Ottawa – Through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Team Grants in Lung Health, the Government of Canada and partners are investing $19.3M in nine new research projects to address existing and future threats to lung health. Through this interdisciplinary research, the teams will improve our understanding of how biological, social, environmental, and behavioural factors affect respiratory health.
Recipients: Team Grants in Lung Health
| Principal Investigator | Project Title | Funding |
|---|---|---|
| Christopher Carlsten University of British Columbia | Lungs on Fire: Wildfire Smoke, Incident Diseases, Susceptible Populations, and Community Values in Canada | $1,999,990 |
| Elizabeth A. Hicks University of Alberta | Interventions to address exposure and health outcomes linked with air pollution and climate change – an interdisciplinary team approach | $1,799,331 |
| David G. Hammond University of Waterloo | Youth Behaviours, Vaping and Lung Health | $1,999,598 |
| Paul Kubes Queen’s University | Wildfire Particles Exacerbate Asthma by Increasing Inflammation Through Neural and Microbial Alterations | $2,000,000 |
| Benjamin M. Smith Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre | Immune dysanapsis: Updating the paradigm of inflammation and lung health trajectories in diverse populations to achieve lifelong health for all | $1,998,780 |
| Janice Leung University of British Columbia | The Canadian Lung Outcomes in Users of Vaping Devices (CLOUD) Study | $1,999,635 |
| Manali Mukherjee McMaster University | Canadian consortium for understanding the role of airway mucus occlusions in cough, COPD and asthma (CANMuc) | $2,000,000 |
| Pamela S. Ohashi University Health Network | Unconventional Innate-like T cells and Innate Lymphoid Cells as a Foundation for Novel Immunotherapeutic and Adoptive Cell Therapy Strategies in Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer | $2,000,000 |
| Sanja Stanojevic Dalhousie University | Harnessing Data to Improve Lung Health in Canada: Data4LungHealth | $3,493,555 |