Grant: Environments, Genes and Chronic Disease - LOI
University of British Columbia
$0.00
Programmatic research to understand how modifiable environmental factors interact with the genome in the development of asthma.
FY 2014-15
Summary
Lungs are for life. Unfortunately, the most frequent long-term illness in children and babies is asthma. And asthma that begins in childhood is often a life-long problem. Sadly, asthma is very common. As many as 1-in-3 Canadians will be diagnosed with asthma in their lifetime. In asthma the breathing passages (airways) become red, swollen and "twitchy" so they sometimes go into spasm making it very hard to breath. Asthma has no cure. Even if they feel fine, people with asthma still have the disease and it can flare up at any time.
It isn't clear why some people get asthma and others don't, but it's probably due to a combination of environmental and genetic (inherited) factors. The goal of this research program is to understand these environmental and genetic factors that cause asthma. This new understanding is expected to give us better tools to predict who will get asthma and to develop ways to prevent asthma developing in the first place.
Department
Program
Environments, Genes and Chronic Disease - LOI
Recipient
Location
British Columbia, Canada
Recipient Type
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
CIHR Funding Decisions Database
As published
Id
324095
Name
Turvey Stuart E
Region
British Columbia
Country
Canada
Orgtype
Institution Paid; Research Institution
Instname2
Genetics
Theme2
Biomedical
Prcname2
Environments, Genes and Chronic Disease - LOI
Projecttitle
Programmatic research to understand how modifiable environmental factors interact with the genome in the development of asthma.
Programtype2
Operating Grants
Orgnameinp2
University of British Columbia
Cihramount2
$0
Cihrequipment2
$0
Programname2
Environments, Genes and Chronic Disease - LOI
Keyworddelim
Air Pollution; Asthma; Breastfeeding; Environment; Epigenetics; Green Space; Microbiome; Socioeconomic Status; Stress; Urban Form
Abstract
Lungs are for life. Unfortunately, the most frequent long-term illness in children and babies is asthma. And asthma that begins in childhood is often a life-long problem. Sadly, asthma is very common. As many as 1-in-3 Canadians will be diagnosed with asthma in their lifetime. In asthma the breathing passages (airways) become red, swollen and "twitchy" so they sometimes go into spasm making it very hard to breath. Asthma has no cure. Even if they feel fine, people with asthma still have the disease and it can flare up at any time.
It isn't clear why some people get asthma and others don't, but it's probably due to a combination of environmental and genetic (inherited) factors. The goal of this research program is to understand these environmental and genetic factors that cause asthma. This new understanding is expected to give us better tools to predict who will get asthma and to develop ways to prevent asthma developing in the first place.
Competitiondate
201501
Approvedterm2
0 yr 6 mths
Pinamesdelim
Turvey, Stuart E; Brook, Jeffrey R; Kobor, Michael S
Approvedterm
0 an 6 mois
