Recipient institutions
| Royal Ottawa Hospital – Research Chair in Suicide Prevention | $100,000 | |
| Royal Ottawa Hospital – Prize for Mental Health Research | $100,000 | |
| Queen’s University – University student mental health and well-being research: from evidence to action | $83,375 | |
| Dr. Wayne Quan Award – Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience | $5,000 | |
| MGF Fellowship in Mental Health Addictions and Cognitive Health (CIHR) (post-doc fellowship) | $120,000 | |
| Planet Youth Lanark County Project – Mental Health and Wellness Funder Affinity Group (MHWAG) | $20,000 | |
| Universities | ||
| Memorial University of Newfoundland | 5 | $27,500 |
| Dalhousie University | 5 | $25,000 |
| Université Laval | 7 | $27,500 |
| Université de Sherbrooke | 14 | $25,500 |
| Université de Montréal | 6 | $27,500 |
| McGill University | 8 | $25,600 |
| University of Ottawa | 5 | $27,500 |
| Queen’s University | 5 | $27,500 |
| University of Toronto | 10 | $27,500 |
| McMaster University | 6 | $27,500 |
| University of Western Ontario | 6 | $27,500 |
| Northern Ontario School of Medicine University | 5 | $25,300 |
| University of Saskatchewan | 5 | $27,500 |
| University of Alberta | 6 | $27,500 |
| University of Calgary | 10 | $27,500 |
| University of British Columbia | 10 | $27,500 |
| Total student grants (to 31 December 2024) | 114 | $431,400 |
Student recipients
Memorial University of Newfoundland
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Jennifer Blanchard-Gushue | A review of trends in head and neck cancer statistics in Newfoundland and Labrador (2016 to present) | Dr. Thomas Belbin |
| Michael Connolly | Comparison of Double Kissing Crush 2-stent bifurcation technique versus Stent Balloon Kiss 2- stent bifurcation technique | Dr. Allison Hall |
| Meghan Crane | Exploring extracellular vesicles in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia | Dr. Paul Moorehead |
| Kaya Dooley | Treating anorexia nervosa with guided psychedelic experience | Dr. Timothy Hierlihy |
| Kayla St. Croix | Prenatal opioid exposure and long-term outcomes of children in Newfoundland and Labrador | Dr. Jo-Anna Hudson |
| Natasha Vatcher | Extremely dense breasts and supplemental screening with breast MR: What is the cost to NL healthcare system? | Dr. Connie Hapgood |
| Megan Wiseman | Cancer prevention in cancer predisposition syndromes: testing the feasibility of building a hereditary cancer research registry and nurse navigator follow-up model | Dr. Holly Etchegary |
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Dalhousie University
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor(s) |
| Nicole Dupere | A retrospective review of ovarian clear cell carcinoma | Dr. Stephanie Scott |
| Presley MacMillan | Role of Sleep in Mediating Negative Mental Health Impacts from COVID-19 Stress | Dr. Penny Corkum |
| Julian Oxner | Exploring spirituality in cardiology inpatient care: navigating uncertainty and decision-making | Dr. Gabrielle Horne |
| Jeremiah Philips | A digital health and artificial intelligence-based public health platform for cancer risk prediction for population-level cancer prevention | Dr. Samina Abidi |
| Victoria Smith | Exploring the lived experiences of women’s access to care for ovarian cancer in Nova Scotia | Dr. Robin Urquhart |
For further information on the papers from Dalhousie
Université Laval
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Andreanne Powers | Impact de la fonction ventriculaire droite et critère pour proposer RVA | Dr. Melanie Shaw |
| Athena Croteau | Étude du rôle des modifications de l’ARN dans la sclérose latérale amyotrophique | Dr. Mathieu Flamand |
| Clara Blackburn | Vidéocytoscopie et prévention des récidives de cancer de la vessie | Dr. Paul Toren |
| Justine Provencher | Unité clinique mobile de prévention cardiovasculaire chez les communautés autochtones | Dr. Marie-Eve Piché |
| Mélanie Provencher | Modélisation des leucémies KMT2A-MLLT10 +/- KRAS G13D à partir de cellules souches hématopoïétiques | Dr. Frédéric Barabé |
