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Introduction of newly appointed scientists & Recent successful grants, awards and honours received (through the ORA). Research Community Forum Monday, April 8, 2019 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. Newly appointed scientists to the LKSKI. Blake Murphy, Associate Scientist, Department of Surgery
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Introduction of newly appointed scientists & Recent successful grants, awards and honours received (through the ORA) Research Community Forum Monday, April 8, 2019 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.
Newly appointed scientists to the LKSKI • Blake Murphy, Associate Scientist, Department of Surgery • Carolyn Snider, Associate Scientist, Department of Emergency Medicine • Anil Adisesh, Associate Scientist, Department of Medicine • Abbas Ghavam-Rassoul, Project Investigator, Department of Family Medicine • Clara Juando-Prats, Associate Scientist, Applied Health Research Centre • Charles Keown-Stoneman, Scientist, Applied Health Research Centre • Cheryl Pritlove, Associate Scientist, Applied Health Research Centre • Christine Fahim, Scientist, Knowledge Translation
Sandra de Montbrun • St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation • $185,000 • 2018 – 2022 • Title: “Rae Early career Professorship in Colon Cancer Surgical Care”
Yvonne Bombard • St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation • $25,000 • 2018 – 2020 • Title: “Genomics Adviser”
Navindra Persaud • St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation • $167,000 • 2018 – 2022 • Title: “CLEAN Meds – Carefully selected easily accessible at no charge medications”
Mario Ostrowski • St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation • $25,000 • 2019 – 2020 • Title: “Designing novel next generation CAR-T cells to cure HIV infection”
Tara Kiran • St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation • $25,000 • 2018 – 2021 • Title: “Operation Zero”
Paul Dorian • St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation • $25,000 • 2018 – 2020 • Title: “AED on the way”
Kim Connelly • St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation • $500,000 • 2018 – 2021 • Title: “Scar Wars: Fibrosis in the Heart”
Michael Cusimano • Public Health Agency of Canada • $49,800 • 2018 – 2020 • Title: “Examination of cannabis and alcohol-related acute health outcomes and related risk factors from emergency departments…”
Subodh Verma • BoehringerIngelheim (Canada) Ltd. • $150,000 • 2017 – • Title: “Diabetes and CV Disease Scholarship, Traineeship in Atherosclerosis”
Katerina Pavenski • Octopharma • $20,000 • 2017 – 2039 • Title: “FIBrinogen Replenishment in Surgery Prospective, multi-center, randomized, active-control, non-inferiority study comparing fibrinogen concentrate with cryoprecipitate for the treatment..”
Elizabeth Tullis • Proteostasis Therapeutics, Inc. • $96,000 • 2018 – 2039 • Title: “A Phase I Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, and Pharmacokinetics of PTI-808 in Healthy Adult Subjects and in Adults with CF”
Howard Leong-Poi • Aegis Medical Innovations • $71,500 • 2015 – 2020 • Title: “A single arm open label multi-centre safety study of the Aegis Sentinel ligature in left atrial appendage closure in patients with Afib”
Elizabeth Tullis • Corbus International Inc. • $90,000 • 2019 – 2039 • Title: “A multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2 Trial to evaluate efficacy and safety of Lenabasum in CF”
ChristineBrezden-Masley • Odonate Therapeutics LLC • $93,000 • 2018 – 2022 • Title: “A multinational multicenter randomized Phase 3 study of Tesetaxel plus a reduced dose of Capecitabine vs Capecitabine alone in patients with HER2 Negative, Hormone Receptor Positive…”
Christine Brezden-Masley • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Canada Inc. • $218,867 • 2018 – 2023 • Title: “BYLieve: A phase II, multicenter, open-label, two-cohort, non-comparative study to assess the efficacy and safety of alpelisib”
Tara Kiran • Gilead Sciences Canada Inc. • $54,450 • 2019 • Title: “Micro-elimination of Hepatitis C in a high risk urban family health team”
Xavier Montalban • Hoffman-La Roche Limited (Canada) • $384,435 • 2019 - 2023 • Title: “An Open-label Single-Arm 4-year study to evaluate effectiveness and safety of ocrelizumab treatment in patients with progressive MS”
RajeevMuni • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Canada Inc. • $150,000 • 2018 - 2039 • Title: “Cytokine and visual outcome variations in eyes receiving a variable dosing ranibizumab treatment / COVERT Study”
ChristineBrezden-Masley • Purdue Pharma • $19,500 • 2018 - 2020 • Title: “A Phase IV, real world observational study on the use of akynzco (netupitant/palonosetron) for prevention of nausea and vomiting in oncology patients receiving highly emotogenic chemotherapy..”
