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GRANTS
Current Grants as PI or co-PI
University of Manitoba – Faculty Research Start-up Funds
Jul-01-2018 – Jun-30-2023
Principal Investigator
Extracellular vesicles in metabolic disease-skeletal muscle communication
Research Manitoba New Investigator Operating Grant
Sep-01-2019 – Mar-31-2023
Principal Investigator
Do extracellular vesicles cause skeletal muscle loss in cancer cachexia?
SSHRC - New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) - Exploration
Mar-29-2019 – Mar-28-2023
Co-Principal Investigator
Reversing frailty through transmission of epigenetic age by extracellular vesicles
Principal Investigators: Meaghan Jones and Ayesha Saleem
Collaborator: Todd Duhamel
US National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Healthy Longevity Global Grand Challenge -
Catalyst Grant
Oct-2020 – Dec-2021
Co-Principal Investigator
Extracellular vesicle (EV)-mediated rescue of immune dysfunction and cognitive decline in aging
Co-Principal Investigators: Hiroshi Yamada, Ayesha Saleem and Noga Ron-Harel
Children’s Hospital Foundation - Innovators
Dec-01-2019 – Nov-30-2022
Principal Investigator
Understanding Baby Talk – deciphering fetal-maternal cross-communication.
CHRIM Operating Grant
Jul-01-2019 – Jun-01-2022
Principal Investigator
Extracellular Vesicles in Prenatal Fetal-Maternal Communication
Co-investigator: Richard Wagner
DREAM Catalyst Grant
Nov-14-2019 – Dec-31-2022
Principal Investigator
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) as predictors of exercise response in obese youth.
Co-Investigator: Martin Sénéchal
Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) – John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF)
June-01-2021 – May-31-2023
Principal Investigator
Extracellular vesicles in health, disease, and DOHaD
Current Grants as Co-I/Co-A
Manitoba Medical Service Foundation (MMSF) Operating Grant
Dec-2020 – Mar-2023
Designing a targeted drug delivery system for beta cells in Type 1 Diabetes
Principal Investigator: Peter Thompson
Co-Applicant: Ayesha Saleem
CIHR Collaborative Health Research Projects (NSERC Partnered)
April-2020 – Mar-2023
3D bioprinting of stem-cell-derived muscle tissue: a physiologically relevant platform for biomedical research, pre-clinical screening and clinical diagnostics
Principal Investigator: Adrian West; Joe Gordon; Vernon Dolinsky
Co-Applicant: Ayesha Saleem; Andrew Halayko
Collaborator: Cheryl Rockman-Greenberg; Sanjiv Dhingra
UCRP, University of Manitoba
Apr-2020 – Mar-2022
3D Bioprinting of Skeletal Muscle to Study Myogenesis and Muscle Metabolism
Principal Applicant: Adrian West
Co-Applicant: Ayesha Saleem and Joe Gordon
Completed
Japanese Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED)
May-25-2020 – Mar-31-2021
Promote healthy aging by targeting immune dysfunction in aged organisms through extracellular vesicles
Principal Investigator: Hiroshi Yamada
Co-Principal Investigators: Ayesha Saleem and Noga Ron-Harel
Japanese Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) – Interstellar Initiative
Oct-28-2019 – Mar-31-2020
Co-Principal Investigator
Promote healthy aging by targeting immune dysfunction in aged organisms through extracellular vesicles
Principal Investigators: Hiroshi Yamada, Ayesha Saleem and Noga Ron-Harel
University Research Grants Program (URGP), University of Manitoba
Jan-22-2019 – Jan-31-2020
Principal Applicant
Establishing an extracellular vesicle isolation protocol from cells in culture
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