NGDI Member Funding History

Member: Dr. David Grierson
Project: Development of specific inhibitors of HIV pre-mRNA alternative splicing: A new Anti-HIV/AIDS Strategy
Funder: CIHR
Amount: $160,000 - 1 years

Member: Dr. B Brett Finlay
Project: A systematic analysis of Salmonella pathogenesis
Funder: CIHR
Amount: $786,900 - 5 year

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Member: Dr. Wilfred Jeffries
Project: CD74-Dependent MHC Class I Endolysosomal Cross-presentation Pathway
Funder: CIHR
Amount: $834,006 - 5 year

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Member: Dr. Richard Lester, WelTel
Project: WelTel mHealth Program
Funder: Grand Challenges Canada and AMREF
Amount: $2,000,000 - 2 year

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Member: Dr. Kishor Wasan, NGDI and CCGHR
Project: Gathering Perspectives II (GPS2): Collaborative facilitation of a pan-Canadian framework for global health research
Funder: IDRC
Amount: $90,010 - 1 year

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Member: Dr. B. Brett Finlay
Project: The pathogenic E. coli type III secretion system and its effectors
Funder: CIHR
Amount: $981,980 - 5 years

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Member: Dr. James Kronstad
Project: Morphogenesis of fungal pathogens
Funder: CIHR
Amount: $895,741 - 5 years

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Member: Dr. Hongshen Ma
Project: Microfluidic Technologies for Cell Separation and Cell Biomechanics
Funder: CIHR
Amount: $300,000 - 5 years

Member: Dr. Annalee Yassi
Project: Knowledge Dissemination: Impact of Integration of HIV Care to Primary Care in Free State, South Africa
Funder: CIHR
Amount: $10,000 - 1 year

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Member: Dr. Bonnie Henry
Project: An integrated real-time modeling and surveillance decision-support framework to inform public health emergency preparedness
Funder: CIHR
Amount: $100,000 - 1 year

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Member: Dr. Gina Ogilvie
Project: Optimizing the impact of internet-based testing for the control of HIV and sexually transmitted infections among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men
Funder: CIHR
Amount: $372,583 - 3 year

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Member: Dr. Hongshen Ma
Project: Microfluidic devices to measure the deformability of stored red blood cells
Funder: CIHR
Amount: $398,301 - 3 year

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Member: Dr. Robert EW Hancock
Project: Canada Research Chair Tier 1
Funder: CIHR
Amount: $1,400,000 - 7 years

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Member: Dr. Christian Kastrup
Project: Self-propelling Hemostatic Particles that Treat Severe Bleeding
Funder: CIHR
Amount: $159,788 - 1 year

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Program: NGDI-UBC
Project: Program Support
Funder: Offices of VP Research and Vice-Provost and VCHRI
Amount: $120,000 - 1.5 years

Organization: NGDI-UBC
Project: Stakeholders meeting for the Canadian/International Training Program in Global Health.
Funders: International Development and Research Agency of Canada (IDRC), Sandra Rotman Centre, Centre for Global Health Research (U of T), Faculty of Health Sciences (SFU)/Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research.
Amount: $35,000 (including $7,500 from NGDI-UBC).

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Member: Dr. Robert EW Hancock
Project: Design and Function of Antimicrobial and IDR Peptides and Anti-Biofilm Therapy
Funder: CIHR
Amount: $787,000 and $160,000

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Members: Drs. Urs Hafeli and Tobias Kollmann on a team lead by Dr. Jan Dutz.
Project: Transcutaneous Microsphere Vaccine Technology
Funder: CIHR/NSERC Collaborative Health Research Projects
Amount: $600,000

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Member: Dr. Tabussam Firoz
Project:  Mapping Outcomes for Mothers (MOM)
Funder: Grand Challenges Canada
Amount: $100,000

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Organization: NGDI-UBC
Project: Infrastructure Support
Funder: VP Research & International, University-Industry Liaison Office, Dr. Richard Lester and in kind funding from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Amount: $30,000

Member: Dr. Kishor M. Wasan
Project: Extension of CIHR/iCo Therapeutics Chair in Drug Delivery for Neglected Global Diseases.
Extention: One year extension to March 31, 2014.

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Member: Dr. Tobi Kollmann
Project: Lower GBP1 expression reduces human host defense against Listeria monocytogenes.
Funder: CIHR Operating Grant
Amount: $420,077

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Member: Dr. B. Brett Finlay
Project: The role of the microbiota in enteric infectious diseases.
Funder: CIHR Operating Grant
Amount: $645,526

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Member: Dr. Richard Lester, PI - Dr. Kishor Wasan and David Cox Co-Investigators
Project: A global health research collaboration on engagement in HIV care: UBC, AMREF and AKU.
Funder: CIHR
Amount: $23,600

Member: Dr. David Grierson
Project: Development of Specific Inhibitors of Alternative Splicing Events Crucial to HIV Replication: A New Anti-HIV/AIDS Strategy
Funder: CIHR
Amount: $399,168

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Member: Dr. Richard Lester
Project: Global mHealth (WelTel)
Funder: Grand Challenges Canada
Amount: $100,000

