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Grants & Fellowships

Benjamin Alman (OrthSurg) has been awarded a CIHR Open Operating Grant ($931,675) in the September 2007 Competition for a study titled "Molecular Mechanisms in Fracture and Wound Healing".

Ben has also received a National Cancer Institute of Canada / CCS Research Grant ($681,140) for a study titled "Beta-catenin in Aggressive Fibromatosis: Molecular Pathology and Implications for Therapy".

David Backstein (OrthSurg) with PI applicant, James Henry have been awarded a CIHR Grant ($500,000) for a study in pain management titled "Community Alliances for Health Research and Knowledge Exchange in Pain".

Nancy Baxter (GenSurg) has been awarded a CIHR Open Operating Grant ($355,254) in the September 2007 Competition for a study titled "The Young Adult Survivors of Cancer".

Mark Cattral (GenSurg) is the recipient of a Heart & Stroke Foundation of Ontario - Operating Grant ($230,082) for a study titled "Role of Immediate Dendritic Cell Precursors in Allograft Rejection and Tolerance".

Natalie Coburn (GenSurg) has received a National Cancer Institute of Canada / CCS Research Grant for New Investigators ($552,466) for a study titled "Improving Gastric Cancer Survival: Development and Measurement of Quality Indicators Using the RAND/ UCLA Appropriateness Method and Population-based Data Analysis".

John Coles (CardSurg) has been awarded a CIHR Open Operating Grant ($409,668) in the September 2007 Competition for a study titled "Role of Integrin-linked Kinase (ILK) in Tetralogy of Fallot".

John is also the recipient of two Heart & Stroke Foundation of Ontario - Operating Grants for studies titled "Integrin-linked Kinase (ILK) Promotes Compensated Cardiac Hypertrophy" ($156,600) and "Defective Cell Signaling in Tetralogy of Fallot (TF)" ($158,600).

Peter Dirks (NeurSurg) has been awarded a CIHR Open Operating Grant ($505,830) in the September 2007 Competition for a study titled "Asymmetrical Self Renewal in Normal and Cancer Stem Cells of the Human Brain".

Michael Fehlings (NeurSurg) is the recipient of a Heart & Stroke Foundation of Ontario - Operating Grant ($253,167) for a study titled "The Ischemic Axon: Cross-talk With Myelin in K+ Channel Terms".

Michael has also received a one-year grant from the Rick Hansen Man in Motion Foundation for $132,796 for his study "Examination of the Key Imaging and Clinical Determinants of Outcome After Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury".

David Grant (GenSurg) is the recipient of a Heart & Stroke Foundation of Ontario - Operating Grant ($265,800) for a study titled "fgl2/FGL2 and Xenograft Transplantation".

Ab Guha (NeurSurg) is the recipient of a grant from b.r.a.i.n Child for his work on "Embryonic Stem Cell Based Models of Low Grade Glioma".

Ab received an Ontario Institute of Cancer Research (OICR) - Cancer Stem Cell Group Grant to UHN and Sick Kids, 2008-2012.

Andras Kapus (Research) has been awarded a CIHR Open Operating Grant ($617,820) in the September 2007 Competition for a study titled "Myocardin-related Transcription Factor: A Central Regulator of Epithelialmyofibroblast Transition".

Soheila Karimi (Research) with co-applicant Michael Fehlings (NeurSurg) received a one-year Young Investigator Research Grant Award from AOSpine North America for her study "Translating the Promise of Cellular-based Strategies for Repair of Spinal Cord Injury: Impact of Combined Therapy with Neural Precursor Cells, Growth Factor Delivery and Inhibition of Glial Scar Formation".

Peter Kim (GenSurg) has been awarded a CIHR Open Operating Grant ($517,452) in the September 2007 Competition for a study titled "Models and Mechanisms of Accelerated Ageing: P63 Regulation of Progenitor Cells and Cellular Senescence in Intestine".

Laurence Klotz (UrolSurg) has received a National Cancer Institute of Canada / CCS Research Grant - Prostate Cancer ($153,174) for a study titled "Phase I Evaluation of the Feasibility and Safety of MRI-guided Transurethral Ultrasound Therapy for the Treatment of Localized Prostate Cancer".

