Research Support

2022-2027 Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Research Project Grant

  • Sinonasal Microbiota Transplantation for treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis

2022-2024 US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) EZ-BAA

  • Rapid pathogen identification using metagenomic next-generation for detection of respiratory viral pathogens

2019-2024 Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Research Project Grant

  • Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) for intestinal decolonization of multidrug-resistant opportunistic pathogens

2016-2018  Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation & Zvitambo Institute of Maternal and Child Health Research

  • Interventions to modify the intestinal microbiota and improve infant growth and health

2016-2017  Transplant Research Foundation of British Columbia Venture Grant

  •  A prospective, case-series study of fecal microbiota transplantation for the selective decolonization of multidrug-resistant, pathogenic Enterobacteriaceae in renal transplant patients

2015-2017  Medical Research Council (UK)

  • AntiRetroviral Research fOr Watoto (ARROW): Substudy on the impact of cotrimoxazole on the gut flora of HIV-infected children and adolescents

2017-2018  BC Centre for Disease Control Foundation – Blue Sky Grants

  • Resistance gene carriage in children who are randomized to continue versus stop cotrimoxazole prophylaxis (a sub-study of the ARROW Trial)

2015-2016  BC Centre for Disease Control Foundation – Blue Sky Grants

  • Antimicrobial resistance gene detection using metagenomics

2014-2019  Canadian Foundation for Innovation, John R. Evans Leaders Fund

  • Applied genomics and metagenomics for population and public health