Congratulations to our CIHR Project Grant Recipients!
CIHR results for the last project grant competition were published today. We are pleased to report that in this latest competition, Douglas researchers have collectively secured nearly $4.5M – congratulations to all successful applicants, and thank you to Dr. Dominique Walker, who chairs the Internal Grant Review Committee, as well as to all the researchers who gave their time to review their colleagues’ applications.
Project Grants awarded to the Douglas
- Mahsa Dadar– Developing a novel ex vivo acquisition and analysis pipeline to understand the neuropathological basis of magnetic resonance imaging findings: application in Alzheimer’s disease
- With Douglas co-applicants – Mallar Chakravarty, Naguib Mechawar, Yashar Zeighami
- Marie-Claude Geoffroy –Beyond the ‘Teenage Blues’: A longitudinal population-based study documenting the long-term outcomes of adolescent depression
- With Douglas co-applicants – Massimiliano Orri
- Bruno Giros– Dopaminergic activation of microglia through D1 and D2 receptors controls inflammatory state and behavior
- Massimiliano Orri– Youth-emerging mental disorders: comprehensive analysis of long-term health, mortality, and socioeconomic outcomes across 4 Canadian provinces
- With Douglas co-applicants – Marie-Claude Geoffroy, Anthoiny Gifuni, Srividya Iyer, Martin Lepage, Lena Palaniyappan, Geneviève Sauvé

Project Grants awarded elsewhere
In addition, some of our researchers have obtained funding as co-investigators:
- Delphine Raucher-Chéné (NPI: Benjamin Goldstein) – Coronary Microvascular Reactivity in Relation to Brain Structure, Cardiovascular Genetics, and Serious Mental Illness in Youth
- With Douglas co-applicants – Anthony Gifuni, Martin Lepage, Lena Palaniyappan
- Jai Shah (NPI: Anne Cockcroft) – Youth co-design prevention of gendered personal and interpersonal violence in Botswana
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Other co-applicants from the Douglas :
- Linda Booij (NPI:Angela Alberga) – Unintended consequences of participating in pediatric obesity interventions
- Mallar Chakravarty, Cecilia Flores, Michael Meaney (NPI: Thomas Paus) – Group child care and cortical growth
- Massimiliano Orri, Gustavo Turecki (NPI: Michel Boivin) – Genetic and environmental pathways in the intergenerational transmission of externalizing behaviour problems: A longitudinal study of three population-based cohorts
- Lena Palaniyappan (NPI: Rudolph Uher) – Early identification of risk for major depressive and bipolar disorders from polygenic scores, family history, and developmental psychopathology
- Pedro Rosa-Neto (NPI: Marc Roig) – Preventing post-stroke cognitive impairment and dementia with multimodal exercise training
- Sylvia Villeneuve (NPI: Andrée-Ann Baril) – Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease in patients with diagnosed insomnia: identification of subpopulations at higher risk of pathology
- Yashar Zeighami (NPI: Alain Dagher) – Effects of GLP1-agonist induced weight loss on brain, metabolic, and cerebrovascular health measures