Canadian Institutes of Health Research

• Breanna Borys

  Lead investigator

Sources: openalex.org

• Urolithin A Supplementation During Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Patients With COPD

  Collaborator, Phase 2, Not yet recruiting, 198 people, 13 Oct 2026

• Advancing Health Equity and Preventive Cardiovascular Care in Indigenous and Remote Communities: a Mobile Healthcare Unit

  Collaborator, Recruiting, 500 people

• SENSE-Brain Health Pro for Older Adults With Sensory Loss

  Collaborator, Not yet recruiting, 300 people, 5 Oct 2026

• NCT07779746

  Collaborator, Phase 3, Not yet recruiting, 848 people, 21 Aug 2026

• Taurine Supplementation in Adolescents With Post-COVID Condition

  Collaborator, Phase 1/2, Not yet recruiting, 30 people, 2 Jul 2026

• GCAR1, a Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-CELL Therapy for Relapsed/Refractory GPNMB-Expressing Solid Tumours

  Collaborator, Phase 1, Recruiting, 30 people, 22 Dec 2025

• NCT06913647

  Collaborator, Phase 2, Recruiting, 30 people, 6 Apr 2025

• NCT06852391

  Collaborator, Phase 4, Recruiting, 74 people, 28 Feb 2025

• NCT06721949

  Collaborator, Phase 2/3, Recruiting, 300 people, 6 Dec 2024

• NCT06494878

  Collaborator, Phase 3, Recruiting, 8,805 people, 10 Jul 2024

• NCT06439225

  Collaborator, Phase 3, Recruiting, 236 people, 3 Jun 2024

• NCT06326112

  Collaborator, Phase 2, Status unknown, 120 people, 22 Mar 2024

• NCT06217302

  Collaborator, Phase 3, Recruiting, 150 people, 22 Jan 2024

• Fixed Duration vs Continuous Anti-CD38 Antibody Therapy Among Transplant Ineligible Older Adults With Newly-Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma

  Collaborator, Phase 3, Recruiting, 570 people, 27 Dec 2023

• NCT06160778

  Collaborator, Phase 3, Recruiting, 495 people, 7 Dec 2023

• NCT06123715

  Collaborator, Phase 2, Recruiting, 400 people, 9 Nov 2023

• NCT05997693

  Collaborator, Phase 3, Recruiting, 700 people, 18 Aug 2023

• Nicotinamide Chemoprevention for Keratinocyte Carcinoma in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients - Pivotal Trial

  Collaborator, Phase 3, Recruiting, 396 people, 21 Jul 2023

• COLchicine and Thiamine in Heart Failure Due to Ischemic Heart Disease

  Collaborator, Phase 3, Recruiting, 2,500 people, 24 May 2023

• NCT05848713

  Collaborator, Phase 3, Recruiting, 4,000 people, 8 May 2023

Sources: clinicaltrials.gov

• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

  Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship Tri-Council - Doctoral 3 years, Scaling up Production of Pluripotent Stem Cells in Stirred Suspension Bioreactors for Regenerative Medicine, 533681-2018, CA$33.3k, 2021–2022, 1 Apr 2021

Sources: openalex.org

• Sulf1 regulates inflammation via modulation of TGF-β dependent epicardial activation

  PJT-178037, 27 Aug 2026

• Reducing CETP activity prevents memory decline in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model

  PJT-162302, PJT-175306, PJT-186080, PJT 153287, PJT-178210, 3 Aug 2026

• Predicting continuous amyloid PET levels with CSF and plasma brain-derived p-tau217

  RFN 152985 159815 162303, MOP-11-51-31, 1 Aug 2026

• Serum endothelial monocyte-activating polypeptide-II response after 9 h of passive heat exposure: influence of age, diabetes, or hypertension

  399434, 9 Jan 2026

• Cerebellar Purkinje cell firing reduction contributes to aging-related declining motor coordination in mice

  MOP-130570, PJT-153150, Canada Graduate Scholarship, 2 Jan 2026

• Autophagy inhibition in intestinal stem cells favors enteroendocrine cell differentiation through Stat92E activity

  148414, 29 Dec 2025

• The role of aging on endothelial cell-cell junctions and pulmonary microvascular permeability in male mice

  #PRR-177919, #PJT-185943, 1 Dec 2025

• Endocrine enigmas: vascular health in females throughout the lifespan

  Postdoctoral Fellowship, 13 Oct 2025

• Plasma p-tau217 identifies cognitively normal older adults who will develop cognitive impairment in a 10-year window

  1 Feb 2025

• Senescence Defines a Distinct Subset of Myofibroblasts That Orchestrates Immunosuppression in Pancreatic Cancer