Monica Farcas • St. Michael’s Hospital • $50,000 • 2018 - 2023 • Title: “SMH Surgeon-in-Chief”
Amol Verma • SMPA Admin Agent Inc. • $30,000 • 2018 - 2039 • Title: “Start up support from Department of Medicine via SMPA Admin Agent Inc.”
AdenaScheer • Women’s College Hospital • $15,000 • 2018 - 2019 • Title: “Improving cross culturally informed shared decision making in breast cancer surgery”
Sharmistha Mishra • USAID • $13,671 • 2018 • Title: “Key populations and HIV epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa: Developing better epidemiologic evidence and tools to inform priorities and programs”
Sharmistha Mishra • USAID • $74,185 • 2018 – 2019 • Title: “Strengthening capacity for assessment of HIV-related data needs among key populations to inform evidence-based responses”
Teodor Grantcharov • Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons • $28,000 • 2018 – 2019 • Title: “Surgical Education – Setting performance – Based standards in Robotic Surgery”
Teodor Grantcharov • Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons • $29,761 • 2017 – 2019 • Title: “Improving video recording of open surgery with a body – mounted mororized gimbal-stabilized camera system”
Stella Ng • Women’s College Hospital • $11,765 • 2017 – 2019 • Title: “Teaching critical reflection to support future learning: A mixed methods study in a simulated, older adult homecare context”
Darren Yuen • Canadian Society of Transplantation • $60,000 • 2018 – 2019 • Title: “Enhanced ultrasound: A novel tool to measure chronic renal allograft injury”
Rachel Shupak • Canadian Rheumatology Association • $10,800 • 2018 – 2019 • Title: “Measuring advanced/extended practice roles in arthritis and musculoskeletal care in Canada: Stand up and be counted too”
RashidaHaq • Queen’s University • $8,250 • 2018 – 2020 • Title: “(Amendment #1) Participating Centre Study Agreement – Canadian Cancer Trials Group (CCTG)”
Monica Farcas • St. Michael’s Hospital Division of Urology AEF • $45,000 • 2018 – 2023 • Title: “SMH Division of Urology AEF”
Monica Farcas • University of Toronto • $30,000 • 2018 – 2023 • Title: “U of T – Division of Urology - Startup”
Karen Burns • Physician Services Incorporated Foundation • $249,788 • 2018 – 2023 • Title: “Fluids in Sepsis and Septic Shock (FISSH): A randomized, controlled trial”
Amir Khoshbin • Physician Services Incorporated Foundation • $48,000 • 2019 – 2022 • Title: “Patient satisfaction and costs associated with total hip arthoplasty”
Yvonne Bombard • CIHR • $1,495 • 2018 – 2019 • Title: “Quality of life is a major driver of patients’ preferences for incidental genomic sequencing results”
Michelle Firestone • CIHR • $2,800 • 2018 – 2019 • Title: “Indigenous commercial tobacco use in Toronto, Canada”
Ayden Scheim • CIHR • $19,130 • 2018 – 2019 • Title: “Developing a community-based study of transgender men’s health and human rights in India”
Sharmistha Mishra • CIHR • $75,000 • 2018 – 2032 • Title: “The impact of political conflict on the dynamics of sex work and the HIV/STI and HCV epidemic in Ukraine”
Paul Dorian • CIHR • $750 • 2018 – 2019 • Title: “The 12-lead ECG is insensitive for diagnosing ARVC in young persons: Implications for pre-participation screening”
Andrew Pinto • Named new associate director for Clinical Research for the University of Toronto Practice-Based Research Network (UTOPIAN) • Also named 2019 PSI Graham Farquharson Knowledge Translation Fellow by the PSI Foundation
Karen Cross • Named a Woman of Influence by Women of Influence Inc.
Richard Gilbert and Darren Yuen • Their spin-off company, Fibrocor, entered into a deal with Galapagos NV to develop therapeutics to treat fibrotic diseases of the kidney and other organs.
Subodh Verma and David Jenkins • Their research articles were two of the most talked about articles from the Journal of the American College of Cardiology in 2018.
Subodh Verma and David Jenkins • Their research articles were two of the most talked about articles from the Journal of the American College of Cardiology in 2018.
Yeni Yucel and Neeru Gupta • Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology top 10 most cited article of 2018.
Kamran Khan and Michael Cusimano • Recipients of the 2018 President’s Impact Awards from U of T.
Michael Cusimano • Recipient of the 2018 Carolyn Tuohy Impact on Public Policy Award from U of T.
Rajeev Muni • Named Innovator of the Year by Eye Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario.