Researchers at the university and its affiliate research institutions have received nearly $12-million in operating grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Twenty-seven projects from the University, the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, the Ottawa Health Research Institute (OHRI), CHEO, and the Institute for Mental Health Research received funding, ranking us sixth nationally and second in Ontario. Twelve OHRI projects made a major contribution to the total, receiving $5.4 million in operating grants.
“This set of results reconfirms the University of Ottawa’s position as one of Canada’s top research-intensive universities,” says Dr. Peter Walker, dean of the Faculty of Medicine.
The projects range from assessing the validity of a new decision rule for CAT scans in children with head injuries to diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for obese people with asthma to the role of stem cells in re-creating and replacing diseased arteries in the heart to studying the health of caregivers of children with disabilities.
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