  1 Jul 2024

• Mitochondrial Dynamics and Mitophagy in Skeletal Muscle Health and Aging

  MOP-93760, MOV-409262, 30 Jul 2021

• Curcumin and o-Vanillin Exhibit Evidence of Senolytic Activity in Human IVD Cells In Vitro

  CIHR MOP-119564, 29 Mar 2019

• Rehabilitation of Older Adults with Dementia After Hip Fracture

  HOA-80075, OTG-88591, 1 Jan 2016

• Atorvastatin restricts HIV replication in CD4+ T cells by upregulation of p21

  1 Jan 2016

• DNA methylation and healthy human aging

  25 Apr 2015

• Frailty in NHANES: Comparing the frailty index and phenotype

  3 Feb 2015

• A clinical frailty index in aging mice: comparisons with frailty index data in humans

  MOP 126018, 19 Sept 2013

• Timed Up and Go test and risk of falls in older adults: a systematic review

  1 Dec 2011

• Benefits of cognitive dual-task training on balance performance in healthy older adults

  53875, 13 Sept 2010

• Prediction of all-cause dementia using neuropsychological tests within 10 and 5 years of diagnosis in a community-based sample

  MOP42530, 1 Jan 2010

Sources: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, api.crossref.org

• Scavenger receptors associate with Alzheimer's pathology, cholesterol metabolism and synaptic dysfunction

  Grants or research support, 9 Oct 2026

• Difficulty climbing stairs or walking one block on the FRAIL scale is associated with adverse postoperative outcomes in older surgical patients

  Grants or research support, 8 Oct 2026

• Burden of non-communicable diseases and their attributable risk factors in Africa from 1990 to 2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023

  Board or leadership role, 21 Sept 2026

• Predictors of aortic stenosis in homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia: A study from the Canadian HoFH registry

  Grants or research support, 2 Sept 2026

• Burden of chronic kidney disease and outcomes following hospitalisation for heart failure

  Grants or research support, 25 Aug 2026

• Muscle mass and quality by computed tomography predicts mortality and emergency department revisits in older adults with acute pulmonary embolism

  Grants or research support, 11 Aug 2026

• Executive Function Among Older Adults With Bipolar Disorder: A GAGE-BD Analysis

  Grants or research support, Board or leadership role, 7 Dec 2025

• Insulin production is sustained during DNA damage-mediated senescence in adult human beta cells

  Grants or research support, 13 Nov 2025

• Sex-specific factors and APOEε4 genotype alter functional connectivity at middle age

  Grants or research support, 23 Oct 2025

• Higher blood pressure targets for hypertension in older adults

  Grants or research support, 17 Dec 2024

• Diagnostic Accuracy of a Plasma Phosphorylated Tau 217 Immunoassay for Alzheimer Disease Pathology

  Grants or research support, 1 Mar 2024

• The Blood DNA Methylation Clock GrimAge Is a Robust Surrogate for Airway Epithelia Aging

  Grants or research support, 1 Dec 2022

• Determination of Biological Age: Geriatric Assessment vs Biological Biomarkers

  Grants or research support, 16 Jul 2021

• A scoping review of the Clinical Frailty Scale

  Grants or research support, 7 Oct 2020

• Using the Clinical Frailty Scale in Allocating Scarce Health Care Resources

  Grants or research support, 1 Sept 2020

Sources: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

• Most COPD is underdiagnosed and linked to higher mortality

  The Lancet. Global health, 3 Oct 2026

• Measuring intrinsic capacity among Canadian adults: a population-based study using the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)

  Lancet regional health. Americas, 24 Sept 2026

• Longitudinal progression, metrics, age-dependence, and modifiers of ataxia severity in SCA27B: a multicentre study of 219 patients

  EBioMedicine, 15 Aug 2026

• The Canadian multi-ethnic research on aging (CAMERA) study: Design, participant characteristics, and preliminary findings

  Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 15 Apr 2026

• Baseline estimation of cognition with retinal thickness in aging and Alzheimer disease: an ONDRI study

  AAIC 2025 abstract, 23 Dec 2025

• Effect of dementia on 1‐year mortality in subdural hematoma: a preliminary analysis

  AAIC 2025 abstract, 23 Dec 2025

• Acute Effects of Resistance Exercise on Blood Glucose Levels in Postmenopausal Females with Type 1 Diabetes—A Pilot Study

  ADA Scientific Sessions 2025 abstract, 13 Jun 2025

• Plasma metabolites of a healthy lifestyle in relation to mortality and longevity: Four prospective US cohort studies

  Med (New York, N.Y.), 17 Feb 2024

• The relationship between the epigenetic aging biomarker "grimage" and lung function in both the airway and blood of people living with HIV: An observational cohort study

  EBioMedicine, 6 Aug 2022