{"id":32620,"date":"2025-07-11T10:25:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T14:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/?p=32620"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:22:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:22:41","slug":"announcing-the-results-of-the-2025-cdtrp-research-innovation-grant-competition-11-new-projects-funded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/announcing-the-results-of-the-2025-cdtrp-research-innovation-grant-competition-11-new-projects-funded\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the results of the 2025 CDTRP Research Innovation Grant Competition \u2013 11 new projects funded!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Announcing the results of the 2025 CDTRP Research Innovation Grant Competition \u2013 11 new projects funded!<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The CDTRP is happy to share the results of the 2025 CDTRP Research Innovation Grant Competition<\/a> and welcome 11 new projects<\/strong> into\u00a0our\u00a0national research structure. Since 2013, the Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program (CDTRP) has supported research and innovation that addresses barriers within the fields of donation and transplantation, with the ultimate goal of advancing long-term health outcomes and quality of life for Canadian transplant patients. CDTRP is very proud to add 11 new projects from devoted and visionary investigators.<\/p>\n

This competition was made possible through the generous financial support, dedication and commitment from our national and regional partners, which include:<\/p>\n

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  1. Takeda<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Organ Donation and Transplant Research Foundation of British Columbia<\/a>: The Venture Grants, Addison Fund<\/li>\n
  3. Kidney Foundation of Canada<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Alberta Transplant Institute<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. London Health Sciences Center<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. University Health Network Multi-Organ Transplant Program<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    We would also like to thank and acknowledge everyone who contributed to the competition and peer review process, including Peer Review Committee Chair Dr. Caroline Lamarche<\/strong>, our scientific reviewers and our patient, family and donor reviewers for participating in the review process and for upholding an excellent level of professionalism and quality.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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    The 11\u00a0new projects<\/strong> that will receive funding and will be added to the CDTRP are:<\/p>\n<\/div>

    <\/i><\/i><\/span>CDTRP Research Innovation Grant sponsored by Takeda<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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    Dr. Megan Levings<\/span> and Dr. Isaac Rosado Sanchez<\/span>\u00a0– Read Article<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    Main Affiliation: University of British Columbia<\/p>\n

    Title: Engineering next-generation CAR Tregs for precision immune tolerance in transplantation<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

    <\/i><\/i><\/span>Organ Donation and Transplant Research Foundation of BC\/CDTRP Venture Grants<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
    \n

    Dr. Sonny Thiara and Dr. <\/span>Mypinder<\/span> Sekhon<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span> <\/strong>– Read Article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

    Main affiliation: University of British Columbia<\/p>\n

    Title: Neurologic Biomarker Guided Prediction of Time to Death Determination in Donation after Circulatory Death Donors<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    Dr. Daljeet Chahal<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>– Read Article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

    Main affiliation: University of British Columbia<\/p>\n

    Title: Characterizing the Physiology of Hepatic Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in Circulatory Death and Normothermic Regional Perfusion: A Feasibility Study<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    Dr. Vikas <\/span>Srinivasan Sridhar<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>– Read Article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

    Main affiliation: University of British Columbia<\/p>\n

    Title: Patient and Physician Perspectives on Cardio-Kidney-Metabolic therapies in Kidney Transplantation<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

    <\/i><\/i><\/span>Addison Fund\/CDTRP Pediatric Research Innovation Grant <\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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    Dr. Manish Sadarangani<\/span><\/span>\u00a0– <\/strong>Read article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

    Main affiliation: University of British Columbia<\/p>\n

    Title: Evaluation of vaccine uptake and associated factors influencing adherence to recommended immunization schedules among pediatric solid organ transplant recipients in BC<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

    <\/i><\/i><\/span>CDTRP KFOC Research Innovation Grant<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
    \n

    Dr. Istvan Mucsi<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0– <\/strong>Read article<\/a><\/p>\n

    Main affiliation: University Health Network<\/p>\n

    Title: Multimodal prehabilitation intervention for patients on in-center hemodialysis waitlisted for kidney <\/span>transplantation\u202f \u2013<\/span> a feasibility pilot study<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    Dr. Sunita Singh<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0– <\/strong>Read article<\/a><\/p>\n

    Main affiliation: University of Toronto<\/p>\n

    Title: Semaglutide<\/span> for the Prevention <\/span>Of<\/span> Post-Transplant Diabetes Mellitus MRI Study – The SPOT-DM MRI Study<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

    <\/i><\/i><\/span>CDTRP ATI Research Innovation Grant<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
    \n

    Dr. Car<\/span>oline T<\/span>ait<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>– <\/strong>Read article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

    Main affiliation: University of Calgary<\/p>\n

    Title: M\u00e9tis <\/span>perceptions<\/span> of organ donation and transplantation: steps to building a culture of donation<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

    <\/i><\/i><\/span>CDTRP LHSC Research Innovation Grant <\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
    \n

    Dr. Zhu-Xu Zhang<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0– Read article<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

    Main affiliation: London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute Inc.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    Title: The potential of inhibiting multiple cell death pathways in transplantation<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

    <\/i><\/i><\/span>CDTRP UdeM Research Innovation Grant<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
    \n

    Dr. Marie-Chantal Fortin<\/strong>\u00a0– Read Article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

    Main affiliation: Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al<\/p>\n

    Title: Kidney Transplant Stakeholders\u2019 Perspectives on the Future of Xenotransplantation<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

    <\/i><\/i><\/span>CDTRP UHN Research Innovation Grant<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
    \n

    Dr. Suze Berkhout and Dr. Kelly Fritsch <\/strong>– Read Article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

    Main affiliation: University Health Network<\/p>\n

    Title: Understanding the Day-to-Day Concessions, Trade-Offs, Compromises of Long-Term Immunosuppression through Arts-Based Qualitative Methods<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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    Congratulations to all of the research teams!<\/strong> We will be featuring each of these projects in our newsletter over the next few weeks, and we look forward to hearing from the teams on upcoming CDTRP events as the projects get underway.<\/h5>\n<\/div>
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    We are already planning for the 2026 CDTRP Research Innovation Grant competition<\/strong>, so start sharpening your pencils and putting your best ideas and teams together for next year!<\/h6>\n<\/div>
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    View past CDTRP Innovation Grants recipients here.<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":32649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32620"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33270,"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32620\/revisions\/33270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}