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.
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