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Member: Lyndsay O'Hara
Project: Reducing Nosocomial Transmission of Tuberculosis in South Africa: A Population-based Molecular Epidemiologic Study.
Funder: CIHR
Amount: $105,000

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Member: Dr. Richard Lester and Co-Investigator Dr. Fawziah Marra
Project: Improving Health System Efficiency in Latent Tuberculosis Treatment through Text Messaging.
Funder: CIHR
Amount: $350,000

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Member: Dr. Tobias Kollmann
Project: Maternal-Infant Microbiome and Immunity Network (MIMI).
Funder: CIHR
Amount: $600,000

Member: Dr. Timothy Green
Project: Improving Nutrition of Rural Cambodian Women and Children
Funder: CIHR
Amount: $2,900,000

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Member: Dr. Richard Lester
Project: WelTel Retain: Promoting Engagement in pre-ART HIV care through SMS
Funder: US National Institutes of Health
Amount: $545,361

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Member: Drs. Kishor and Ellen Wasan
Licensee: iCo Therapeutics
Project: Development of oral Amphotericin B for HIV treatment
Funder: National Research Council of Canada
Amount: $1,100,000

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Member: Dr. Hongshen Ma
Project: Developing a low-cost diagnostic screening tool.
Funder: Grand Challenges Canada
Amount: $100,000

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Member:Dr. Peter von Dadelszen
Project: Prediction in Pre-eclampsia
Funder: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Amount: $17,000,000

Member: NGDI-UBC
Project: Celebrate Research Week
Funder: Government of British Columbia's Year of Science
Amount: $1,500

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Member: NGDI-UBC
Project: Infrastructure Support
Funder: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, $30,000, Office of the VP Research & International, $5,000 + in-kind, The University-Industry Liaison Office, in kind
Amount: $35,000

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Member: NGDI-UBC (Kishor Wasan)
Project: The NGDI at UBC: Research Collaboration for the Developing World
Funder: CIHR
Amount: $22,500

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Member: Dr. Santiago Ramon-Garcia
Project: New therapeutic drug combinations for tuberculosis treatment
Funder: Grand Challenges Canada
Amount: $100,000

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Member: Dr. Annalee Yassi
Project: Promoting Health Equity by Addressing the Needs of Health Workers: A Collaborative, International Research Program.
Funder: CIHR
Amount: $1,926,236

Member: Dr. Jerry Spiegel
Project: Food systems and health equity in an era of globalization: Think, Eat and Grow Green Globally (TEG3)
Funder: CIHR
Amount: $1,900,637

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Member: Dr. Charles Larson (head), Dr. Niranjan Kissoon, Dr. Kishor Wasan & Dr. Rosemin Kassam
Project: Interrupting Pathways to Maternal, Newborn and Early Childhood Sepsis Initiative
Funder: CIDA - Muskoka Initiative Partnership Program
Amount: $2,795,738

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Licencee: iCo Therapeutics
Member: Dr. Kishor Wasan (supervisor), Dr. Fady Ibrahim (intern)
Project: Mitacs Accelerate Internship Program
Funder: Mitacs
Amount: $15,000

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Member: NGDI-UBC and Dr. Kishor Wasan
Project: Review of Pediatric Medicines in Lower-Middle Income Countries and Adverse Clinical Outcomes
Funder: World Health Organization
Amount: $17,000

Member: Dr. Rosemin Kassam
Project: Reducing malaria related child mortality in Uganda: defining a sustainable community self-management program
Funder: CIHR
Amount: $100,000

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Member: NGDI-UBC
Project: First Annual Neglected Global Disease Symposium
Funder: Novartis
Amount: $25,000

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Member:Dr. Jerry Spiegel
Project: Meeting capacity-building and scaling-up challenges to sustainably prevent and control dengue in Machala, Ecuador
Funder: Tropical Disease Research Program (WHO) and International Development Research Program (IDRC)
Amount: $300,000\

Member: NGDI-UBC
Project: An International Workshop on Strategies to Treat Neglected Diseases: UBC-Banaras Hindu Univ. Initiative
Funder: Vice President Research and International
Amount: $10,000

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Member: Dr. Tobias Kollman
Project: Development of novel infectious disease applications using proprietary Listeria vaccine vectors
Funder: Advaxis, Incorporated
Amount: $465,000

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Member: Dr. Peter von Dadelszen
Project: The PRE-eclampsia-Eclampsia Monitoring, Prevention and Treatment (PRE-EMPT) Project
Funder: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Amount: $7,000,000

Member: Dr. Kishor Wasan and Dr. Ellen Wasan
Project: Development of an Oral Amphotericin B Formulation for the Treatment of Systemic Fungal Infections
Funder: CIHR and iCo Therapeutics
Amount: $600,000

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Member: Dr. Kishor Wasan
Project: Research Chair in Neglected Global Diseases
Funder: CIHR and iCo Therapeutics
Amount: $600,000

Member: Licensee: iCo Therapeutics
Project: Development of Dr. Kishor Wasan's oral delivery of Amphotericin B project
Funder: CPDD/The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Amount: $180,000