Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) awarded VCHRI Investigators operating grants and trainee awards worth over $4.3 million dollars from the March 2008 Competitions, announced in July 2008.

Dr. Vincent Duronio, Centre for Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, received $100,000 for one year for his work on Mcl-1: Cell cycle regulatory properties.

Dr. Karim Miran-Khan, Centre for Hip Health & Mobility, and Dr.Vincent Duronio, Centre for Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, received a one-year award of $50,000 for their studies of apoptosis and age-related tendon degeneration.

For more details, please visit VCHRI Success at CIHR.