CIHR Project Grant Recipients (Fall 2025)

For nearly sixty years, healing driven research has flourished within the walls of the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM), consistently positioning the Institute at the forefront of biomedical innovation. It is in this spirit that the IRCM proudly congratulates its researchers who were awarded a Project Grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) in the Fall 2025 competition. These investments will help advance major research initiatives that touch on several critical dimensions of public health. Thanks to the excellence of their work, they have secured close to $6.4M in funding with a success rate of 33%, which is almost 2.5 times higher than the national rate (13.6%).

• Dr Frédéric Charron
  Project: The physiological, molecular and genetic mechanisms underlying lateralization of motor control

Dr. Charron is also co-recipient of a Project grant with Drs. Vijay Ramaswamy of the SickKids in Toronto (host institution) and Livia Garzia of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, all three of whom are Principal Investigators for their project: Targeting Gene Fusions in Pediatric Brain Tumours: A Personalized Medicine Approach.

• Dr Jean François Côté
  Project: Decoding the Global RAS Interactome: From Uncharted Functions to Cancer Therapeutic Targets

• Dre Marie Kmita
  Projetc: Hox pioneering activity in development and disease

• Dre Nathalie Labrecque
  Project: Role of the NR4A and bZIP transcription factor families during CD8+ T cell response

• Dre Marlene Oeffinger
  Project: Determining regulatory mechanisms of nucleolar and ribosomal DNA stress

Furthermore, we would like to highlight the Priority Announcement grant awarded to Drs. Jane Yardley of the IRCM, Anne-Sophie Brazeau of McGill University (host institution), and Sylvain Iceta of the Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie of Université Laval, all three principal investigators for their project: EASE the Burden: Empowering People With Type 1 Diabetes, Their Loved Ones, and Healthcare Providers to Address Disordered Eating. Dr. Rémi Rabasa-Lhoret of the IRCM is also involved in this project as a Co-investigator.

The IRCM applauds the efforts of all its researchers who submitted grant applications and extends its warmest thanks to all those who reviewed their colleagues' funding applications as part of the internal review process. We also extend our sincere thanks to CIHR.