The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is Canada's federal funding agency for health research. Composed of 13 Institutes, we collaborate with partners and researchers to support the discoveries and innovations that improve our health and strengthen our health care system.
Congratulations to the recipients of the CIHR Project Grants 2025:
Yves de Koninck, Multi-core tapered single fiber for multi-channel optical interrogation (July 2024), details here
Gabrielle Pagé, Anaïs Lacasse, Hereditary Connective Tissue Disorder: Reviewing existing clinical guidelines and co-constructing the first stage of a patient mapping journey (August 2024), details here.
Céline Gélinas, Caroline Arbour, Marc O Martel, Gabrielle Pagé, David Williamson, Prévalence, facteurs et trajectoires de douleur chronique à la suite d’un séjour aux soins intensifs: Du congé à 12 mois (September 2024), details here
Steve Lacroix, Identifying the role of inflammatory cytokines in pain after nervous system injury (September 2024), details here
Maryse Fortin, Improving disability and back muscle quality in chronic low back pain: A randomized controlled trial with exercise interventions targeted to participants with primary nociceptive pain drivers (September 2024), details here
Yves De Koninck, Marie-Ève Paquet, Cortical GABAergic control in the comorbidity of chronic pain and mood disorders (September 2024), details here
Arlette Kolta, The role of astrocytes in cortical information processing (September 2024), details here
Tomoko Ohyama, Role of Octopamine, a Homologue of Noradrenalin, in Experience-dependent Nociceptive Sensitization (September 2024), details here
Etienne Vachon-Presseau, Luda Diatchenko, Jeffrey S. Mogil, Understanding the spatiotemporal trajectories of pain in Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions (September 2024), details here
Sarah Maheux-Lacroix, Anne Marie Pinard, Facteurs associés à un échec à l’amélioration de la qualité de vie suivant une prise en charge pour endométriose : une étude translationnelle avec analyse qualitative et quantitative (September 2024), details here
Artur Kania, The molecular specification of somatotopic organisation in the rodent spinal cord (September 2024), details here
Mélanie Bérubé, Léonie Archambault, Manon Choinière, Line Guénette, Marc O Martel, Kadija Perreault, Anne Marie Pinard, Michael Verret, Co-Design and Usability Testing of a Sustainable Behavioural Intervention to Optimise Opioid Use Following Traumatic Injuries (September 2024), details here
Michel-Pierre Coll, Jean-Sébastien Roy, Mathieu Roy, Computational modelling of behavior as a window in the mechanisms of chronic pain (September 2024), details here
Michael Verret, Mélanie Bérubé, Optimizing Patient-centred outcomes Using opioid minimization Strategies (OPUS) Pilot Trial (September 2024), details here
Lynn Gauthier, Stéphanie Bernard, Maud Bouffard, Catherine Mercier, Anne Marie Pinard, MI SENS-OR REHAB: Feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effects of a novel, multimodal, Motivational Interviewing-guided somatoSENSory – motOR REHABilitation intervention for chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (September 2024), details here
Mélanie Bérubé, Lynn Gauthier, Line Guénette, Guillaume Léonard, Michael Verret, Selection of Palliative Care Strategies to Improve Pain Management in Frail Older Patients with Hip Fracture by Combining the Evidence and Interested Parties Perspectives (September 2024), details ICI
Mohamed Chahine, New mechanisms linking voltage-gated sodium channels to structural heart disease (September 2024), details here
Philippe Sarret – Brain-Penetrating Apelin Receptor Radioligands for Glioblastoma Therapy (March 2025), details here.
Philippe Sarret – Crossing the blood-brain barrier for delivery of analgesic peptides (March 2025), details here.
Emerson Krock – Regulation of chemotherapy-induced pain by extracellular matrix remodelling in sensory ganglia (march 2025), details here. Emerson Krock – The generation of pain inducing fibromyalgia autoantibodies through cross-reactivity with the gut microbiome (March 2025), details here.
Mélanie Morin – Efficacy of dry needling for reducing pain during intercourse in women with provoked vestibulodynia: A multicenter randomized controlled trial (March 2025), details here.
