Fueling early collaboration for future skin research
Team Development Awards
Apply for the Spring 2026 Team Development Award
This funding opportunity aims to support preliminary activities for developing novel teams and the infrastructure necessary to conduct future multicentre research for the benefit of patients living with skin conditions. Eligible teams will receive funding of up to $25,000 CAD.
Deadline: May 15, 2026
Past Award Recipients
- Fall 2025
- Spring 2025
- 2024
- 2022-2023
Dr. Sabrina Hoa
Building trial capacity in systemic sclerosis: setting the stage for cohort-embedded pragmatic clinical trials
Université de Montréal
Dr. Anastasiya Muntyanu
Can‑PG: A Canadian Network for Pyoderma Gangrenosum Patients and Outcomes
Women’s College Hospital - University of Toronto
Dr. Mélanie Laurin
Optimization of a mouse xenograph platform to study BCC progression
Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec – Université Laval
Dr. Maggie Larché
Immune-Mediated Pathways of Aberrant Scarring: Establishing a Canadian Collaborative Platformfor Translational Skin Research to Develop an Atlas of Skin Fibrosis
University of Calgary
Rachel Asiniwasis
East-West national Indigenous atopic dermatitis community and research collaborative core seed working group
First Nations University of Canada
David Croitoru
Surgical management of hidradenitis suppurativa with deroofing vs wide local excision: a multi-centre retrospective cohort study
University of Toronto, Women’s College Hospital
Caitlin Champion
Canadian Frostbite Collaborative Network Symposium and Research Planning
NOSM University
Aaron Drucker
Online clinical trials infrastructure to study low-risk interventions for atopic dermatitis
Women's College Hospital
Elena Netchiporouk
Establishing a National Registry and Biobank for Hereditary Leiomyomatosis and Renal Cell Cancer (HLRCC)
McGill University Health Centre
Sarah Hedtrich
Development of a multi-center research team to explore the potential of anti-mesothelin 1 gene therapies for fibrotic scleroderma.
The University of British Columbia
Maryam Piram
Autoinflammatory skin diseases – creation of a canadian network (SkinSAIDCanada).
Universite de Montreal
Aaron Drucker
Using pathology reports to enable population-based studies of rare skin disease.
Women's College Hospital
Marlene Dytoc
The Development of a Psychodermatology Risk Assessment Tool: Improving Care for Patients with Atopic Dermatitis and Other Psychodermatologic Conditions
University of Alberta
Régine Mydlarski
Canadian Transplant Dermatology Research Network.
University of Calgary
Sarvesh Logsetty
Evelopment of a multicentre burn platform adaptive trials team
Université Laval
Brett Thombs
A New Patient-Researcher Partnership for Research on Itch in Systemic Sclerosis.
Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research of the Jewish General Hospitaland Department of Psychiatry, McGill University
Lucie Germain
Epidermolysis bullosa multidisciplinary team focusing on developing an effective cure for this severe rare skin disease
Université Laval
Mina Tadrous
Evidence-based Management of Skin conditions Collaborative (EMSC).
Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto
Caitlin Champion
Canadian Frostbite Collaborative National Website Development
NOSM University
Carolyn Jack
Canadian Patient-Oriented Dermatitis Database and Biobank (C-POD)
McGill University
Elena Netchiporouk
Canadian Morphea Registry (C-MORE) : Characterizing the landscape of morphea in Canada and elucidating predictors of severe disease
McGill Univserity
Irene Lara-Corrales
A Canadian Interdisciplinary collaboration for Hidradenitis Suppurativa patients
SickKids Hospital
Lucie Germain
A multicenter collaborative skin research group focusing on novel treatment for epidermolysis bullosa
Université Laval
Mélanie Laurin
Development of a in vivo mouse screening platform to identify molecular effectors of non-melanoma skin cancers
Université Laval
Philippe Lefrançois
Establishing and optimizing skin cancer biobanking across Québec
Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research
Timothy Hanna
A Multi-Province Platform for Merkel cell carcinoma Health Services Research
Queen's University
Véronique Moulin
Setting up the conditions for the biobanking of tissues and cells from hypertrophic scars
Université Laval
Raed Alhusayen
Hidradenitis Suppurativa in Diverse Patient Populations: Multicenter Pilot Project to Assess Disease Characteristics and Access to Biologic Therapy
Sunnybrook Research Institute
Elena Pope
Genodermatoses Network: A Canadian multidisciplinary collaboration for patients with genetic skin disorders
The Hospital for Sick Children/University
Maryam Piram
Autoinflammatory skin diseases-creation of a Candian Network (skinSAIDCanada)
Université de Montréal