CIHR awards over $7M to fund 10 research projects at CRCHUM

Ten teams at the CHUM Research Centre (CRCHUM) have demonstrated their excellence at the national level.

Teams received over $7 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) through the Project Grant: Spring 2025 competition.

This money will go toward funding promising projects in key areas of health research.

CRCHUM management sincerely congratulates each team on this achievement and recognizes their hard work, strong vision, and outstanding contributions to the prestige of the Research Centre in Canada and internationally.

Projects receiving funding 

• Understanding the origins of age-related oocyte aneuploidy by Greg Fitzharris, in the Immunopathology Research Theme, will receive $1,067,176 for the next five years for his project.
• A clinical trial of CHAMPS, an app-based cannabis harm reduction intervention for young adults with first episode psychosis who do not seek to reduce cannabis use by Dr. Didier Jutras-Aswad, in the Neuroscience Research Theme, will receive $799,426 over the next five years.
• Advancing HIV and hepatitis C elimination in people who inject drugs by Sarah Larney, in the Health Innovation and Evaluation Hub, received a $100,000 grant for the next year.
• Enhancing Robustness in Non-Contrast CT Image Analysis for Stroke: Application to Intracerebral Hemorrhage Outcome Prediction by Dr. Laurent Létourneau-Guillon, in the Imaging and Engineering Research Theme, received $405,451 in funding over the next four years.
• Valoriser la donnée de vie réelle pour soutenir l’usage optimal du médicament by Aude Motulsky, in the Health Innovation and Evaluation Hub, will receive $742,050 over five years for the project.
• Vivre avec une maladie complexe, multisystémique et douloureuse: Cartographier le parcours de vie avec un trouble héréditaire du tissu conjonctif pour développer un parcours d’apprentissage patients by Gabrielle Pagé, in the Innovation and Evaluation Hub, will receive a grant of $397,800 over four years.
• The effect of inulin supplementation on anastomotic healing after colorectal surgery—a feasibility study by Manuela Santos, in the Cancer Research Theme, received $374,850 in funding over three years.
• Share2Care: Who is doing what in interprofessional primary care teams? Measuring performance indicators that reflect and optimize team-based care by Nadia Sourial, in the Innovation and Evaluation Hub, will receive a grant of $967,725 over three years.
• Dual regulation of the ALS/FTD relevant target G3BP1 by Christine Vande Velde, in the Neuroscience Research Theme, will receive $1,193,400 over five years.
• Reducing neoplasia recurrence after non-thermal endoscopic resection of large colorectal polyps by Dr. Daniel Von Renteln, in the Imaging and Engineering Research Theme, will receive $952,426 in funding over five  years.

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s investment of $411 million was awarded to a total of 428 researchers throughout Canada.

The full list of recipients can be found on the CIHR website.