| Sarah Hammouda | Thérapie radiopharmaceutique personnalisée du cancer de la prostate | Dr. Jean-Mathieu Beauregard |
| William Santoire | Étude du microbiote dans la réponse au BCG | Dr. Vincent Fradet |
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Université de Sherbrooke
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Mathilde Arsenault | Update of CKCis database and retrospective study on nephrectomies at CIUSSSE-CHUS | Dr. Patrick Richard |
| Mathias Béland | Identifier les lésions à pire pronostic des cancers neuroendocriniens sur l’imagerie TEP au 68Ga- DOTATATE par l’apprentissage machine vs les méthodes radiomiques | Dr. Étienne Rousseau |
| Marie-Laurence Bilodeau | Vascular remodeling during pregnancy of the maternal cerebrovascular system | Dr. Kevin Whittingstall |
| Shalie Brodeur | Trajectoire inclusive de sins services et aides en geriatrie (TISSAGES): Ensemble vers des solutions | Dr. Véronique Provencher |
| Alexandre Bui | La maladie artérielle périphérique rend les diabétiques vulnérables aux amputations des membres inférieurs en diminuant le flot sanguin | Dr. Arnaud Demoustier |
| Cahina Chibane | Revue de litérature sur l’impact de la TCC en ligne sur les symptomes d’anxiété sociale chez les personnes agées | Dr. Helen-Maria Vasiliadis |
| Ali Dabayeh | Prise en charge du cancer de la vessie au CIUSSS de l’Estrie CHUS 2022-2023 | Dr. Claudio Jeldres |
| Eve Gauthier | Évaluation de la prise en charge des infarctus du myocarde avec élévation du segment ST au CIUSSSE-Fleurimont en 2023 et comparaison des résultats obtenus avec ceux d’IM Québec | Dr. Simon Bérubé |
| Joël Girard-Lauzière | Evaluation of perineural invasion as an independent prognostic marker for breast carcinomas | Dr. Sameh Geha Dr. Philippe Echelard |
| Alexandra Harnagea | Acropoids | Dr. Fabienne Langlois |
| Marie-Catherine Leboeuf | Kidney Cancer Information System database for retrospective studies | Dr. Patrick Richard |
| Gabriel Potvin | Can-B | Dr. Annie Ouellet |
| David Jacob Sigal | Thalamotomies par Gamma Knife | Dr. Nathalie Rivard |
| Julia Vignone | Lexique émotionnel et douleur chronique | Dr. Sylvie Lafrenaye |
For further information on the papers from Université de Sherbrooke
Université de Montréal
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Florence Cousineau | Virtual reality and psychophysiological measures in the treatment of schizophrenia | Dr. Marc Lavoie |
| Farzin Brian Haghighat | Improving renal outcomes following coronary angiography and/or percutaneous coronary interventions: a pragmatic adaptive, patient-oriented randomized controlled trial (NEPTUNE) | Dr. Guillaume Marquis-Gravel |
| Philippe Harris | Impact of tumor neoantigens on the prognosis after surgery for liver metastases from colorectal cancer and other common epithelial cancers | Dr. Simon Turcotte |
| Paul Kamal | Prevalence and predictors of atrial fibrillation in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy | Dr. Rafik Tadros |
| Clea Peter | Impact of colchicine on interleukin-12 secretion | Dr. Sophie Gauthier-Clerc |
| Robert Sebastian Tuta | Traitement de l’hypersensibilisation anti-HLA par un inhibiteur des recepteurs anti C38 (daratumumab) en greffe cardiaque pédiatrique | Dr. Marie-Josée Raboisson |
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McGill University
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Noa Bouzaglo | Assessing the gene editing efficiency of TP53 and CDKN2A sgRNAs in mouse cells | Dr. Sampath Loganathan |
| Theodore Butskhrikidze | Social determinants of health to improve risk prediction in atrial fibrillation, a UK Biobank study | Dr. Louise Pilote |
| Irem Engin | Investigating the association between circulating lipids and carotid atherosclerotic plaque instability | Dr. Stella Daskalopoulou |
| Dylan Hamitouche | Deep Phenotyping and Digitization at Douglas (DeeP-DD) | Dr. Mélanie Mondou |
