Past Venture Grants
Dr. Jagbir Gill
Medical Director, Kidney Transplant Program, Providence Health Care
Dr. James Lan
Director, Immunology Laboratory, Vancouver General Hospital
Dr. Mypinder Sekhon
Intensive care physician and neurointensivist, Vancouver General Hospital
Dr. Christopher Nguan
Urologic surgery specialist, Vancouver General Hospital
Dr. Kathryn Armstrong
Investigator and pediatric cardiologist, BC Children’s Hospital
Dr. David Harriman
Investigator and kidney transplant surgeon, Vancouver General Hospital
Urine Microbiome Profiling in Kidney Transplant Recipients in Health and Disease
Dr. Caigan Du
Scientist, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute
Evaluation of propyl gallate for limitation of cold ischemic injury in organ preservation
Dr. Alice Virani
Executive Director of Ethics, Provincial Health Service Authority
Dr. Kathryn Armstrong
Investigator and Pediatric Cardiologist, BC Children’s Hospital
VEXT: An 8-week Virtual Exercise and Texting Program for Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Patients
Dr. Jonathan Choy
Transplant Immunology and Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University
The role of IL-17 receptor A in transplant rejection
Dr. Tom Blydt-Hansen
Director, Pediatric Multi Organ Transplant Program, BC Children’s Hospital
Dr. Kathryn Armstrong
Investigator and pediatric cardiologist, BC Children’s Hospital
Dr. Caren Rose
Biostatistician and epidemiologist, BC Center for Disease Control
Examining the Impact of Overdose Deaths on Solid Organ Transplantation
Dr. Mercedeh Kiaii
Medical Director, Hemodialysis Unit and Vascular Access Services, St Paul’s Hospital
Dr. David Granville
Principal investigator, International Collaboration On Repair Discoveries (ICORD)
Granzyme K in Allograft Vasculopathy and Expression in Cardiac Tissue
Dr. John Boyd
Intensivist, St. Paul’s Hospital
Dr. Tom Blydt-Hansen
Director, Pediatric Multi Organ Transplant Program, BC Children’s Hospital
Quality of Life and Mental Health Needs of Children After Solid Organ Transplantation in BC
Dr. Kevin Harris
Academic pediatric cardiologist, BC Children’s Hospital
Early Detection of Artery Thickening in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients
Dr. Amee Manges
Molecular epidemiologist, BC Center for Disease Control
Treating Multidrug Resistant Infections in Transplant Recipients with Fecal Microbiota Transplants
Dr. Sam Wiseman
Thyroid/parathyroid surgeon, St. Paul’s Hospital; Director of Research, Department of Surgery Providence Research
Dr. John Gill
Transplant nephrologist, St. Paul’s Hospital
Integrating Registration for Organ Donation into Routine Health Care Encounters
Dr. Christopher Nguan
Urologic surgery specialist, Vancouver General Hospital
Dr. Caigan Du
Scientist, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute
A novel flush/preservation solution for cold preservation of donor organs for transplantation
Dr. Jan Dutz
Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital; Head, Department of Dermatology and Skin Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
Dr. Aziz Ghahary
Retired, previously professor and director of the Burn and Wound Healing Research Group, University of British Columbia, Canada
A Novel Tolerance Induction Strategy for Allotransplantation
Dr. Garth Warnock
Professor emeritus of surgery, University of British Columbia
Use of Naturally Immune Privileged Cells in Islet Transplantation
Dr. Bruce McManus
Professor Emeritus, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UBC Centre for Heart Lung Innovation (HLI); CEO, Prevention of Organ Failure Centre of Excellence (PROOF Centre)
McManus Clinical Implementation of Diagnostic Biomarker Assays in Heart and Kidney Transplantation (BiT3)
Dr. Olwyn Johnston
Transplant nephrologist, Vancouver General Hospital
Quality of Life After Living Kidney Donation: No-directed Versus Directed Donor
Dr. David Granville
Principal investigator, International Collaboration On Repair Discoveries (ICORD)
Granzymes in allograft vasculopathy
Dr. Megan Levings
Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital
Tailoring Tregs: A Novel Approach to Generate Alloantigen Specific T Cells
Dr. David Granville
Principal investigator, International Collaboration On Repair Discoveries (ICORD)
Granzymes in allograft vasculopathy
Dr. Jonathan Choy
Transplant Immunology and Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University
Role of Bim in heart transplant rejection
Dr. Julian Christians
Affiliate Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital
Identification of novel targets for intervention in Aspergillus infections