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Cecilia Costiniuk

ResearcherUniversité de Montréal

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Cecilia Costiniuk

Researcher

Health Sciences

Université de Montréal

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
6 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 1 research grant (1 CIHR), most recently in 2024.

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Research

Cd4 T Cells Hiv Cure Hiv Immunity Hiv Persistence Hiv Reservoir Human Studies Humanized Mouse Models Myeloid Cells

Latest papers

Ethical frameworks and community engagement in HIV cure-related research at the end of life: looking back, moving forward.
Current opinion in HIV and AIDS · 2026
Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease Is Associated With Impaired Health-Related Quality of Life in People With HIV.
Gastro hep advances · 2026
Clinical Practice Guidelines for Cannabis and Cannabinoid-Based Medicines in the Management of Chronic Pain and Co-Occurring Conditions.
Cannabis and cannabinoid research · 2024 · senior author

All 14 publications

Latest funding

Building Capacity in Innovative Adaptive Trial Designs for HIV and STBBI Research: The CTN-Québec Training Platform
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$800,000
Aging with HIV: understanding heterogeneity to promote health for all
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$19,690
The RESTART Trial: Reducing Systemic inflammation for people on AntiRetroviral Therapy.
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$1,999,997

All 6 grants and awards

14 publications.

Ethical frameworks and community engagement in HIV cure-related research at the end of life: looking back, moving forward.

Ahmed A, Tran W, Ndukwe S, Sloane Z, Costiniuk C, Dubé K

Current opinion in HIV and AIDS2026

DOI: 10.1097/coh.0000000000001066 PMID: 42647404

Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease Is Associated With Impaired Health-Related Quality of Life in People With HIV.

Cinque F, Nudo M, Saeed S, Lim J, Kablawi D, Mariano G, Lupu A, Elgretli W, Moodie EEM, Price C, Monteith K, Cooper C, Walmsley S, Kronfli N, Cox J, Costiniuk C, De Pokomandy A, Routy JP, Klein MB, Lebouche B, Sebastiani G

Gastro hep advances2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.gastha.2026.100966 PMID: 42181046

Clinical Practice Guidelines for Cannabis and Cannabinoid-Based Medicines in the Management of Chronic Pain and Co-Occurring Conditions.

Bell AD, MacCallum C, Margolese S, Walsh Z, Wright P, Daeninck PJ, Mandarino E, Lacasse G, Kaur Deol J, de Freitas L, St Pierre M, Belle-Isle L, Gagnon M, Bevan S, Sanchez T, Arlt S, Monahan-Ellison M, O'Hara J, Boivin M, Costiniuk C

Cannabis and cannabinoid research2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1089/can.2021.0156 PMID: 36971587

Switch to a raltegravir-based antiretroviral regimen in people with HIV and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: A randomized controlled trial.

Shengir M, Lebouche B, Elgretli W, Saeed S, Ramanakumar AV, Giannakis A, De Pokomandy A, Cox J, Costiniuk C, Routy JP, Klein MB, Sebastiani G

HIV medicine2024

DOI: 10.1111/hiv.13531 PMID: 37641534

Why a distinct medical stream is necessary to support patients using cannabis for medical purposes.

Costiniuk C, MacCallum CA, Boivin M, Rueda S, Lacasse G, Walsh Z, Daeninck PJ, Margolese S, Mandarino E, Deol JK, Sanchez T, Bell AD

Journal of cannabis research2023First author

DOI: 10.1186/s42238-023-00195-8 PMID: 37403136

The Relationship between Visceral Adiposity and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Diagnosed by Controlled Attenuation Parameter in People with HIV: A Pilot Study.

Sebastiani G, Paisible N, Costiniuk C, Cox J, Kablawi D, Klein MB, Kronfli N, Routy JP, Falutz J, Lebouché B, Guaraldi G

Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2022

DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics12112590 PMID: 36359434

Cytomegalovirus Seropositivity Is Associated With Increased Microbial Translocation in People Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Uninfected Controls.

