Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario

Release of Funds of Existing Multi-Year Research Grants
and Personnel Awards for the term of July 1, 2002 to
June 20, 2003

The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario is pleased to announce confirmation of budget commitment on existing multi-year grants-in-aid and personnel awards as indicated below. An official letter will also be sent to all grant recipients shortly. For those awards identified as "pending", funding is encumbered until additional information is provided.

Additionally, for projects that were identified as being "applied" or "clinically oriented" in the September 2000 competition, funding is encumbered pending the May 15, 2002 Progress Report.

September 2001 Competition Funding Decisions
The funding decisions for the September 2001 competition will be announced by the first week of March on the national website http://www.hsf.ca/research .

Adams, Michael A. (Queen's University)

Involvement of vasoactive systems in vascular structural changes

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$82,367

Adeli, Khosrow (Hospital for Sick Children)

Mechanisms and Regulation of Apolipoprotein B Degradation

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$104,081

Adeli, Khosrow (Hospital for Sick Children)

Mechanisms of VLDL Overproduction in Insulin Resistance

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$91,233

Allison, Kenneth R. (University of Toronto)

Physical Activity Promotion Among Youth

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Health Behaviour
(Pending)
$206,297

Ananthanarayanan, Vettai S. (McMaster University)

Structural Aspects of Collagen Biosynthesis

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$53,907

Andrew, R. David (Queen's University)

Sigma receptor ligands and potential stroke protection

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$53,562

Arnold, J. Malcolm (London Health Sciences Centre)

Vascular Responses in Heart Failure

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$101,009

Arthur, Heather M. (McMaster University)

Strength training for women with heart disease

TYPE 2nd Year Award
New Annual
(Pending)
$71,955

Austin, Richard C. (McMaster University)

Role of homocysteine in the development and progression of atherosclerosis

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Career Investigator
$76,250

Austin, Richard C. (McMaster University)

Mechanism by which GRP78/BiP inhibits tissue factor-dependent thrombin generation

TYPE 2nd Year Award
New Annual
$67,626

Bajzar, Laszlo (McMaster University)

Activation of TAFI and Regulation of TAFIa

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$61,276

Baker, Robert Roy (University of Toronto)

The Metabolism of Platelet activating factor in brain

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$66,887

Bear, Christine E. (The Hospital for Sick Children)

Role of the CIC family of chloride channels in modification of GABAA function

TYPE 2nd Year Award
New Annual
$53,224

Bendeck, Michelle P. (University of Toronto)

Tetracyclines in the Treatment of Vascular Disease

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$73,451

Bennett, Brian M. (Queen's University)

Mechanisms of action and tolerance development to organic nitrates

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$64,396

Bonen, Arend (University of Waterloo)

Regulation of FAT/CD36 and fatty acid transport in the heart

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$64,980

Brouwer, Brenda (Queen's University)

Does altered central inhibition relate to function post-stroke?

TYPE 2nd Year Award
New Annual
(Pending)
$36,136

Bruneau, Benoit G. (Hospital for Sick Children)

The role of Tbx5 in heart development and disease

TYPE 2nd Year Award
New Annual
$79,058

Capone, John P. (McMaster University)

Function and mechanisms of action of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$134,883

Cechetto, David F. (University of Western Ontario)

Cortical Autonomic Control

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$59,293

Cechetto, David F. (University of Western Ontario)

Central Autonomic Control in the Human

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$52,392

Chan, Anthony K.C. (McMaster University)

The study of heparin mechanisms using ATH

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$62,021

Chidiac, Peter (University of Western Ontario)

Beta 2 adrenergic receptor phosphorylation and protean agonism

TYPE 2nd Year Award
New Annual
$61,504

Ciriello, John (University of Western Ontario)

Role of sex steroids in the central regulation of arterial pressure

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$66,301

Cybulsky, Myron I. (Toronto General Hospital Research Institute)

Regional activation of NF-kB signal transduction in arterial endothelium: role in atherogenesis

TYPE 3rd Year Award
New Annual
$93,114

Cybulsky, Myron I. (Toronto General Hospital Research Institute)

Mechanisms of atherosclerotic lesion formation

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$103,887

deVeber, Gabrielle A (Hospital for Sick Children)

