Ottawa – The Brain Health and Cognitive Impairment in Aging (BHCIA) Research Initiative is comprised of a comprehensive strategy, including a suite of funding opportunities that support research projects, people, and teams that, together, advance knowledge creation, training, and knowledge mobilization that will promote brain health during aging while addressing the complex care needs of people living with dementia and their caregivers.
New scientific knowledge generated by this investment will be shared widely with patients and their families, health care professionals, and policy- and decision-makers, through workshops, webinars, briefings, outreach campaigns, and other knowledge mobilization activities.
Mechanisms in Brain Aging and Dementia is one of several funding opportunities offered through the BHCIA Research Initiative. For a complete list of all funding opportunities through this initiative, please visit the BHCIA Research Initiative: Funding opportunities webpage.
Mechanisms in Brain Aging and Dementia – Grant Recipients
The list of projects with detailed summaries can be found on the CIHR website.
| Principal Investigator | Project Title | Funding |
|---|---|---|
| Lora Appel, York University | VR&R: Providing Respite to Caregivers by Managing Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms in People with Dementia Using Immersive VR-Therapy | $308,952 |
| Dawn Bowdish, McMaster University | Uncovering the role of chronic inflammation and serious respiratory infections in brain aging and cognitive impairment | $750,000 |
| Brandy Callahan, University of Calgary | Aging with neurodiversity: Investigating allostatic and vascular health as modifiable factors impacting brain aging in older adults with ADHD | $641,878 |
| Jing Chen, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care | Neurological markers of mid-life depression and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) in dementia caregivers: the role of neuroinflammation | $377,344 |
| Mahsa Dadar, McGill University | Incorporating Diversity in Alzheimer’s Disease Research: Developing Representative and Generalizable models | $713,000 |
| Brianne Kent, Simon Fraser University | Multiscale dynamical system modelling to understand resilience in brain aging and dementia | $749,400 |
| Andrew Lim, Sunnybrook Research Institute | Healthy Sleep to Promote Resistance and Resilience to Alzheimer’s Disease Related Brain Changes: An Integrated Wearable EEG, Genomic, MR Imaging, and Plasma Biomarker Study of Over 2600 Participants in the Canadian Longitudinal Study of Aging | $749,458 |
| Yona Lunsky, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health | Promoting brain health: A national capacity building project for aging adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities, family caregivers and service providers | $748,975 |
| Maura Marcucci, McMaster University | Mechanisms and prediction of perioperative brain injury and its long-term impact: the NeuroVISION-2 biobank initiative. | $749,558 |
| Megan O’Connell, University of Saskatchewan | Supporting Indigenous Caregivers: Barriers and facilitators to implementing culturally safe dementia caregiver support groups with Indigenous communities and local Alzheimer Societies | $748,085 |
| Marie Pigeyre, McMaster University | Metabolic and Inflammatory Pathways Linking Adiposity to Cognitive Decline : the Canadian Alliance of Healthy Hearts and Minds Biomarker Study | $750,000 |
| Taylor Schmitz, University of Western Ontario | Leveraging deep biology for brain resilience to AD pathology | $739,560 |
| Katherine Siminovitch, Sinai Health System | Resilience to age-related dementia by the microglial ABI-WAVE2 signaling axis | $749,990 |