What Is It?
The LevMax-Health Program leverages the strengths of partners and maximizes the benefits for Alberta.
What’s New?
LevMax-Health Funding Awardees 2023
The table below contains investment results for six Alberta-based researchers from the LevMax-Health: Tri-Agency Fall 2022 competition. The total value for all six projects is ~$4.8 million with ~$3.3 million contributed from Alberta Innovates. Projects will run from February 2023 to January 2026.
Congratulations to these six researchers and their outstanding work to advance Digital Health in Alberta!
| Lead Applicant | LevMax-Health Stream | Project Title | Contact | Award Amount |
| Athanasios Zovoilis, MD, PhD, ULethbridge | LevMax-Health: Tri Agency Fall 2022 | Fusing imaging of neural and behavioral activity with third generation sequencing and single cell epitranscriptome analysis | Website | $210,000 |
| Bo Cao, PhD, UAlberta | LevMax-Health: Tri Agency Fall 2022 | Individualized prospective prediction of opioid overdose using machine learning | Website | $259,651 |
| Carla Prado, PhD, UAlberta |
LevMax-Health: Tri Agency Fall 2022 | Using a Novel, Digital, and Multimodal Platform to Optimize Waist Circumference, Body Composition and Cardiovascular Health in Endometrial Cancer Survivors | Website | $1,000,000 |
| David Campbell, MD, PhD, UCalgary | LevMax-Health: Tri Agency Fall 2022 | Preventing medication complications during AcUte illness through Symptom Evaluation and sick day guidance: A Patient-Centered Digital Health Intervention | Website | $277,000 |
| Kara Schick-Makaroff, PhD, UAlberta |
LevMax-Health: Tri Agency Fall 2022
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“Re: CBT Dialysis” – A realist evaluation: Why, for whom, in what circumstances does CBT work for people with depressive symptoms receiving dialysis? | Website | $1,000,000 |
| Tolulope Sajobi, PhD, UCalgary | LevMax-Health: Tri Agency Fall 2022 | Characterizing patient preferences and personalizing risk information for optimal patient-centered management of coronary artery disease | Website | $510,000 |
LevMax-Health Fall 2022
This opportunity seeks to leverage high-quality, Alberta-based applications from Tri-Agency competitions to advance Digital Health in Alberta.
Tri-Agency includes Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), and Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) as well as CIHR Institutes.
This specific funding opportunity has four thematic areas for consideration:
- Talent
- Research
- Commercialization
- Health System Transformation
LevMax-Health Program objectives are to:
- Support research and innovation clients in Alberta to advance Digital Health.
- Leverage partner relationships to advance Digital Health innovation in Alberta.
- Increase the number of projects using real-world data to develop Digital Health technologies.
Project Eligibility
*The LevMax competition is not open to individual scholarship or fellowship applications submitted by graduate students or postdoctoral fellows.*
Projects must:
- Align with the objectives of the LevMax-Health Program.
- The Nominated Principal Applicant must be based in Alberta.
- Have applied to a Tri-agency competition within a specified date (see below) and met eligibility but have been deemed unsuccessful.
- An application must have competition scores and peer review comments.
- Top-ups or supplemental prizes are not eligible for funding.
- Align with one of the thematic areas:
- Talent
- Research
- Commercialization
- Health System Transformation
- Complete an Alberta Innovates Relevance Form
Funding
The LevMax-Health program will contribute to the project’s original Tri-agency application budget, up to $1,000,000 CAD, or whichever is less, for a maximum term of 36 months.
Application Process
If you have received results from a Tri-agency competition from April 1, 2022, to September 30, 2022, then the following dates apply:
- Application Deadline: November 18, 2022
- Anticipated Notice of Decision: Early December 2022
- Funding Start Date: Mid-February 2023
Complete the application form in the Alberta Innovates online grants portal.
Application Resources
- Program Guide
- Online Application Portal
- Alberta Innovates Relevance Form (for reference only – apply online)
Investments
2022 Recipients of LevMax-Health: CIHR Computer Modeling & Simulation Competition
| Lead Applicant | LevMax-Health Stream | Project Title | Contact | Award Amount |
| Na Li, PhD, UCalgary |
LevMax-Health: CIHR Computer Modeling & Simulation
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Developing Federated Learning Strategies for Disease Surveillance Using Cross-Jurisdiction Electronic Medical Records without Data Sharing: With Applications to Sepsis Detection
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Website | $150,000 |
| Quan Long, PhD, UCalgary |
LevMax-Health: CIHR Computer Modeling & Simulation | Building genetic-based predictors using “borrowed data-bridge”: Development of a new model and application to risk prediction in child and adolescent psychiatric disorders
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Website | $150,000 |
| Roberto Carlos Sotero Diaz, PhD, UCalgary | LevMax-Health: CIHR Computer Modeling & Simulation | Single-subject predictors of autism spectrum disorder via next-generation machine learning models
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Website | $150,000 |