| Gleb Melshin | Application of deep learning to analyze speech characteristics of individuals with schizophrenia | Dr. Lena Palaniyappan |
| Maya Verma | Assessing the influence of diet and alcohol consumption on cardiovascular risk and biomarkers in women | Dr. Judy Luu |
| Liam Wilson | Investigating the regulation of MPO expression in GMP-derived macrophages in glioblastoma | Dr. Daniela Quail |
| Edward Shanbedi | Understanding the epigenetic landscape driving mechanisms of resistance in BRCA2-mutated pancreatic cancer using single cell sequencing | Dr. George Zogopoulos |
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University of Ottawa
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Adam Jaremek | Development of a patient risk-factor profile for major post-operative complications following esophagectomy | Dr. Sébastien Gilbert |
| Ian David Kawpeng | Delineating differences in concerns of pediatric cancer survivors between survivors and their caregivers: a cross-sectional study | Dr. Donna Johnston |
| Kyle Tong | Prognostic and predictive performance of risk assessment models for cancer associated thrombosis in racialized populations: a systematic review and meta-analysis | Dr. Yan Xu |
| Sanaz Ghojeh Biglou | Prevalence of patent foramen ovale on transthoracic echocardiography in patients with cancer and stroke | Dr. Dar Dowlatshahi |
| Trina Nguyen | Risk factors and the impact of COVID-19 infection on rates of CMV infection after heart transplantation | Dr. Caroline McGuinty |
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Queen’s University
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Tera Armel | Treatment decision-making in parents with dependent children and metastatic cancer | Dr. Melinda Mushonga |
| Chen Chen | Factors impacting survival of patients with breast cancer in Ontario treated with CDK4/6 inhibitors | Dr. Brooke Wilson |
| Diane Kim | Creating RectoSync, a pan-Canadian prospective database to determine the right treatment approach for patients with synchronous rectal cancer and liver metastases | Dr. Sean Bennett |
| Claire Norman | Exploring the effects of tertiary lymphoid structures on tumour immune contexture and patient outcomes in NSCLC | Dr. Tricia Cottrell |
| Aryan Shah | Decision between surgery or chemoradiation following neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer | Dr. Andrew Giles |
For further information on the papers from Queen’s University
University of Toronto
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Saba Aslani | Psilocybin-assisted Existential, Attachment, and Relational (PEARL) therapy | Dr. Daniel Rosenbaum Dr. Sarah Hales |
| David Chen | Development of a flow-based biomarker panel to capture hierarchy classification in AML | Dr. John Dick |
| Lintao Hu | Standardizing suicide risk assessment and intervention using quality improvement methodology | Dr. Tara Burra |
| Sanchit Kaushal | Patterns and outcomes of care in testicular cancer | Dr. Robert J. Hamilton |
| Sophia Zahra Massin | Novel Electrocardiographic (ECG) risk markers of sudden death to improve patient selection for implantable defibrillator therapy | Dr. Vijan S. Chauhan |
| Eleanore Louise Musick | Clinical relevance of ABL1 kinase domain mutation beyond BCR:ABL1 gene rearrangement on the treatment outcomes in CML | Dr. Dennis Kim |
| Justin Rao | Bridging the gap between diagnosis of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and prevention and/or early treatment of cardiovascular disease: a knowledge translation project | Dr. Karen Fleming |
| Ashar Siddiqui | Retrospective review of patients treated with definitive radiotherapy for head and neck paragangliomas | Dr. Hanbo Chen |
| Umair Tahir | Psychosocial Predictors of Response to Tele-CBT for patients Post Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery | Dr. Sanjeev Sockalingam |
| Rose Yakubov | Quantifying osteosarcopenia temporal progression using imaging-based biomarkers in young age prostate cancer patients | Dr. Michael Hardisty |
