UM health researchers receive more than $9.6 million in federal funding

Dr. Inna Rabinovich-Nikitin is in her lab wearing a white lab coat. She is pouring a red liquid from one container to another.

UM health researchers receive more than $9.6 million in federal funding

February 14, 2025 —
Health researchers at the University of Manitoba have been awarded more than $9.6 million in the latest round of project grant funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).  

college of pharmacy, department of community health sciences, Department of Educational Administration, Department of Food and Human Nutritional Sciences, department of immunology, department of internal medicine, department of medical microbiology and infectious diseases, department of pediatrics and child health, department of pharmacology and therapeutics, department of physiology and pathophysiology, department of surgery, Dr. Dake Qi, Dr. Deanna Santer, Dr. Donald Miller, Dr. Inna Rabinovich-Nikitin, Dr. Jarret Woodmass, Dr. Jason Kindrachuk, Dr. Jonathan McGavock, Dr. Liam O'Neil, Dr. Lucy Delgado, Dr. Marissa Becker, dr. michel aliani, Dr. Thomas Murooka, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Faculty of Education, Foundations and Psychology, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Research and International

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Mother is holding her daughter's hand and is checking her child's diabetes by monitoring blood glucose with a device.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Rady Faculty research projects receive $6.9-M in CIHR funding

November 28, 2022 —
Six studies led by Rady Faculty of Health Sciences researchers received nearly $7 million in funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

Dr. Lorrie Kirshenbaum, Dr. Mojgan Rastegar, Dr. Peter Thompson, Dr. Rob Lorway, Dr. Ryan Zarychanski, Dr. Thomas Murooka, Max Rady College of Medicine, medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Research and International

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Dr. Deanna Santer, wearing a white lab coat and a surgical mask, sits in front of a microscope.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

UM research teams awarded funding for cutting-edge equipment

March 2, 2022 —
The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has invested $1.3 million in infrastructure support for six UM research teams, ensuring that the researchers have the equipment and technology they need to drive innovation in their fields

college of pharmacy, Dr. Christopher Pascoe, Dr. Deanna Santer, Dr. Hagar Labouta, Dr. Thomas Murooka, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine, Price Faculty of Engineering, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Research and International

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A close-up of a ventilator with tubes running into it.

Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

UM researchers investigate why being on a ventilator can damage organs

December 16, 2021 —
A UM research team is examining how being on a ventilator affects a patient’s vascular (circulatory) system, and how those effects may be connected to organ damage beyond the lungs.

Dr. Abdel Soussi Gounni, Dr. Andrew Halayko, Dr. Asher Mendelson, Dr. Thomas Murooka, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Research and International

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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

UM-led projects receive $4M in CIHR funding to discover role of microbiome in cervical cancer, asthma

February 28, 2020 —
A pair of University of Manitoba-led projects were each awarded $2 million in funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s (CIHR) Canadian Microbiome Initiative 2 to study the microbiome in cervical cancer and the microbial causes of asthma.

Dr. Meghan Azad, Dr. Thomas Murooka, Dr. Vanessa Poliquin, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Research and International

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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

U of M researcher advancing HIV knowledge one cell at a time

August 16, 2019 —
Dr. Murooka is using his expertise in the study of how cells communicate with each other to advance the body of knowledge around HIV

Dr. Thomas Murooka, immunology, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

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New hope in AIDS research

July 18, 2019 —
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has provided significant funding to two Rady Faculty of Health Sciences professors: Medical microbiologist Keith Fowke, and Obstetrics and Gynecology professor Adam Burgener

AIDS/HIV, Dr. Keith Fowke, Dr. Thomas Murooka, Dr. Vanessa Poliquin, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Research and International, Vanessa Poliquin

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Dr. Josée Lavoie at the Jan. 26, 2018 announcement.

$9.7M investment in innovative health research

January 26, 2018 —
Manitoba researchers receive funding to study mental health, multiple sclerosis, Indigenous health, and more

Community Health Sciences, Dr. Andrew Hatala, Dr. Josée Lavoie, Dr. Kathryn Sibley, Dr. Keith Fowke, Dr. Meghan Azad, Dr. Michelle Driedger, Dr. Neeloffer Mookherjee, Dr. Thomas Murooka, Max Rady College of Medicine, Research and International

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