Development / Innovative Grant

The Development/Innovative Grant supports health researchers working on initiatives considered to be innovative or in development as they prepare their projects for submission to targeted peer review funding competitions.

Development Grant Search

Project: Developing an evaluation framework for prescription monitoring programs in Canada
Dr. Mark Asbridge
Dalhousie University
RNS Funding Contribution: $14,200
Key Words: community health, epidemiology, health, prescription monitoring

Project: Development and validation of a three-dimensional culture system for modeling the prostate cancer microenvironment
Dr. John Frampton
Dalhousie University
RNS Funding Contribution: $14,986
Key Words: biomedical, engineering, prostate cancer

Project: The impact of whole body vibrations on the developing embryo
Dr. Tamara Franz-Odendaal
Mount Saint Vincent University (MSVU)
RNS Funding Contribution: $15,000
Key Words: biology, developing embryo

Project: Validation of a comprehensive assessment of media use by preschool-aged children in Nova Scotia
Elizabeth Harvey
Université Sainte-Anne
RNS Funding Contribution: $149,755.22
Key Words: educational services, media use, preschool-aged children

Project: Paging Dr. Google: Availability and Reliability of Online Evidence-Based Treatment Information about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Dr. Sara King
Mount Saint Vincent University (MSVU)
RNS Funding Contribution: $15,000
Key Words: education, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD

Project: Examining victims’ needs in the forensic mental health context
Dr. Jamie Livingston
Saint Mary’s University (SMU)
RNS Funding Contribution: $15,000
Key Words: criminology, mental health

Project: Establishing a current state assessment of healthy eating practices across early learning environments: A foundation to mobilize knowledge-to-action
Dr. Jesse-Lee McIsaac
Mount Saint Vincent University (MSVU)
RNS Funding Contribution: $14,854
Key Words: education, child and youth study, health eating, early learning

Project: Current Management and Health Care Quality for Patients with Knee and Hip Osteoarthritis
Rebecca Moyer
Dalhousie University
RNS Funding Contribution: $15,000
Key Words: physiotherapy, health care, osteoarthritis

Project: Uncovering the mechanisms by which aerobic fitness mitigates stress-induced cognitive decline
Dr. Heather Neyedli
Dalhousie University
RNS Funding Contribution: $15,000
Key Words: health, human performance, fitness, stress, cognitive-decline

Project: Developing on-cell nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to characterize ligand-receptor interactions
Dr. Jan Rainey
Dalhousie University
RNS Funding Contribution: $15,000
Key Words: biochemistry, molecular biology, nuclear magnetic resonance

Project: Digital Point-of-Care Clinical Documentation in a Busy Emergency Department: An AI based Dictaphone using Intelligent Speech Recognition
Dr. Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
Dalhousie University
RNS Funding Contribution: $15,000
Key Words: computer science, point-of-care, emergency department, AI, dictaphone

Project: Chemerin as a Mediator of the Obesity- Breast Cancer Linkage
Dr. Christopher Sinal
Dalhousie University
RNS Funding Contribution: $15,000
Key Words: pharmacology, obesity, breast cancer

Project: Quantification of neuronal activity and transcription to identify uncoupled neuronal clusters to determine etiology of neuropsychiatric disorders
Dr. Deniz Top
Dalhousie University
RNS Funding Contribution: $15,000
Key Words: pediatrics, neuropsychiatric disorders