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McMaster University
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Hargun Kaur | Gender disparities in Canadian Institutes of Health Research grant funding for cardiovascular research: a retrospective analysis | Dr. William McIntyre |
| Simon Pan | Incidence of thrombosis and coagulopathy in patients receiving CAR T cell therapy: a multicentric retrospective analysis of the Canadian experience | Dr. Amaris Balitsky |
| Ghazal Razeghi | Effect of colchicine in patients with and without coronary artery disease undergoing non-cardiac surgery | Dr. David Conen |
| Kassie Rong | QT-prolonging medications and major adverse cardiac events | Dr. Ann Holbrook |
| Aadithya Udays Shankar | Determining the true incidence of atrial fibrillation before and after lung resection | Dr. William McIntyre |
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University of Western Ontario
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Christian Neira Agonh | Assessing for demoral artery risk factors for transcatheter aortic valve risk factors using computed tomography scans | Dr. Patrick Teefy |
| Maryam S. Othman | Needs assessment for community pediatric mental health resources | Dr. Firas Al-Khaher |
| Mihir Pandya | Preventing Discharge to No Fixed Address – Youth (NFA-Y) and P2PEP | Dr. Cheryl Forchuk |
| Masong Anthony Luginaah | Patient reported outcomes of Clinical Trials Navigator Program | Dr. Caroline Hamm |
| Olivia Sanders | Cumulative impact of immunotherapy on long-term outcomes in head and neck cancer | Dr. Daniella MacNeil |
| Sami Ul Haq | Developing a machine learning approach to detect malignant lymph nodes by ultrasound at the time of gross examination | Dr. Matthew Cecchini |
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Northern Ontario School of Medicine University
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Cassandra Fenlon | Biomarkers in colorectal cancer in clinical practice — Availability, use and influence of molecular biomarkers on therapeutic decisions and on cancer outcomes in colorectal carcinoma patients | Dr. Ioannis Voutsadakis |
| Hannah Shortreed | Investigating the immunotherapy potential of PARP inhibitors | Dr. Olexiy Aseyev |
| Luc Couture | Blood immune profile as a tool for neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy treatment success in breast cancer patients | Dr. Hoang-Thanh Le |
| Melissa Yeo | Colorectal cancer in patients over 80 years old: Characteristics and treatment | Dr. Ioannis Voutsadakis |
| Meredith Charbonneau | Assessing implementation and effectiveness of community of practice ketamine-assisted therapy (CoP-KaT) to address healthcare worker burnout in rural northern Ontario | Dr. Ryan Patchett-Marble |
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University of Saskatchewan
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Ami Li | Differences in in-hospital management and outcomes of patients with acute heart failure: A Saskatchewan population-based retrospective cohort study | Dr. Andrea Lavoie |
| Chase Ellingson | Seismocardiogram-derived hemodynamics in patients presenting to the cardiac catheterization laboratory | Dr. Payam Oehghani |
| Lorynn Labbie | Canadian aortopathy and connective tissues disorder (can-act) registry | Dr. Tim Bradley |
| Saidee Fooks | The effect of attending cardiac rehabilitation on quality of life in patients receiving transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) | Dr. Janine Eckstein |
| Sonya Mannala | Role of individualized intervention(s) on quality of life and adherence to adjuvant endocrine therapy in premenopausal women with early-stage breast cancer: My Choice study | Dr. Shahid Ahmed |
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University of Alberta
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Gurleen Kaur Gill | Cross-cultural adaptation and evaluation of elementary mental health literacy resource (EMHLR) modules in Ugandan educational settings: a mixed-methods study | Dr. Yifeng Wei |
