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UBC Health has announced the recipients of the Health Innovation Funding Investment (HIFI) Awards.
The HIFI Awards support cross-faculty and cross-campus research at UBC to create solutions for better health and address health inequities. This award helps interdisciplinary groups of health researchers to undertake innovative projects that have the potential to create change.
Awards of $10,000 to $25,000 are granted to faculty members who are collaborating across faculties, disciplines, and campuses to develop new teams, pursue new ideas, or translate findings from innovative health-related research.
UBC Psychology faculty and students along with their colleagues received HIFI Awards for the following project:
CATALYZING MULTIMODAL MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY (MEG) RESEARCH ON CHILDREN’S BRAIN HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT
HIFI AWARD: $25,000
- Hee Yeon Im, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts
- Deborah Giaschi, Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Faculty of Medicine
- Janet Werker, Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts
- Anthony Herdman, Associate Professor, School of Audiology and Speech Sciences, Faculty of Medicine
- Lauren Emberson, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts
- Tamara Vanderwal, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine
- Rebecca Feldman, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, UBC Okanagan
- Alex Cook, PhD student, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts
- Zahra Kheradmandsaadi, PhD student, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts
- Akosua Kesewah Asare, PhD student, Neuroscience Program, Faculty of Medicine
