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U of A health researchers to receive $15 million in CIHR funding
University of Alberta researchers are among the recipients of new health research grants announced by [former] Prime Minister Paul Martin in Calgary. More than $222 million has been earmarked to fund research projects across Canada. Dr Hasan Uludag, a professor of chemical and materials engineering, and Dr Walter Kipp, a professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences, are among those who will receive funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to pursue their respective projects. Uludag, who has cross-appointments with the Department of Biomedical Engineering, the Department of Dentistry, and the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, received CIHR grants for two different research projects. He will receive $104,246 a year for the next three years to engineer delivery systems for gene therapy.
Original: ExpressNews
Pioneering cancer researcher earns highest honour
Dr Carol Cass, Chair of the Department of Oncology and Director of the Cross Cancer Institute, has been at the forefront of cancer research since becoming a member of the University of Alberta staff in 1970. In 2006, she was awarded the highest honour in Canadian cancer research, the Robert L. Noble Prize, from the National Cancer Institute of Canada (NCIC). Cass's research has been funded by CIHR since 1974.
Original: ExpressNews
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The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the major federal agency responsible for funding health research in Canada, was created under the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Act in 2000. An arm's-length agency of the Government of Canada, CIHR consists of thirteen virtual institutes, each headed by a Scientific Director and assisted by an Advisory Board. The main aim of CIHR is to excel in the creation of new health knowledge and to translate that knowledge from the research setting into real-world applications. The results are improved health for Canadians, more effective health services and products, and a strengthened Canadian health care system.
CIHR works to forge interdisciplinary relationships to stimulate integrative, multifaceted research that responds to society's health priorities. CIHR also encourages innovation and facilitates the commercialization of health research. Because health research fuels economic growth, CIHR also promotes and diversifies the growth of Canada's New Economy.
CIHR, as part of the federal government's investment in health research, supports more than 10,000 researchers and researchers-in-training every year. In order to receive funding, applications undergo a peer review process, ensuring that the best researchers receive funding. In 2005, 31 applications from the University of Alberta were approved and the institution received more than $15 million in funding.
There are also several awards given out by CIHR that celebrate outstanding contribution, commitment, innovation, and achievement in the field of health research. Recipients of these awards—from dedicated health researchers vigorously pursuing new knowledge to community leaders championing innovation and collaboration-are individuals and organizations whose sustained excellence greatly contributes to discoveries and achievements that improve the health of Canadians and the Canadian health care system.
CIHR Awards include:
- Peter Lougheed/CIHR New Investigator Award
- CIHR Distinguished Leadership Award
- Michael Smith Prize in Health Research