Archive
December 2009
Rebecca Pillai Riddell has been selected as one of the 2010 winners of the CPA President's New Researcher Award. This award recognizes the exceptional quality of work as a new researcher in psychology in Canada.
October 2009
Karen Fergus has been awarded $457,084 from the Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance/Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Special Research Competition on Psychosocial Aspects of Breast Cancer, for her project titled “A multisite randomized controlled trial of couplelinks.ca: the first online intervention for young women with breast cancer and their male partners”.
Christine Jonas-Simpson has been awarded $2,500 from Nursing Care Partnership (NCP) funding for her Research-Based Documentary on Obstetrical and Neonatal Nurses’ Experiences of Grieving: Personal and Professional Impact.
September 2009
Chris L. Ardern has been awarded $102,936 from the Public Health Agency of Canada, under the Enhanced Surveillance for Chronic Disease Funding Program, for his project titled “Development of a Spatial Framework to Enhance Chronic Disease Surveillance”.
Patricia Bradley and Mina Singh have been awarded $703,625 for their project titled "Test for Success: Multifaceted program to promote internationally educated nurse success on the Canadian Registered Nurse Exam" from the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration."
August 2009
Rolando Ceddia has received $100,000 in funds through the Ontario government’s Early Researcher Awards program for his project titled "Regulation of metabolic partitioning and whole-body energy homeostasis by AMPK."
Rebecca Pillai Riddell has been awarded $100,000 in funds through the Ontario government’s Early Researcher Awards program for her project titled "Suffer the Little Children: Understanding the Development of Infant Pain Reactivity."
Mary Fox has received $50,000 from CIHR for her project titled "Phase I of an early rehabilitation program to prevent functional decline in older adults with complex chronic disease during hospitalization."
July 2009
Mike Vesia: York PhD candidate in Kinesiology was the award winner for the 2009 Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Synapse Mentorship Award worth $5,000 for his “Brain Day” project. Vesia and Portage Trail Middle School teacher Valeria Cuda both designed Brain Day. Vesia who used Portage Trail to promote health research as a career option helped co-organize and implement Career days at the middle school. Brain Day gave students the chance to visit York’s laboratories; providing students with hands-on training; by observing and participating in experiments.
David Regan is a co-applicant on a successful CIHR Operating Grant held by the University of British Columbia. The project titled, "Predicting occlusion therapy outcomes for children with amblyopia" has been awarded $220,271 over 3 years.
Doug Crawford has been awarded $750,850 over 5 years from CIHR for his projected titled "Mechanisms for eye-hand coordination in the human."
June 2009
Will Gage has received $5000 from CIHR for his project titled "Lateral balance and mobility after knee replacement surgery."
Jason Vescovi has received a National Strength and Conditioning Association Young Investigator Grant of $15,000 titled "Time-motion characteristics of professional women’s soccer players."
Michael Riddell has been awarded one year of funding totalling $40,820 by the Canadian Diabetes Association for his proposal "Effects of regular exercise on the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and peripheral glucocorticoid action in type 2 diabetes: A novel hypothesis on the prevention of diabetes development."
Christine Jonas-Simpson has been awarded $5000.00 from the AWHONN Canada Small Grants Program for her project titled "Research-based Documentary on Obstetrical and Neonatal Nurses’ Experiences of Grieving: Professional and Personal Impact."
May 2009
James Bebko has received $225,000 from the Counselling Foundation of Canada for his project titled "Peer to Peer Mentoring Program for Students with Asperger Syndrome."
Deborah Tregunno has been awarded a Nursing Senior Career Research Award by The Nursing Secretariat of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. This award is for approximately $100,000 a year for three years.
Shayna Rosenbaum has received a CIHR operating grant of $568,445 titled "Patient and neuroimaging studies of mental state representations."
Laurie Wilcox was awarded $88,693 from CIHR for her operating grant entitled "The role of coarse stereopsis in typical and atypical visual development."