Childhood stroke:population-based study of incidence, health care utilization and health outcomes

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Scholarships
$59,000

Durkin, Jon P. (National Research Council of Canada)

Mechanism of MK-801 Pre-conditioning and Neuroprotection

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$57,896

El-Bizri, Nesrine (Hospital for Sick Children)

Mtsl and the Pathobiology of Pulmonary Vascular Diease

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Fellowship
(Pending)
$41,750

Feindel, Christopher (The Toronto Hospital)

Preservation of endothelial function following prolonged storage of cardiac allogragts with shed donor blood

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$73,763

Feldman, Ross D. (The John P. Robarts Research Institute)

Tyrosine kinase-mediated sensitization of adenylyl cyclase activation

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$65,103

Ferguson, Alastair (Queen's University)

Intrinsic conductances and protection from excitotoxic cell death

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$62,569

Fernandez-Duque, Diego (Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Science Centre)

A Study of Attentional Networks in Stroke

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Fellowship
$41,750

Fernando, Pasan K. (Ottawa Health Research Institute)

Elucidating the signaling cascades involved in the cellular response to cardiac hypertrophy

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Fellowship
$41,750

Floras, John S. (Mount Sinai Hospital)

Cardiovascular regulation in men and women with hypertension and heart failure

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Career Investigator
$76,250

Garland, S. Jayne (University of Western Ontario)

Recovery of Standing Balance Following Stroke

TYPE 2nd Year Award
New Annual
(Pending)
$42,599

Gori, Tommaso (Mount Sinai Hospital)

Vascular effects and causes of nitrate tolerance

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Fellowship
$53,250

Gotlieb, Avrum I. (The Toronto Hospital, UHN)

Studies on Valvular Interstitial Cells and Valvular Repair

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
(Pending)
$25,000

Graham, Charles H. (Queen's University)

Oxygen-regulated gene expression in preeclamptic hypertension

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$85,159

Graham, Simon J. (Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Science Centre)

Event-related fMRI of Sensorimotor Activation during Stroke Recovery

TYPE 2nd Year Award
New Annual
(Pending)
$79,113

Grover, Ashok K. (McMaster University)

Modulatory sites on PM Ca pumps

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$53,607

Grover, Ashok K. (McMaster University)

Coronary Artery, SR Ca-pumps and Free Radicals

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$84,593

Guha, Abhijit (Toronto Western Hospital)

Neoangiogenesis in Cerebral Ischemia

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$94,128

Gupta, Radhey S. (McMaster University)

Studies on the regulation and gene mutations on mammalian adenosine kinase

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$62,689

Gurd, James W. (University of Toronto)

Composition andmolecular organiation of postsynaptic densities following transient global ischemia

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$75,513

Hamilton, Robert M. (Hospital for Sick Children)

Fetal Electrocardiography

TYPE 2nd Year Award
New Annual
(Pending)
$39,083

Hammond, James R. (University of Western Ontario)

Cardiac Adenosine Transport Mechanisms

TYPE 2nd Year Award
New Annual
$64,290

Hayward, Catherine P. (McMaster University)

Characterization of Multimerin as a Novel, Platelet and Vascular Adhesive Protein

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$80,341

Hayward, Catherine P. (McMaster University)

Serine Proteases in Normal and Pathologic Platelets

TYPE 3rd Year Award
New Annual
$82,380

Hayward, Catherine P. (McMaster University)

Investigations of Novel Secretory Proteins in Platelets and Vascular Endothelium

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Career Investigator
$76,250

Hegele, Robert A. (John P. Robarts Research Institute)

Genetic determinants of coronary heart disease

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Career Investigator
$76,250

Hegele, Robert A. (John P. Robarts Research Institute)

Genetic determinants of CHD risk in Canadian ethnic groups

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$94,394

Hinek, Aleksander (Hospital for Sick Children)

Role of Elastin receptor in Pathobiology of Arterial Thickening

TYPE 3rd Year Award
New Annual
$75,576

Holdsworth, David W. (J. P. Robarts Research Institute)

Investigation of flow in the stenosed carotid bifurcation

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$56,086

Hu, Bin (Loeb Health Research Institute)

Cellular Mechanism Underlying Mannitol-Based Neuroprotection

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$67,296

Huff, Murray W. (John P. Robarts Research Institute)

