Dr. Mark Gilbert and his team have been awarded funds to explore anxiety among clients of SmartSexResource.com’s sexual health chat services for the next year.

Dr. Troy Grennan and team have been granted funding to pilot a novel assay to reduce diagnostic lead time for syphilis in asymptomatic men who have sex with men.

Dr. Tom Kosatsky and the environmental health team have been awarded funding to study the potential toxicity of road dust in the spring in rural BC.

We look forward to seeing the results of these research studies and where they may lead in the future. For BCCDC faculty interested in applying for the next competition, be sure to watch your email inboxes in February for the announcement of the Spring 2019 competition, with a deadline of April 1st.

To see some of our past research successes, click through to our main research page, on the BCCDC Foundation website, or you can review all posts in this blog for other successful OAP applications by clicking on the Open Awards Program category.

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Workshop

Drs Gina Ogilvie and Mark Gilbert and their team have been awarded funding towards, “Supporting Regional Participation in a Collaborative Implementation Science Roundtable” to bring together knowledge users and collaborators with the (CIHR funded) GetCheckedOnline program for a two day meeting to review the research findings to date and arrive at a consensus regarding impacts of the intervention and to identify future research priorities of the team currently assembled, including a framework for an “implementation best practices tool-kit” to assist in translation to other jurisdictions.

Travel

Dr Muhammad Morshed has been awarded funding for “Presenting BCCDC Public Health Laboratory Research at AMMI/CACMID AGM”. This funding, as well as funds from two other sources, enables two of his lab team to present four abstracts on behalf of the BCCDC at the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (AMMI) / Canadian Association of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (CACMID) annual meeting.

Blue Sky

Dr Agatha Jassem and her team have been awarded funding for “Correlating Childhood Viral Exposures to Allergy and Asthma Using Novel Viromic Methods”. This pilot study will expand on previous work looking at known respiratory viral infections acquired in early childhood as potential contributors to allergy and asthma at age five. Advanced lab methods that can detect and characterize all known human viruses will be applied to samples from the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) cohort and linked to clinical data on childhood allergy and asthma. The team plans to use this ‘proof-of-concept’ phase to develop a future large-scale investigation.

BCCDC faculty interested in applying for funding, be sure to watch your email inboxes in August: the next round of applications will be reviewed in October 2017.

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Dr. Bhagirath Singh is an internationally-recognized expert in the field of immunology with years of research experience in the regulation of autoimmunity by microbes and autoantigens and peptide vaccines. Dr. Singh is also the former Scientific Director for the Canadian Institute of Health Research’s Institute of Infection and Immunity. Currently he is the Director for the Centre for Human Immunology and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at Western University and a scientist at the Robarts Research Institute. In recognition of his significant contributions, Dr. Singh has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Alberta Heritage Medical Scientist Award and the Award of Excellence of the Faculty of Medicine of University of Western Ontario. In 2000 he was the Banting and Best Memorial Lecturer at the 17th International Diabetes Federation Congress and in 2001 he was Bernhard Cinader Award Lecturer at the Canadian Society for Immunology. He was elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2004 and Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2005. Dr. Singh continues to be sought as a speaker at international meetings. He has served as co-chair of Canadian HIV Vaccine Initiative and a member of peer review grant panels of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International, the Canadian Diabetes Association, Canadian Foundation for Innovation, MS Society of Canada, CIHR and the National Institute of Health etc. He has published over 220 research papers in all aspects of immunology.

The BCCDC Foundation is honoured to have as its SAB Chair such a highly-regarded member of the scientific community. We would like to thank Dr. Singh for his dedication over the last three years. For a complete list of the projects that have been funded by the Foundation’s Open Awards Program, please scroll further back within this blog, as they have been posted twice a year.

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