KT Impact Stories

Learn more about how CIHR funded researchers are contributing to improved health and health care for Canadians through knowledge translation and commercialization.

Listening to new voices in school health

Knowledge Translation workshops empower students and parents as partners in school health.

Filling the care gap: exercise prescriptions for older adults after fractures

An integrated knowledge translation project used input from consumers—those living with osteoporosis—clinicians, researchers and healthcare policy-makers to identify what health practitioners most need to know to fill the post-fracture care gap.

Optimizing nursing talent in primary health care

Canadian researchers use Knowledge Translation to study nursing practices and engage nurses in population health approaches in patient care.

Moving medical research into clinical practice: Helping physicians sort the forest from the trees

Canadian researchers study how family physicians use e-learning tools to stay on top of the clinical practice information their patients' need.

Claiming the 3Rs in health—rights, respect and responsibility

Interactive research and training program shows that individuals with intellectual disabilities can gain new skills to manage their own health care and avoid health rights violations.

Detecting cancer cells with laser beams

Award-winning Canadian research and technology development delivers fast, cost-effective and non-invasive tools to detect early signs of cancer in skin and lung tissues.

Neurological protein may hold the key for new treatments for depression, addiction and stroke

New peptide drug therapies offer the promise of effective treatments with fewer side effects.

Health researchers make a double play

New Canadian research on the health and safety impacts of electromagnetic fields creates hope for less-invasive therapies for advanced Parkinson's disease.

Powering the science-2-business wave

Young neuroscientist narrows commercialization gap by building his business and leadership skills and mentoring others for science-to-business careers.

Anatomical GPS-like system revolutionizes brain surgery

Canadian brain mapping and computerized imaging technology takes image-guided surgery to the next level to improve patient survival rates and quality of life.