Regulation of Apolipoprotein B Metabolism

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$116,680

Huff, Murray W. (John P. Robarts Research Institute)

Vascular cell responses in atherosclerosis: a genomics approach

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Program Grant
$250,000

Husain, Mansoor (The Toronto General Hospital)

Conditional over-expression of PMCA sioforms in arterial SMC of transgenic mice

TYPE 3rd Year Award
New Annual
$66,742

Irvine, Jane (The Toronto Hospital)

Home Exercise Training for Patients with Intermittent Claudication

TYPE 3rd Year Award
New Annual
$59,095

Iwanochko, Robert (University Health Network)

Endothelial Dysfunction in SLE: Its contribution to abnormalities in coronary perfusion and the role of ACE Inhibition

TYPE 2nd Year Award
New Annual
(Pending)
$80,170

Kain, Kevin C. (Toronto General Hospital, UHN)

Lipoprotein/CD36 interactions

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$54,250

Karmazyn, Morris (University of Western Ontario)

Endothelin/nitric oxide interaction in the regulation of cardiac function in health and disease

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$83,863

Karmazyn, Morris (University of Western Ontario)

Mechanisms of myocardial injury and heart failure

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Career Investigator
$76,250

Kawaja, Michael David (Queen's University)

Perturbing Sympathetic Hyperinnervation Associated with the Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat Phenotype

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$66,561

Keeley, Fred W. (Hospital for Sick Children)

Recombinantly Expressed P{olypeptides of Human Elastin as a Novel Tool for Investigations of the Structure and Assembly of elastin

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$79,226

Kelton, John G. (McMaster University)

Platelet-Mediated Acute Thrombocytopenic Disorders

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$158,977

Kelvin, David J. (John P. Robarts Research Institute)

Cytokine Regulation of Transplantation Injury

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$75,616

Kim, Peter C.W. (Hospital for Sick Children)

Molecular and Cellular Control of Cardiac Xenograft Rejection

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$73,980

Knoll, Greg A. (University of Ottawa)

Thrombophilia ane Hemodialysis Vascular Access Thrombosis

TYPE 2nd Year Award
New Annual
(Pending)
$51,755

Koschinsky, Marlys L. (Queen's University)

The Structural Basis of Lipoprotein (a) Pathogenicity

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$80,410

Koschinsky, Marlys L. (Queen's University)

Properties and Pathophysiology of Lp(a) in the Arterial Wall

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$71,169

Koschinsky, Marlys L. (Queen's University)

Mechanisms of atherothrombosis:analysis of potential lipoprotein and fibrinolytic risk factors

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Career Investigator
$76,250

Krahn, Andrew D. (University of Western Ontario)

Diagnosis of Repolarization Syndromes

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$50,566

Langille, B. Lowell (The Toronto Hospital)

Cell Biology of Atherosclerosis

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Program Grant
$157,279

Lee, David H. (Queen's University)

Prothrombotic effects of cross-linked hemoglobin

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$58,809

Lee, Robert M.K. (McMaster University)

Alterations in hypertensive arteries

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$87,477

Leenen, Frans H.H. (University of Ottawa Heart Institute)

Cardiac renin angiotensin system and hemodynamic overload-induced cardiac hypertrophy

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$78,355

Leenen, Frans H.H. (University of Ottawa Heart Institute)

Therapeutic Implications of Blockade of the Brain R.A.S.

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$85,594

Li, Ren-Ke (Toronto General Hospital)

Autologous Tissue-Engineered Grafts for Congenital Heart Surgery

TYPE 2nd Year Award
New Annual
$61,287

Li, Ren-Ke (Toronto General Hospital)

Cell Transplantation for Cardiovascular Disease

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Career Investigator
$76,250

Li, Ren-Ke (Toronto General Hospital)

Angiogenesis by Uterine Cell Transplantation

TYPE 2nd Year Award
New Annual
$79,073

Lillicrap, David (Queen's University)

The Influence of Genotype and Environment on von Willebrand Factor

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$88,960

Lillicrap, David (Queen's University)

The influence of genotype and environment on von Willebrand factor gene expression

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Career Investigator
$76,250

Liu, Peter P. (The Toronto General Hospital)

