We wish to thank the following organizations for providing financial support for our lab:
Active support
new frontiers in research fund
NFRT-Transformation grants
“Enabling novel cardiac therapies with pluripotent stem cells“ (2023-2029)
Vasconcelos (co-PI), Laflamme (NPI), Biktashev, Bub, Epelman, Feinberg, Garton, Haller, Keller, Kimmelman, Protze, Yau (co-PIs), Amon, Broomell, Gepstein, Nanthakumar, Noiseux, Rac, Sarvazyan, Schoichet, Tavallaei Yoo (co-Applicants)
“The Next Frontier in Transplantation: Ex vivo Strategies to Repair and Rebuild Organs“ (2021-2027)
Vasconcelos (co-Applicant) Keshavjee, NPI; Humar, Juvet, Chrome, Cypel, Selzner, Liu, Gross, Kumar, Haykal, Rogers, Waddell, Withers, Davidson, Chan, Reichman, Jaeckel, Kleinstiver, MacParland, Amon, Zhang, Badiwala, Karoubi, Parent, Sinclair, Yeung (co_PI)
SCN Horizon Award
“Advancing microvessel-based cardiac regeneration into a large pre-clinical animal model”
Vasconcelos (PI), Laflamme, Korbutt (co-Investigators), Ghugre (collaborator).
Team Grant: CIHR-JDRF-Accelerating Stem Cell-Based Therapies for Type 1 Diabetes
“Using novel transplantation strategies and HLA-edited hypoimmunogenic hPSCs to develop a superior islet-like product for T1D treatment”
Nostro (NPI), Vasconcelos, Drucker, Pepper and Korbutt (co-PIs)
John R. Evans Leaders Fund
“Cardiac regeneration and in vitro disease modeling”
Vasconcelos (PI)
Early Researcher Award
"Neovascularization strategies for utilization in ischemic diseases and in cell transplantation"
Vasconcelos (PI)
Project Grant
"Myocardial regeneration in a pre-clinical model of type 2 diabetes"
Vasconcelos (PI)
"Accelerating vascularization and blood perfusion for cell transplantation and myocardial regeneration"
Vasconcelos (PI)
Discovery Grant
"Investigating the influence of biomimetic cues in cardiovascular system formation"
Vasconcelos (PI)
Completed support
Operating Grant – Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health - New investigators (Bridge Funding)
"Accelerating vascularization and blood perfusion for cell transplantation and myocardial regeneration"
Vasconcelos (PI)
"Arterial-venous specification in adult neovascularization and in arterio-venous malformations"
Vasconcelos (PI)
Innovation Fund
“Development of in vitro models of human heart failure”
Vasconcelos (PI), Gramolini, Billia (Co-PIs)
International call for “Developing and Testing Retrievable Devices and Scaffolds for Beta Cell Replacement Therapies”
"Prevascularized device for islet transplantation"
Nostro (PI), Vasconcelos, van der Kooy, Cattral (co-PIs)
Medical Research Award
"Preclinical evaluation of a vascularized cardiac patch for improvement of heart function post myocardial infarction through the effective delivery of human stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes"
Vasconcelos (PI)
Medicine by Design, Team Project Award
"Characterization of the neurovascular islet“niche” and its role on beta cell function and maturation"
Nostro (PI), Vasconcelos, van der Kooy, Cattral (Co-PIs)
Grant-in-Aid
"Arterial-venous specification in adult neovascularization"
Vasconcelos (PI)
Research Accelerator Grant
Nostro (PI), Vasconcelos (Co-PI)
Collaborative Research and Training Experience Program (CREATE)
“Training program in organ-on-a-chip engineering and entrepreneurship (TOeP)”
Radisic (PI), Gilbert, Guenther, McGuigan, Santerre, Simmons, Vasconcelos, Wheeler, Young (Co-PIs)