| Iman Kassan | Mental health considerations in rheumatology: identifying and supporting vasculitis patients at risk | Dr. Elaine Acyshyn |
| Irizelle Lategan | A study to quantify radiation induced muscle loss following pelvic radiotherapy | Dr. Kurian Joseph |
| Robert Pap | Milrinone for vasospasm in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage: a scoping review | Dr. Fernando Zampieri |
| Kaya Lutchmi Persad | Prenatal predictors of neonatal outcomes in fetal lung hypoplasia | Dr. Lisa Hornberger |
| William Rioux | “Voice-Op” virtual harm reduction operator attitudes and perspectives | Dr. Sumantra Ghosh |
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University of Calgary
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Janeen Derochie | Evaluating superficial vein thrombosis (SVT) management in pregnancy and the postpartum period | Dr. Leslie Skeith |
| Eddie Guo | Development and use of a novel large language model (LLM) for the management of terminal brain cancers | Dr. Garnette Sutherland |
| Sarika Haque | Real-world study of patient selection for lobectomy versus completion | Dr. Sana Ghaznavi |
| Chaten Jessel | Development of timing and patient selection standards for pharmacogenetic testing in psychiatry using a modified Delphi consensus process | Dr. Chad Bousman |
| Vaneeza Moosa | Bicuspid aortic valve – wall sheer stress analysis | Dr. Julio Garcia Flores |
| Braxton Phillips | Exploring heterogeneity of depression and anxiety in multiple sclerosis | Dr. Scott Patten |
| Chantal Rytz | Impact of gender-affirming estrogen therapy on endothelial function in transgender women | Dr. Sofia Ahmed |
| Andrew Tran | Real-world efficacy and safety outcomes of immunotherapy in patients with solid tumours | Dr. Vishal Navani |
| George Tadros | Cognition and cerebral oxygenation in long-COVID postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome patients | Dr. Satish Raj |
| Aryan Zawari | Real-world efficacy and safety outcomes of immunotherapy in patients with solid tumours | Dr. Zelma Kiss |
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University of British Columbia
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Kevin An | Improving positive predictive values of MRI prostate PI-RADS scores and avoiding unnecessary biopsies | Dr. Silvia Chang |
| Laura Best | Exploring the indirect consequences of COVID-19 on children and youth in Canada: A qualitative study to improve pediatric mental health outcomes | Dr. Matthew Carwana |
| Roberto Fedrigo | A retrospective observational study assessing treatment attrition between lines of therapy and its impact on receipt of therapy and outcomes for well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumours in British Columbia | Dr. Jonathan Loree |
| Morris Huang | Rapid identification of actionable gene mutations in patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia using targeted long-read sequencing | Dr. Eric McGinnis |
| Michelle Ling | Education in childhood and adolescent neuro-oncology survivors | Dr. Meera Rayar |
| Gracie Li-Ting-Wai | Understanding barriers and facilitators to implementation of the paramedic palliative pathway in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside | Dr. Rachel Carter |
| Hong Lu | Targeting RNA-splicing to rescue deficits arising from Neuropsychiatric-associated heterozygous deletion of neurexin-1 | Dr. Ann Marie Craig |
| Jacob Stubbs | Brain atrophy and mortality among individuals living in homelessness or precarious housing | Dr. William Honer |
| Nan Hui Susan Yao | The effects of Helicobacter pylori on the evolution of intestinal metaplasia to gastric cancer | Dr. Isabella Tai |
| Danlin Zeng | GHI Nepal sexual and reproductive health project — Quantifying the impact of UBC’s sexual and reproductive health (SRH) program on adolescent girls in Nepal | Dr. Videsh Kapoor |
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