Immunological Mechanisms of Chlamydia Induced Cardiovascular Injury

TYPE 3rd Year Award
New Annual
$103,336

Logan, Alexander G. (Mount Sinai Hospital)

Uncontrolled systolic hypertension and obstructive sleep apnea

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$35,346

MacManus, John P. (National Research Council of Canada)

E2F1 transcription factor and GAPDH promote neuronal death following cerebral ischemia

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$59,998

Mak, Alan S. (Queen's University)

The roles of Rho-GTPases in vascular smooth muscle cell migration

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$79,419

Mantle, Ross E. (Loeb Health Research Institute)

Functional characterization of hypothalamic and medullary synaptic inputs to spinal sympathetic preganglionic neurons

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Fellowship
$51,600

Marsden, Philip A. (University of Toronto)

Molecular regulation of the neuronal NO synthase gene: relevance to cerebrovascular and cardiovascular disease

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$107,750

Martin, Ruth E. (University of Western Ontario)

Neural Mechanisms of Swallowing Impairment and Recovery in Stroke: A fMRI Study

TYPE 2nd Year Award
New Annual
(Pending)
$78,800

Maurice, Donald H. (Queen's University)

Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterase in blood vessels

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$90,082

Maurice, Donald H. (Queen's University)

Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterase in Arteries

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Career Investigator
$76,250

McCulloch, Christopher A. (University of Toronto)

Regulation of actin gene expression by mechanical loading

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$87,943

McDermott, John C. (York University)

Identification of MEF2 co-activators in heart

TYPE 2nd Year Award
New Annual
$21,000

McDonald, Paul W. (University of Waterloo)

Improving the Population Impact of Telephone-Based Counseling for the Treatment of Smoking

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Health Behaviour
(Pending)
$346,296

McPherson, Ruth (University of Ottawa Heart Institute)

Regulation of LRP gene expression

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$58,115

Megeney, Lynn A. (Ottawa General Hospital Research Inst.)

Defining Molecular Basis for Post-natal Growth of the Myocardium

TYPE 3rd Year Award
New Annual
(Pending)
$76,678

Mitchell, Lesley G. (The Hospital for Sick Children)

Predictors of thrombosis in patients with SLE and APLA: A prospective cohort study

TYPE 3rd Year Award
New Annual
(Pending)
$70,103

Monge, Juan C. (St. Michael's Hospital)

Estrogens and Myocardial Infarction: short-term detriment and long-term benefit?

TYPE 2nd Year Award
New Annual
$67,038

Morris, Catherine E. (Loeb Health Research Institute)

Surface area Regulation: sublethal ischemia and neuronal repair

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$48,391

Nakatsu, Kanji (Queen's University)

Effects of nitrovasodilators, NO and CO on blood vessel function

TYPE 3rd Year Award
New Annual
$58,668

Narayanan, Njanoor (University of Western Ontario)

Membrance Functions in Aging Myocardium

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
(Pending)
$100,671

Natarajan, M. (Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation)

Glycemic Control and In-Stent Restenosis

TYPE 2nd Year Award
New Annual
$193,870

Nesheim, Michael E. (Queen's University)

The Activation of TAFI and the Properties of TAFIa

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$79,957

Nesheim, Michael E. (Queen's University)

Collaborative Studies of Hemostatisis, Fibrinolysis and Vascular cell growth and function

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Program Grant
$98,300

Nolan, Robert P. (University Health Network)

Community Outreach Heart Health Risk Reduction Trials: (COHRT)

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Health Behaviour
(Pending)
$296,140

Nurse, Colin A. (McMaster University)

02-sensing mechanisms in rat adrenal chromaffin cells

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$58,533

Olney, Sandra J. (Queen's University)

Reducing Disability in Chronic Stroke through Physical Conditioning

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$56,969

Opas, Michal J. (University of Toronto)

Cardiac Calreticulin: Cell and Development Biology

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$94,930

Pang, Stephen C. (Queen's University)

Mechanisms of chronic and salt-sensitive hypertension in proANP gene disrupted mice: role of neutral endopeptidase and renin angiotensin system

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$77,778

Park, David (University of Ottawa)

Mechanisms of stroke-induced neuronal death

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$55,000

Park, Norman W. (Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care)

Training of novel naturalistic actions post stroke: A scaffolded approach to rehabilitation.