Paulo Koeberle (Anatomy) has been awarded a CIHR Open Operating Grant ($257,217) in the September 2007 Competition for a study titled "The Role of Extracellular Matrix Interactions in Adult CNS Neuroprotection".

Abhaya Kulkarni (NeurSurg) is the recipient of a 2 year Physician's Services Incorporated Foundation (PSI) Grant ($98,000) for his study "White Matter Brain Injury in Children with Hydrocephalus".

Ren-Ke Li (Research) has been awarded a CIHR Open Operating Grant ($681,120) in the September 2007 Competition for a study titled "An Angiogenic Progenitor Cell Niche in the Uterus: Potential Implications for Cell Therapy".

Cindi Morshead (Anatomy) is the recipient of a Heart & Stroke Foundation of Ontario - Operating Grant ($459,330) for a study titled "The Development of Drug and Cell Delivery Systems for Use in Cell Based Therapies to Treat Stroke".

Allan Okrainec (GenSurg) and co-PI, Georges Azzie (GenSurg) are the recipients of a Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) Grant ($25,753) for their project "The Effectiveness of Telesimulation for Teaching the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery in Africa".

James Rutka (NeurSurg) has received a National Cancer Institute of Canada / CCS Research Grant ($378,000) for a study titled "The Role of Aberrant HGF/cMET Signaling in Medulloblastoma".

Charles Tator (NeurSurg) received a two year Research Grant from the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada for his project entitled "Neural Stem/Progenitor Cells for Remyelination and Recovery in Multiple Sclerosis".

Michael Tymianski (NeurSurg) has been awarded a CIHR Aging Competition Grant ($166,052) for a study titled "Role of TRPM Channels in Ischemic Brain Damage".

Glen Van Arsdell, (CardSurg) is the recipient of a Heart & Stroke Foundation of Ontario - Operating Grant ($134,680) for a study titled "Selective Generation of Cardiac Progenitor Cells and Cardiomyocytes from Mouse Cells".

Thomas Waddell (ThorSurg) has been awarded a CIHR Open Operating Grant ($563,146) in the September 2007 Competition for his study titled "The Role of Bone Marrow Progenitors in Lung Regeneration".

Cari M. Whyne (Research) has been awarded a CIHR Open Operating Grant ($379,864) in the September 2007 Competition for a study titled "Bone Stability and Tumour Burden in the Metastatic Spine: Implications of Variable Disease Patterns".

Jay Wunder (OrthSurg) has been awarded a CIHR Open Operating Grant ($807,945) in the September 2007 Competition for a study titled "Hedgehog Signaling in Cartilage Neoplasia and Development".


Mae Cantos (GenSurg Resident) is the recipient of the Pfizer / Surgical Infection Society Foundation Fellowship for 2008-2009.

Gregory Hawryluk (NeurSurg Resident) and Michael Fehlings (NeurSurg) were successful in obtaining a US$60,000 renewal for year two of their grant from the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation to study "Transplantation of Neural Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering Approaches to Repair Chronic, Severe Spinal Cord Injury".

Betty Kim (NeurSurg Resident) is the recipient of a 2008 AANS/NREF Research Fellowship Award.

Cian O'Kelly (NeurSurg Resident) is the recipient of a 2008 Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) / Micrus Endovascular Neurosurgery Fellowship.

Scellig Stone (NeurSurg Resident) is a recipient of a CIHR Fellowship for his work on "Amplification of Neurogenesis in the Adult Dentate Gyrus Using Deep Brain Electrical Stimulation of Limbic Inputs: Morphological, Gene Expressional, and Behavioural Evidence for Enhanced Preferential Incorporation of New Granule Cells into Hippocampal Memory Networks".

Alexander Velumian (NeurSurg Resident) is the recipient of a NSERC Grant for his work on "The Living Myelin Sheath: Functional Organization and Role in Dynamic Modulation of Axonal Function in CNS".




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