2018 Scholar award recipients
The MSFHR Scholar Program is designed to support early career researchers as they establish independent research careers, form their own research teams and develop research programs that advance cutting-edge health solutions.
MSFHR is pleased to name 17 exceptional BC-based health researchers as 2018 Scholar award recipients in areas ranging from youth mental health to optimal vaccine use and cancer metastasis.
| Researcher | Project title | Research pillar | Research location |
| Andrea Krüsi | A program of research on criminalization of sexuality, HIV and incarceration among marginalized women | Population health | Gender and Sexual Health Initiative (BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS) |
| Anne Gadermann | Mental health trajectories of immigrant and refugee children: An ecological population-based approach Co-funded with CHÉOS – Providence Health Care Research Institute |
Population health | University of British Columbia |
| Babak Shadgan | Development of a novel biophotonics method to improve treatment and neurological outcomes in acute spinal cord injury | Clinical | International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD) |
| Brodie Sakakibara | Innovative uses of technology to prevent secondary events after stroke | Health services | University of British Columbia Okanagan |
| Faranak Farzan | Neuromodulation research program for youth addiction and mental health | Biomedical | Simon Fraser University |
| Gillian Hanley | Population-based 'big data' research to improve women's health | Health services | University of British Columbia |
| Hugh Kim | Platelet signaling in chronic inflammation | Biomedical | University of British Columbia |
| Joelle LeMoult | Predicting depressive symptoms during the transition to high school | Population health | University of British Columbia |
| John Burke | Phosphoinositide kinases: molecular determinants for their regulation and role in human disease | Biomedical | University of Victoria |
| Karla Williams | Developing novel cancer diagnostic platforms and advancing treatment options for metastatic cancer | Biomedical | University of British Columbia |
| Ma'en Obeidat | Integrative genomics to identify novel therapeutics and biomarkers for COPD | Clinical | Centre for Heart Lung Innovation (St. Paul’s Hospital) |
| Manish Sadarangani | Prevention of severe bacterial infections in children by optimizing protection through vaccination | Clinical | Vaccine Evaluation Centre (BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute) |
| M Eugenia Socias | Optimizing care for opioid use disorder in British Columbia Co-funded with St. Paul's Foundation |
Health services | BC Centre on Substance Use |
| Mohammad Ehsan Karim | A causal inference framework for analyzing large administrative health care databases with a focus on multiple sclerosis Co-funded with CHÉOS – Providence Health Care Research Institute |
Population health | Centre for Health Evaluation & Outcome Sciences (CHÉOS) |
| Rachel Murphy | Studying the role of modifiable risk factors: Nutrition and body weight for the prevention of cancer | Population health | University of British Columbia |
| Shannon Kolind | Imaging repair: Developing and applying unconventional neuroimaging methods for quantitative assessment of tissue health | Clinical | University of British Columbia |
| Skye Barbic | Improving youth mental health and substance use outcomes through primary-care based health services | Health services | University of British Columbia |
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