Frances Wilkinson was awarded a CIHR operating grant of $89,979 titled "Migraine and the Visual System: Cortical and Pre-cortical Mechanisms."
Jason Vescovi has received the 2009-10 Ontario Council on Graduate Studies Postdoctoral Ontario Women's Health Scholar Award for his project titled "Effects of acute aerobic exercise on the pharmacokinetics of the transdermal patch in premenopausal physical active women." The project has been awarded $40,000.
Debra Pepler has been awarded $15,000 from MITACS/Accelerate Ontario Industrial Research & Development Internship Program for her project titled "Standing up to Bullying."
Richard Murray has received $15,000 MITACS for operations and logistical costs related to conducting the York Centre for Vision Research Vision Science Summer School.
Christine Maheu was awarded $10,000 from the Centre for Urban Health Initiatives for her project "Understanding and Improving Breast Cancer Self-Management through Social Networks and Infrastructures within Portuguese-Speaking Communities in Toronto: A Pilot Study."
April 2009
Yvonne Bohr in partnership with the Aisling Discoveries Child and Family Centre, has been awarded $11,650 from CERIS for her project "Parent-Infant Separation in Trans-national Families: Risk, Resilience and the Needs of Young Immigrant Parents."
Peter Tsasis has received $67,197 from SSHRC for his project titled "Developing a health system-level balanced scorecard." Co-investigators from York on the study include Mary Wiktorowicz, John M. Parkinson, Marcela Porporato and Ellen Schraa.
Maggie Toplak was awarded $98,117 from SSHRC for her project titled "Cognitive sophistication in rational thinking: Development and dissociations with cognitive abilities."
Jennifer Steele has received $95,500 from SSHRC for her project titled "The emergence and universality of implicit racial bias in children."
Alberta Pos has received $125,575 from SSHRC for her project titled "Emotional Processing differences for Depressive Subgroups During Experiential Psychotherapy."
Michael Pettit was awarded $39,721 from SSHRC for his project titled "The Sex Lives of Animals in the Age of Kinsey."
Christopher Green has received $48,000 from SSHRC for his project titled "Early American Psychology and Its Cities."
Gordon Flett was awarded $120,779 from SSHRC for his research project titled "Perfectionism and Social Comparison Orientation in Health and Mental Health Outcomes."
Robert Cribbie has received $74,957 from SSHRC for his research project titled "Equivalence Tests for Behavioural Science Research."
Lynne Angus is a co-applicant on a successful SSHRC research grant held by Simon Fraser University. Co-applicants on the project titled, "The language of depression: A linguistic analysis of client autobiographical narratives in psychotherapy," are Peter Muntigl and Adam Horvath. The project has been awarded $119,243.
David Wiesenthal is a co-applicant on a successful SSHRC research grant held by Simon Fraser University. Co-applicants on the project titled, "Examination of effects of automobile advertisements and racing video games on street racing and other risky driving behaviours," are Evelyn Vingilis and Robert Mann. The project has been awarded $94,130.
Denise Henriques was awarded $110,000 over five years from NSERC for her research project titled "Neural representations of spatial information in sensorimotor control."
Mazen Hamadeh has received $20,000 from NSERC for his research project titled "The role of exercise and antioxidants in modulating oxidative stress: adaptation vs. pathology."
Ola Adegoke was awarded $100,000 over five years from NSERC for his research project titled "Mechanism of nutritional regulation of protein metabolism in skeletal muscle."
Olivier Birot has received a NSERC RTI award in the amount of $63,708 for his project "Acquisition of complete imaging workstation for chemiluminescent and fluorescent analysis of gels and blots." Co-investigators on the study are Tara Haas, Mazen Hamadeh and Olasunkanmi Adegoke.
Adrienne Perry was awarded $30,000 from Kerry's Place Autism Services for her project titled "Integrating Research and Practice Towards Best Practice Guidelines in ASD." James Bebko is Co-investigator on the study.
