Current and recently completed Funding:
1) Project Grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR): Dissecting the molecular mechanisms regulating the low-density lipoprotein receptor, the role of prosaposin (2026/10-2031/09)
2) Project Grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR): Dissecting the cell type-specific role of MT1MMP/MMP14 in the development of liver fibrosis (2026/04-2031/03)
3) Discovery Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC): Molecular mechanism and regulation of cellular cholesterol homeostasis-ABC transporters and PCSK9 (2024-2029)
4) Grant-in-Aid Grant from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (HSFC): Deciphering the role and underlying mechanisms of smooth muscle cell MT1-MMP/MMP14 in the progression of atherosclerosis (2024/07-2027/06)
5) Project Grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR): Dissecting the role and underlying mechanism of Surf4 in regulating lipid metabolism (2021/10-2026/09)
The past five years
1) Grant-in-Aid from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (HSFC) (2022-2025)
2) Operating Grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (2020-2023)
3) Project Grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) (2018-2023)
4) Discovery Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) (2016-2023)
5) Grant-in-Aid from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (HSFC) (2016-2019)
6) Research award from Prizer (2016-2019)