TMU researchers secure CIHR grants for wide-ranging essential health research
Five Toronto Metropolitan University researchers have received funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Fall 2023 Project Grant Competition. Clockwise from top left: professors M. Natasha Rajah, Ian Young, Priscilla Boakye, Costin Antonescu and Trevor Hart
Five researchers from across Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) have secured more than $1.9 million in funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant Fall 2023 competition.
Two researchers received Project Grants. One project will study the link between substance use and sexually transmitted infection among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men. The other will investigate the burden of recreational water illness amongst beachgoers in Canada.
Additionally, three researchers received Priority Announcement grants that will focus on the roles of specific proteins in cancer tumour progression, culturally safe maternal mental health care and the role of biological sex and menopause in brain health.
“TMU researchers are advancing health research across a wide range of disciplines,” said Steven N. Liss, TMU’s vice-president, research and innovation. “I’m thrilled to congratulate all of the grant recipients and their collaborators who will use this funding to move forward critical investigations that will help inform the development of real-world solutions to health and well-being challenges faced today to improve care, diagnosis, prevention and treatment.”
CIHR Project Grant recipients
Faculty of Arts
- Trevor Hart: Crystal Methamphetamine Use and Its Associations with Sexually Transmitted Infections Among GBM: Identifying Modifiable Treatment Targets (external link, opens in new window)
Faculty of Community Services
- Ian Young: The Canadian Beach Cohort Study: Investigating the Burden of Recreational Water Illness among Beachgoers (external link, opens in new window)
CIHR Priority Announcement Grant recipients
Faculty of Arts
Priority Announcement: Intersectionality in Sex, Gender and Health Research
- M. Natasha Rajah: Investigating brain health and episodic memory function at midlife: the role of biological sex and menopause status (external link, opens in new window)
Faculty of Community Services
Priority Announcement: Population and Public Health
- Priscilla Boakye: Understanding and taking action on the risk and protective factors of maternal mental health of Black Mothers/Gestational Parents (external link, opens in new window)
Faculty of Science
Priority Announcement: Breast Cancer Research
- Costin Antonescu: Spatial control of PI3K-Akt signaling within clathrin signalosomes (external link)
CIHR Project Grants support research across all areas of health, and CIHR Priority Announcement grants align with specific research areas within CIHR’s institutes and initiatives.
Learn more about the Fall 2023 CIHR Project Grant competition results. (external link)
Related links:
CIHR Project Grants support innovative TMU health research (July 2023)
TMU faculty advance health research with CIHR Project Grant support (February 2023)