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(Last update: January 25th, 2007)

Current Grants


CURRENT GRANTS

Agency/Program:

Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance (CBCRA), Research Grant

Project Title:

Development of a combined 3D ultrasound and sterotactic mammography-guided breast biopsy system
Project Role:

Principal Investigator, Co-investigator: D Downey
Amount:

$318,000
For the Period:

July 1, 2004 ‚Çô June 30, 2007
Agency/Program:

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
Project Title:

3D Transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy
Project Role:

Principal Investigator, Co-investigators: D Downey, J Chin
Amount:

$238,359

For the Period:

April 1, 2004 ‚Çô March 31, 2007
Agency/Program:

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
Project Title:

3D ultrasound-guided and robotic-aided prostate brachytherapy
Project Role:

Principal Investigator, Co-Investigators: D Downey, J Chin, V Venkatesan
Amount:

$564,940
For the Period:
 April 1, 2003 ‚Çô March 31, 2008
Agency/Program:

CIHR / HSF, Strategic Training Program
Project Title:

Vascular and cerebrovascular transdiscipinary training program (vcTTP): Integrated training in genetics, biology, mathematics, physics and engineering towards an understanding and prevention of vascular and cerebrovascular disease.
Project Role:

Principal Investigator, Co-Investigators: C Ellis, R Hegele, M Huff, G Pickering
Amount:

$1,362,500
For the Period:

2001-2007
Agency/Program:

LRCP; Small grants for research and training
Project Title:

Correlation of 3D ultrasound imaging and plasma osteopontin levels with tumour response in women receiving neoadjuvant treatment for locally advanced breast cancer.
Project Role: Co-Investigator with Chambers A, Potvin K, Fortier M + Brackstone, M (PI)
Amount:

$24,960

For the Period:

2006-2007
Agency/Program:

Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance (CBCRA), IDEA Grant
Project Title:

3D ultrasound imaging in interstitial brachytherapy for breast cancer
Project Role:

Co-investigator with Luc Beaulieu (PI)
Amount:

$50,000
For the Period:

2006-2007
Agency/Program:

Heart and Stroke Foundation (HSF), Grant-in-Aid
Project Title:

3D ultrasound phenotypes of atheroslcerosis
Project Role:

Co-investigator with Parraga, House, and Spence (PI)
Amount:

$1,957,908

For the Period:

2002-2005
Agency/Program:

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Randomized Clinical Trial
Project Title:

Subclinical hypothyroidism and carotid atherosclerosis
Project Role:

Co-investigator with Parraga, House, Lee, Spence (PI)
Amount:

$451,000
For the Period:

Apr 1, 2006 ‚Çô Mar 31, 2009
Agency/Program:

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
Project Title:

Micro- and molecular imaging for preclinical trials in genetically engineered mouse prostate cancer models
Project Role:

Co-investigator with Lacefield, Bauman, Chin, Zabel, Driedger, Izawa, Moussa, Xuan (PI)
Amount:

$114,554 / year

For the Period:

Oct 1, 2005 ‚Çô Mar 31, 2008
Agency/Program:

NSERC VAPP ‚Çô funding BME Graduate Students
Project Title:

Organ simulation for image-guided surgery
Project Role:

Co-Investigator with H Ladak & D Steinman; PI: T Peters
Amount:

$285,900
For the Period:

Apr 1, 2004 ‚Çô Mar 31, 2007
Agency/Program:

Canadian Institutes of Health Research Strategic Training Program
Project Title:

London Strategic Training Initiative and Technology Transfer
Project Role:

Co-Investigator, PI: J. Koropatnick with 40 investigators
Amount:

$300,000/yr

For the Period:

2003-2009
Agency/Program:

Ontario Research and Development Challenge Fund
Project Title:

Ontario Consortium for Small Animal Imaging
Project Role:

Co-Investigator with R Cihrakal, P Foster, R Henkelman, D Holdsworth, T Lee, C Nahmias, B Rutt, J Valliant; PI: S Foster
Amount:

$3,295,050/5 years

Fenster‚ÇÖs component: $551,000/5 years

For the Period:

2002-2007
Agency/Program:

Ontario Research and Development Challenge Fund
Project Title:

Ontario Consortium of Image Guided Therapy and Surgery
Project Role:

Co-Investigator with D Holdsworth, R Menon, I Cunningham, W Kucharczyk, T Peters, and 9 others; PI: M Sherar
Amount: $5,614,500/yr. 

Fenster‚ÇÖs component: 2001-2002: $200,000
For the Period:

2000-2007

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