TYPE 2nd Year Award
New Annual
(Pending)
$38,253

Parker, John D. (Mount Sinai Hospital)

Endothelin-1 kinetics in human heart failure

TYPE 3rd Year Award
New Annual
(Pending)
$75,325

Parker, John D. (Mount Sinai Hospital)

Investigations Concerning the Control and Modulation of Renal and Cardiac Sympathetic Activity in Chronic Heart Failure

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$88,964

Parker, John D. (Mount Sinai Hospital)

Further Studies Concerning Tolerance and the Vascular Effects of Nitrates

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$63,779

Peters, Terence M. (John P. Robarts Research Institute)

Image-guidance for Minimally-Invasive Coronary Bypass Surgery

TYPE 2nd Year Award
New Annual
$75,882

Pickering, J. Geoffrey (London Health Sciences Centre)

Control of Smooth Muscle Cell Differentiation

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$78,601

Pratt, M. Christine (University of Ottawa)

Gender differences in vascular estrogen response: role of ERB

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$73,639

Pryzdial, Edward L. (Canadian Blood Services, U of Ottawa)

A Novel Fibrinolysis Accelator Localized by Porcoagulant Phospholipid:Plasmin-Mediated Conversion of the Coagulation Enzyme Complex, Prothrombinase, into a Tissue Plasminogen Activator Cofactor

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$71,330

Rabinovitch, Marlene (Hospital for Sick Children)

AML1, Mst1, Progression and regression of pulmonary vascular disease

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$182,913

Rand, Margaret L. (Hospital for Sick Children)

The Procoagulant Surface of Activated Platelets: Persistence in Vitro and In Vivo

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$72,616

Reid, Robert D. (University of Ottawa Heart Institute)

Program Length and Cardic Rehabilitation

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$15,916

Reid, Robert D. (University of Ottawa Heart Institute)

Interventions to Promote Physical activity for the secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Health Behaviour
(Pending)
$259,174

Renaud, Leo P. (Ottawa Hospital)

Suprachiasmatic Nucleus Efferents

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$57,641

Rodger, Marc A. (University of Ottawa)

Thrombophilia in Pregnancy Prophylaxis Study

TYPE 2nd Year Award
New Annual
(Pending)
$131,392

Roy, Eric A. (University of Waterloo)

Neuropsychological Profiles of Limb Apraxia

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$52,602

Rush, James W.E. (University of Waterloo)

Exercise and Antioxidants in Health and Hypertension: Molecular Mechanisms of Vascular Endothelial Functional Adaptations

TYPE 2nd Year Award
New Annual
$54,722

Sananes, Renee (Hospital for Sick Children)

Predictors of neurodevelopmental outcomes after neonatal CPB

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$59,924

Schlichter, Lyanne C. (University Health Network)

Microglia Activation and Ischemic Damage to Brain Cells

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$76,031

Sheffield, William P. (McMaster University)

Engineered hirudin and barbourin derivatives

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$60,956

Sibbald, William J. (Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Science Centre)

Mechanism and Consequences of Myocardial Tolerance in Sepsis

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$60,054

Slack, Ruth (University of Ottawa)

The Role of Bax and APAF1 in p53 Induced Neuronal Cell Death

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$60,899

Sole, Michael J. (The Toronto General Hospital)

Molecular Genetics of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$168,360

Sorisky, Alexander (Loeb Health Research Institute)

PI 3-kinase-dependent signalling in the preadipocyte: differentiation, apoptosis, and obesity

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Career Investigator
$76,250

Sorisky, Alexander (Loeb Health Research Institute)

TSH receptor signalling and function in human preadipocytes

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$52,785

Sparks, Daniel L. (University of Ottawa Heart Institute)

HDL Structure and Function

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Career Investigator
$76,250

Sparks, Daniel L. (University of Ottawa Heart Institute)

The role of apolipoprotein AI in triglyceride metabolism

TYPE 2nd Year Award
New Annual
$64,260

Spence, J. David (John P. Robarts Research Institute)

Effect of SDG (a lax phytoestrogen precursor) on progression of carotid atherosclerosis

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$61,891

Stanimirovic, Danica B. (National Research Council of Canada)

