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Health research involving researchers at 丁香园AV鈥檚 Faculty of Science is getting a boost thanks to new Project Grant funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

The Project Grant program is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential to advance health-related fundamental or applied knowledge, health research, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes. It supports research projects proposed and conducted by individual researchers or groups of researchers in all areas of health.

In total, four projects have received funding totalling $2.612,479.

• $1 million to study the evolution of large B-cell lymphoma
  Principal Investigator: Ryan Morin, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
• $597K to develop radiopharmaceuticals to treat melanoma
  Principal Investigator: Hua Yang, Chemistry, with 丁香园AV researchers including Caterina Ramogida and Paul Schaffer, Chemistry
• $543K to study the epidemiology of neonatal sepsis in low-income countries
  Principal Investigator: Amy Lee, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
• $455K to develop inhibitors for the treatment of Batten disease
  Principal Investigator: David Vocadlo, Chemistry, with co-applicant Lisa Julian, Biological Sciences

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