Adrienne Perry and a team of researchers have received $323,526 from CIHR for their research project titled "GO4KIDDS: Great Outcomes for Kids Impacted by Severe Developmental Disabilities and their Families." Co-investigators from York on the study include James Bebko and Jonathan Weiss.
Gord Flett and Jennifer Connolly have both been successful in receiving two Social Innovation in York Region Project Development Grants through York's Knowledge Mobilization Unit. Each project has been awarded $30,000.
Mina Singh and Beryl Pilkington along with a team of researchers from the Black Creek Community Health Centre and the Working Women Community Centre are Co-investigators on a successful project funded by the Department of Canadian Heritage. The project is titled "Inclusive Mosaic: Mentorship in Nursing and Health Care" and will receive $165,592 over three years.
Denise Henriques was awarded $50,250 from the J P Bickell Foundation for her project "Parkinson Disease: Deficits in Integrating Visual and Proprioceptive Information".
March 2009
Mary Fox and a team of researchers from York, Ryerson, UHN and York Central Hospital have received $100,000 from CIHR for their research project entitled "Systematic review of acute care hospital geriatric intervention units." Co-investigators from York on the study include Debroah Tregunno, Andrea England, Ilo-Katryn Maimets and Michael Johnny.
February 2009
Denise Henriques has been selected to recieve an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, worth $50,000.
January 2009
Rebecca Pillai Riddell has been selected as the recipient of the Canadian Pain Society's 2009 Early Career Award.
Rose Steele is Co-Principal Investigator on a successful CIHR proposal titled "Charting the Territory: Determining and Documenting Trajectories for Families Where a Child has a Life-Threatening Condition." Led by UBC, the grant is worth about $1.25 million over five years.
2008
Harvey Skinner was awarded $7,500 from CIHR for his project "Building an academic-community partnership for health system performance improvement". Co-investigators on the study are Gordon Flett, Mary Wiktorowicz, Peter Tsasis and Andrea England.
Joel Lexchin and a team of researchers from Canadian universities have received approximately $1.5 million over 5 years as part of a CIHR Emerging Team Grant. Dr. Lexchin is co-principal investigator of the "CIHR/Health Canada Team in Policies for Equitable Access to Medications".
Michaela Hynie was awarded $7,828 from CIHR for her project "Social Inclusion for Health and Well Being in Program Evaluation". Co-investigators on the study are Parissa Safai and Mina Singh.
Mary Fox has received $10,000 from CIHR for her research project titled "Limited physical activity and bed rest in seniors with complex chronic disease."
Mina Singh received $10,000 from CIHR for her project "Aging and Maintenance of Functional Autonomy". Co-investigators on the study are Will Gage, Paul Ritvo, Dina Brooks and Tiziana Rivera.
Rob Muller has received $150,000 from The Provincial Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health at CHEO for his research project titled "The Healthy Coping Program for Maltreated Children."
Hala Tamim's proposal to SSHRC was funded under the Sport Participation Research Initiative. Hala has received $90,000 over three years for her project entitled "Tai Chi for older adults: improving physical and psychological health and identifying and overcoming cultural/ethnic barriers to participation." Co-investigators on the study are Chris Ardern, Joe Baker, and Paul Ritvo.
Mary Fox was selected as a Career Scientist by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Career. She was also awarded funding from CIHR to hold a Cafe Scientifique public discussion on the topic "Can we fail at aging? The successful aging model."
Anne Moore was awarded $54,063 by the Workplace Safety Insurance Board for her project "Assessment Tools for Non-Fixed Work."
Sue Coffey and Charles Anyinam, along with a team of co-investigators in Nursing, submitted a successful proposal to the Health Canada Aboriginal Health Human Resources Initiative. The project is entitled "Aboriginal Nursing Recruitment, Retention, and Support for Career Advancement through Online Mentorship and Learning" and will receive $174,300 in funding over two years.
