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Freshly funded: Congratulations to Dr. Seema Mital and Dr. Marcelo Cypel

Freshly funded: Congratulations to Dr. Seema Mital and Dr. Marcelo Cypel The CDTRP wishes to congratulate Dr. Seema Mital and Dr. Marcelo Cypel and their teams at UHN for their success in the CIHR Fall 2020 competitions. Dr. Seema Mital's Project: A Role for novel regulatory variants in childhoood cardiomyopathy (link here) Abstract: Cardiomyopathy [...]

2021-03-30T10:18:06-04:00March 30th, 2021|Categories: General, Newsletter|

CDTRP 2021 Webinar Series: Diversifying Your Research

CDTRP 2021 Webinar Series: Diversifying Your Research The CDTRP is pleased to announce its 2021 Webinar Series: Diversifying Your Research. The topics below were voted on by CDTRP Trainees. The Webinar Series is public and will be open to the community. The Series will count on 7 speakers from Canada, United States and [...]

2021-03-23T10:38:15-04:00March 23rd, 2021|Categories: General, Newsletter|

Freshly funded: Congratulations to the CINERGY Team

Freshly funded: Congratulations to the CINERGY Team The CDTRP wishes to congratulate the CINERGY team, led by Fréderick D'Aragon and Maureen Meade, on their funding received from CIHR 2020 Fall Competition. We asked them a few questions about the process: How has the CDTRP contributed to this work? The CDTRP has supported the [...]

2022-03-31T07:41:51-04:00March 23rd, 2021|Categories: General, Newsletter|

First International Workshop of the Canadian NASH Network (CanNASH)

First International Workshop of the Canadian NASH Network (CanNASH) Joint with Single Topic Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of the Liver (CASL) Due to the obesity and co-epidemic of type 2 diabetes, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common liver disease in our country, affecting one in fourth [...]

2021-03-23T10:05:45-04:00March 23rd, 2021|Categories: General, Newsletter|

CDTRP Support for Research Proposals and Spring 2021 CIHR Project Grants

CDTRP Support for Research Proposals and Spring 2021 CIHR Project Grants CDTRP offers a wide variety of research support that can be integrated into CIHR Project Grant proposals (or any other funding applications). For example, we offer cash contributions toward economic, legal, ethics, or social analysis, funding to support the integration of patient, family [...]

2021-07-19T12:52:37-04:00February 22nd, 2021|Categories: General, Newsletter|

Congratulations to the POSITIVE team: publication in Transplantation

Congratulations to the POSITIVE team: publication in Transplantation Congratulations to Dr. Seema Mital and the whole POSITIVE team for their new publication in Transplantation (view here). This multi-site study was achieved by a collaboration built and supported through the CDTRP. This paper reports that in pediatric patients, a suite of specific variables are key [...]

2021-03-25T09:11:50-04:00March 15th, 2021|Categories: General, Newsletter|

Freshly funded: Congratulations to Dr. Jason Acker and team

Funding Update: Dr. Jason Acker Awarded The CDTRP congratulates Dr. Jason Acker for his recent funding awarded via CIHR Fall 2020 Competition for his research "Enabling liver cryopreservation by controlling ice recrystallization with small molecule inhibitors". Introduction by Dr. Jason Acker: Through the CDTRP network, we have identified colleagues who have the ex vivo [...]

2021-03-16T15:42:29-04:00March 16th, 2021|Categories: General, Newsletter|

Featured Publication in Canadian Journal of Anesthesia: Amanda van Beinum

Featured Publication in Canadian Journal of Anesthesia: Amanda van Beinum Requests for somatic support after neurologic death determination: Canadian physician experiences Introduction by Amanda van Beinum: "This paper was inspired by court cases in Canada in 2018 and 2019 in which the families of patients who had been declared dead by neurological criteria requested [...]

2021-03-16T15:17:54-04:00March 16th, 2021|Categories: General, Newsletter|

March 8: International Women’s Day!

March 8: International Women's Day! #IWD2021 CDTRP has long been proud to have gender-balance at all levels of our network, and have equity as a cross-cutting research priority, but there is much work that remains. We will continue to take concrete steps towards gender equity, and encourage all organizations in the research ecosystem [...]

2021-03-08T19:23:07-04:00March 8th, 2021|Categories: General, Newsletter|

COVID-19 Vaccination in Transplant Recipients: CDTRP National Initiative

COVID-19 Vaccination in Transplant Recipients: CDTRP National Initiative The challenges of the pandemic have been particularly acute for transplant recipients. As vaccination programs begin rolling out across the country, there remain many unanswered research questions about COVID-19 vaccination in this population, who were excluded from all of the initial clinical trials. Over the [...]

2021-03-08T15:24:20-04:00March 8th, 2021|Categories: General, Newsletter|
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