Transcriptional Regulation of Inflammatory Genes in Brain Endothelial Cells and Astrocytes by Hypoxia/Ischemia

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$57,672

Steiner, George (The Toronto General Hospital)

Triglyceride-rich lipoprotein metabolism in insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$89,405

Steinman, David (John P. Robarts Research Institute)

The role of local hemodynamics in early carotid artery disease

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$76,709

Stewart, Duncan J. (St. Michael's Hospital)

Controlled Trial of VEGF DNA in Severe Angina

TYPE 2nd Year Award
New Annual
(Pending)
$108,250

Stewart, Duncan J. (St. Michael's Hospital)

Biological and Therapeutic Potential of Angiopoietins

TYPE 2nd Year Award
New Annual
$82,386

Tobe, Sheldon (Sunnybrook Health Science Centre)

Double Exposure: Marital and Job strain, Blood Pressure and LVMI

TYPE 2nd Year Award
New Annual
(Pending)
$97,181

Trifaro, Jose-Maria (University of Ottawa)

Role of scinderin, a novel actin filament-severing protein in platelet function

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$65,609

Tu, Jack V. (Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences)

Carotid Endarterectomy Health Services Research Program

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$61,058

Tuana, Balwant S. (University of Ottawa)

SLAPs: A Novel Family of Tail-anchored Membrance Proteins From Myocardium

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$129,737

Tymianski, Michael (University of Toronto)

Mechanism of non-excitotoxic neuronal death of anoxia

TYPE 2nd Year Award
New Annual
$65,442

Van Eyk, Jennifer E. (Queen's University)

Role of the RAC/PAK in cardiac hypertrophy

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$84,775

Van Eyk, Jennifer E. (Queen's University)

Role of RAC/PAK in cardiac hypertrophy

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Career Investigator
$76,250

Verdi, Joseph M. (John P. Robarts Research Institute)

PITS: A Novel Growth Arrest Gene in Sympathetic Neurogenesis

TYPE 3rd Year Award
New Annual
$61,255

Wallace, M. Christopher (The Toronto Western Hospital)

Role of a novel ischemia-induced gene in neuronal death

TYPE 2nd Year Award
New Annual
$60,525

Wang, Yu Tian (Hospital for Sick Children)

Depression of AMPA receptor-mediated excitation by insulin

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$116,647

Ward, Christopher A. (Queens University)

Myocardial actions of hydrogen peroxide: modulation by iron

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$60,386

Warkentin, Theodore E. (Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation)

Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$63,109

Weaver, Lynne C. (John P. Robarts Research Institute)

Cardiovascular control after spinal cord injury

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$91,309

Weisel, Richard D. (The Toronto General Hospital, UHN)

Protection from Perioperative Ischemia

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$64,035

Weitz, Jeffrey I. (McMaster University)

Mechanism of plasminogen activator-induced bleeding

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$99,754

Weitz, Jeffrey I. (McMaster University)

Improving the effectiveness of thrombolytic therapy

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$100,438

Wells, Philip S. (University of Ottawa)

The Bioped Study

TYPE 3rd Year Award
Renewal
$4,546

West, Lori J. (Hospital for Sick Children)

Mechanisms of cardiac allograft tolerance induced during immaturity

TYPE 2nd Year Award
New Annual
(Pending)
$65,857

Wittnich, Carin (University of Toronto)

Impact of gender on myocardial pathology & ischemia/reperfusion

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$79,124

Wojtowicz, Martin J. (University of Toronto)

Consequences of Neurogenesis After Ischemia

TYPE 2nd Year Award
New Annual
$65,670

Woodhouse, Kimberly Ann (University of Toronto)

Elastin polypeptide coated small diameter vascular grafts

TYPE 2nd Year Award
New Annual
$68,622

Yang, Homer (McMaster University)

MaVS - Metoprolol after Vascular Surgery

TYPE 2nd Year Award
Renewal
$36,805

Yao, Zemin (University of Ottawa Heart Institute)

Analysis of exchangeable apolipoproteins in VLDL assembly and secretion

TYPE 2nd Year Award
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Yee, Raymond (London Health Sciences Centre)

Ventricular Irregularity in Atrial Fibrillation

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Young, Edward (Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation)

Anti - Inflammatory Role of a LMWH

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