CIHR 2023 Fall Competition

(Image clockwise, top left to right): Drs. Tim Oberlander, Matt Carwana, Katelyn Boerner and Gregor Reid.

Congratulations to Drs. Tim Oberlander, Matt Carwana, Katelyn Boerner and Gregor Reid. Their projects were funded in the CIHR 2023 Fall Competition!

Perinatal Opioid Exposures, Trajectories, Insights and Concentrations: The POETIC Network

Principal Investigators: Charissa Patricelli (Family Practice); Timothy Oberlander (Pediatrics)

UBC Faculty of Medicine Co-Applicants: Vilte Barakauskas (Pathology and Laboratory Medicine) Katelynn Boerner and Matthew Carwana (Pediatrics)

Project Grant – PA: Research in First Nations, Inuit and/or Métis Health


Harnessing infection-associated modifiers of paediatric acute lymphoblastic leukaemia progression for therapeutic benefit

Principal Investigator: Gregor Reid (Pediatrics)

Project Grant – Priority Announcement: Early Detection/Cancer Prevention