Current Grants and
Contracts
Current
As Principal
Investigator
2008-2013
“A
longitudinal study to identify factors that trigger ventricular tachyarrythmias among persons with implanted cardioverter
defibrillators”, Funded by the Canadian
Institutes of Health Research ($208,049/year, $6,544 equipment, Goldberg MS and Khairy P (co-PI).
Collaborators: J. BROPHY, R. BURNETT, V. ESSEBAG, T. HADJIS, N. MAYO, S.
MILLER, M. TALAJIC)
2008-2010 “Implementation of an Automated Artificial
Intelligence System for Extracting Data and Coding Pathology Reports for Use in
the MUHC Tumour Registry”, Funded by the Canadian Partnership Against
Cancer Corporation (Christine Boutin and Mark
Goldberg, Co-PI), $160,000.
2004-2010 “Gene-environment
interactions in postmenopausal breast cancer: A case-control study” Funded by the
Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation ($1.5 million for three years; the project is 8
years and other funding will be sought in two years; Goldberg MS (PI), Jacques Simard,
Francine Durocher (Université Laval), France Labrèche (Direction de la santé publique,
Montréal), Marie-Élise Parent (INRS Institut Armand-Frappier), Bryan Langholz (University of Southern California), Daniel Sinnett (Université de Montréal))
2004-2008 “Traffic-related air pollution and socioeconomic gradients in the incidence of cancer”. Funded by the Canadian
Institutes of Health Research ($108,642/year, $58,734 equipment, Goldberg MS (PI) / BROOK, Jeffrey R / BURNETT, Richard T / GILBERT,
Nicolas L / INFANTE-RIVARD, Claire / JERRETT, Michael L / MA, Renjun / ROSS, Nancy A / SIEMIATYCKI, Jack )
As Co-Investigator
2014- “Housing in the Canadian Arctic: Assessing the
impacts of rehousing for Inuit health", (CIHR, PI: Mylene
Riva (PI; Univ Laval)
2014-16 “Cardiovascular incidence from
exposure to outdoor air pollution” ($193,948;
Hong Chen (PI); Co-investigators: Dr. J. BROOK; Dr. J. KWONG; Dr.
J. TU; Dr. P. VILLENEUVE; Dr. R. BURNETT; Dr. R. COPES; CIHR)
2009- “Towards a Healthy Environment: Green Chemistry and Green Chemicals”, Funded by CFI (Leading Edge Fund and New
Initiatives Fund; $20.8 million); Chao-Jun Li (PI; McGill, Chemistry), et al.
2009-2012 “A normative foundation for ecological
economics and the tools for its assessment”, Funded by SSHRC (grant no. 865-2008-0085) ($73,996+$70,996+$88,996;
Peter G. Brown (PI; McGill, Geography), Richard Janda
(McGill, Law), Peter Victor (York, Faculty of Environmental Studies), Mark
Goldberg).
2008-2011 “A case-control study of environment and breast cancer”. Funded by
the Australian National Health & Medical Research
Council (~$AU240,000 per year; Lin Fritschi
(PI, Western Australian Institute for Medical Research, Perth, Australia), J.
Heyworth, C. Saunders, K McCaul, D Glass, T Erren, K Aronson, MS Goldberg.)
2008-2011 “Occupational
and lifestyle factors in the etiology of prostate
cancer, and establishing a platform for studying susceptibility biomarkers“.
Renewed by the National Cancer Institute of Canada ($252,000 per year; M-E
Parent (PI; INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier),
J Siemiatycki (Université
de Montréal), K Aronson (Queen’s University)).
2008-2013 “CIHR
team of prediction and communication of familial risks of breast cancer”, Funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Simard, Jacques R (PI; CHUL), et al. $1,103,067 per year)
2006-2008 “Cancer incidence and mortality among adults
in relation to long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution: A general
population cohort study of Ontario residents”, Funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
(Villeneuve, PJ (PI; University of Toronto), R Burnett, MS Goldberg, R Ma; $133,256 /year; ranked 2 of 31 in the
committee).
2004-2009 “Patterns
of care during the last six months of life of patients dying of cancer: A study
using administrative data”. Funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Gagnon, Bruno (PI), DESCHAMPS, Michèle, GOLDBERG,
Mark S, HANLEY, James A , MAYO, Nancy E;
$101,682/year)
As Principal
Investigator
2009-11 “The effects of emissions from industry on the exacerbation of adverse health effects among asthmatic children”. Contract with Health Canada and MUHC RI, $526,694.06. (Mark Goldberg, PI).
2009-11 “The Short-Term Effects of Air Pollution on Daily Mortality: Analyses of Linked Mortality Data in Montreal, 1984-2003”. Contract with Health Canada and MUHC RI, $203,940. (Mark Goldberg, PI).
2006-11 “A panel study of the effects of changing lifestyle and environmental conditions on signs and symptoms heart failure” Contract with Health Canada, $418,277.92. (Mark Goldberg, PI, with Amanda Wheeler, Nadia Giannetti, Eileen O'Meara, Nancy E. Mayo, James Brophy, Richard T. Burnett)
As Co-Investigator
2006-2008 “Small-scale variations in daily counts of mortality and
hospital admissions related to daily weather extremes and air pollution : an analysis by traffic density, heat
islands and socio-economic condition in an urban environment”. Funded by Ouranos (Audrey Smargiassi, PI,
$29,500).