-clinical development of selective IMPDH2 inhibitors for the treatment and prevention of brain metastases
Jakob Magolan, Department of Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences
The Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database: From Genes to Interpretation
Andrew McArthur, Department of Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences
An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis of Two Randomized Controlled Trials Assessing Oral Anticoagulation for Device-detected Atrial Fibrillation
William McIntyre, Department of Medicine
Structural Basis of PKG-Targeting Therapies and Aberrant cGMP Signaling ($990,675)
Giuseppe Melacini, Department of Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences
Systemic administration of oncolytic BHV-1 to target multiple cancer indications and the role of therapy-induced immunity
Karen Mossman, Department of Medicine
LEANing into SERENE: Engaging people with lived and living experience in research on severe maternal morbidity
Giulia Muraca; Rohan D’Souza, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology; Benicio Frey; Sheryl Green, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences; Susan Jack, School of Nursing
Mode of operative delivery in the second stage of labour and risk of subsequent spontaneous preterm birth
Giulia Muraca, Abirami Kirubarajan, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Soft-tissue Quadriceps autograft ACL-reconstruction in the Skeletally immature vs. Hamstrings (SQuASH)
Darren de Sa; Olufemi Ayeni, Department of Surgery
Psychometric evaluation of the McMaster Cough Severity Questionnaire: a new cough severity instrument for patients with chronic cough
Imran Satia, Department of Medicine
Targeting BACE1 for the prevention and treatment of Brain metastases ($975,375)
Sheila Singh, Department of Surgery
A Multisectoral Planning Meeting to Co-Develop Criteria for Tracking Canadian Hospital Research Landscape
Jennifer Tsang, Department of Medicine
Co-creating a national evidence base for the development, implementation, and evaluation of learning health systems in Canada
Carly Whitmore, School of Nursing
Prospective Randomized Evaluation of Emerging Novel Treatments for Infection Prophylaxis in Total Joint Replacement (PREVENT-iT)
Thomas Wood; Mohit Bhandari; Sameer Parpia, Department of Surgery
Visit the CIHR grants decision notification page to learn more about these recent announcements.
