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:
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.”
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.”
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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