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Three St. Boniface Hospital researchers are recipients of $1,520,021 in the latest round of grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). The researchers include:

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Sanjiv Dhingra, Principal Investigator, Cardiac Regeneration and Tissue Engineering, Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, who received $521,185 for the project titled “Preserving the immunoprivilege of transplanted allogeneic mesenchymal stem cells in the ischemic heart.”

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Lorrie Kirshenbaum, Principal Investigator, Cardiac Gene Biology, Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, who received $569,850 for the project titled “Targeting cell death signaling pathways in the heart.”

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Roberta Woodgate, Principal Investigator, Psychosocial Oncology and Cancer Nursing Research, who received $428,986 for the project titled “The Journey for survivors of childhood brain tumours: From post-treatment into adolescence and adulthood.”

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