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CANFAR awards HIV Innovation Research Grants in four broad areas: basic sciences, clinical, epidemiological, and psycho-social.

In this year’s Innovation Research Grant competition, the grants awarded are $40,000. The research includes all aspects of HIV prevention, treatment and care, and cure. The goal of the $40,000 awards is to stimulate and fund HIV/AIDS related research:

The role of nucleoporins in the innate immune response to HIV – 1

Dr. Lionel Berthoux, Professor, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Improving Black women’s experiences when accessing HIV-related services in Toronto: Critical narrative explorations of race and racism

Dr. Daniel Grace, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Tola Mbulaheni (Student Investigator), PhD Trainee, University of Toronto, Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Developing an Innovative, Youth-Driven and Resilience-Based HIV Prevention Intervention for Young People from Middle Eastern and North African Communities (MENA) in Canada

Dr. Roula Hawa, Assistant Professor, Brescia University College

Optimizing the Equity and Efficiency of Resource Allocation Within the HIV Sector

Dr. Nathan J. Lachowsky, Assistant Professor, School of Public Health and Social Policy, University of Victoria

Dr. Kiffer G. Card, Health Systems Impact Fellow, School of Public Health and Social Policy, University of Victoria

Assessing the Burden of Chronic Comorbidities Focused on the Aging Population Living with HIV in British Columbia

Dr. Viviane Dias Lima,
Research Scientist/Senior Statistician/Associate Professor, University of British Columbia

Characterizing the burden of mental illness among people living with HIV

Dr. Hasina Samji, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University