Grant: Early Career Investigator Awards - Airway Inflammation and Remodeling
University of British Columbia
$144,722.00
An 'Omics Approach to Understanding COPD Phenotypes and Endotypes
FY 2017-18
Summary
Smoking causes lung disease, but it has different effects on different people. Because of this, some treatments may work for some people but not for others. To figure out what makes one person's lung disease different from another's, we will scrape their airways and investigate the cells for signs of injury. Some people may have different bugs in their airways which leads to injury in their cells. Other people may have different responses in their cells to things like cigarette smoke. These clues may help us develop new drugs that can target lung disease in each person individually.
Department
Program
Early Career Investigator Awards - Airway Inflammation and Remodeling
Recipient
Location
British Columbia, Canada
Recipient Type
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
CIHR Funding Decisions Database
As published
Id
373157
Name
Leung Janice
Region
British Columbia
Country
Canada
Orgtype
Institution Paid; Research Institution
Partnername
AstraZeneca Canada Inc.
Instname2
Circulatory and Respiratory Health
Theme2
Clinical
Prcname2
Early Career Investigator Awards (clinician)
Projecttitle
An 'Omics Approach to Understanding COPD Phenotypes and Endotypes
Programtype2
Salary Programs
Orgnameinp2
University of British Columbia
Cihramount2
$144,722
Cihrequipment2
$0
Programname2
Early Career Investigator Awards - Airway Inflammation and Remodeling
Keyworddelim
Airway Epithelium; Copd; Gene Expression; Methylation; Microbiome
Abstract
Smoking causes lung disease, but it has different effects on different people. Because of this, some treatments may work for some people but not for others. To figure out what makes one person's lung disease different from another's, we will scrape their airways and investigate the cells for signs of injury. Some people may have different bugs in their airways which leads to injury in their cells. Other people may have different responses in their cells to things like cigarette smoke. These clues may help us develop new drugs that can target lung disease in each person individually.
Competitiondate
201709
Approvedterm2
3 yrs 0 mth
Pinamesdelim
Leung, Janice
Approvedterm
3 ans 0 mois
Cihrcontribution2
Inst of Circ &Respiratory Hlth~ $144,722~ $0~
