Dr. Thomas Murooka News Archive
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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).
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
![Dr. Josée Lavoie at the Jan. 26, 2018 announcement.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Lavoie_WEB-150x150.jpg)
$9.7M investment in innovative health research
January 26, 2018 —
Manitoba researchers receive funding to study mental health, multiple sclerosis, Indigenous health, and more