U of T Engineering professors have been awarded four out of 31 new research grants offered through Canada’s Collaborative Health Research Projects (CHRP) program, an initiative of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Faculty recipients are:
• Professor Moshe Eizenman (IBBME), awarded $353,597 over three years for research on objective assessment of visual acuity in pre-verbal subjects;
• Professor Andrew Avi Goldenberg (MIE), awarded $375,000 over three years for research on MRI-guided focal ablation of prostate cancerous tissue;
• Professor Milica Radisic (IBBME, ChemE), awarded $444,765 over three years for research on tissue-engineered patches for the repair of cardiovascular congenital malformations; and,
• Professor Craig A. Simmons (MIE), awarded $465,255 over three years for research on microfluidic drug screening in complex vascular microenvironments.
Twelve universities across Canada will benefit from the CHRP grants, valued at $13 million, which the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology) announced on July 8, 2010 in Vancouver. Three other U of T professors will also receive the grants.
Follow the links to read the government press release announcing the grants, and the story on the University of Toronto home page, as well as on the Laboratory Product News website.