Ramendra R, Isnard S, Lin J, Fombuena B, Ouyang J, Mehraj V, Zhang Y, Finkelman M, Costiniuk C, Lebouché B, Chartrand-Lefebvre C, Durand M, Tremblay C, Ancuta P, Boivin G, Routy JP

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2020

DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciz1001 PMID: 31608409

HSV-2 Infection as a Potential Cofactor for HIV Disease Progression and Selection of Drug Resistance Mutations in Adults under WHO-Recommended First-Line Antiretroviral Therapy: A Multicentric, Cross-Sectional Study in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, and Gabon.

Mihimit A, Adawaye C, Péré H, Costiniuk C, Koyalta D, Mbopi-Keou FX, Mboumba Bouassa RS, Talla F, Moussa S, Longo JD, Tchombou BH, Grésenguet G, Charpentier C, Bélec L

Tropical medicine and infectious disease2020

DOI: 10.3390/tropicalmed5030136 PMID: 32846938

Radiographic features in investigated for Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia: a nested case-control study.

Hsu JM, Hass A, Gingras MA, Chong J, Costiniuk C, Ezer N, Fraser RS, McDonald EG, Lee TC

BMC infectious diseases2020

DOI: 10.1186/s12879-020-05217-x PMID: 32650730

Canadian clinical practice guidelines for the use of plant-based cannabis and cannabinoid-based products in the management of chronic non-cancer pain and co-occurring conditions: protocol for a systematic literature review.

Wright P, Walsh Z, Margolese S, Sanchez T, Arlt S, Belle-Isle L, St Pierre M, Bell A, Daeninck P, Gagnon M, Lacasse G, MacCallum C, Mandarino E, Yale J, O'Hara J, Costiniuk C

BMJ open2020Senior author

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-036114 PMID: 32448797

Building Capacity in Innovative Adaptive Trial Designs for HIV and STBBI Research: The CTN-Québec Training Platform

Co-investigatorCIHR2025HIV/AIDS & STBBI Clinical Trials Research Network - Phase 2

Principal investigators: Durand, Madeleine; Beaudry, Sylvain; Fontaine, Guillaume; Gilbert, Caroline; Golchi, Shirin; Greenstreet, Peter J; Hedrich, Tanguy; Lebouché, Bertrand; Lessard, David; Vicente, Sergio

Keywords: Adaptive Trials; Hiv; Implementation Science; Stbbi; Training

$800,000

Aging with HIV: understanding heterogeneity to promote health for all

Co-investigatorCIHR2024T. Gr.: Embracing Diversity -HIV/AIDS/STBBI-Co-infections and Co-morbidities-LOI

Principal investigators: Durand, Madeleine; Monteith, Kenneth M; Chartrand-Lefebvre, Carl; Murzin, Kate

Keywords: Aging; Comorbidity; Gender; Hiv; Inflammation; People Who Use Drugs

$19,690

The RESTART Trial: Reducing Systemic inflammation for people on AntiRetroviral Therapy.

Co-investigatorCIHR2024TG: Interv. Trial in Inflam. Chronic Cond. -CIHR HIV/AIDS/STBBI Res. Initiative

Principal investigators: Durand, Madeleine; Margolese, Shari L; Finzi, Andrés

Keywords: Aging; Cardiovascular; Comorbidity; Hiv; Inflammation

$1,999,997

Canadian HIV Cure Enterprise 3.0: Targeting tissue HIV reservoirs

Principal investigatorCIHR2024TG: Biomedical Res. for HIV/AIDS/STBBI-Next-Gen.Therapeutic Interv.-Large Team

Principal investigators: Chomont, Nicolas; Margolese, Shari L; Ancuta, Petronela; Angel, Jonathan B; Cohen, Eric A; Costiniuk, Cecilia T; Murooka, Thomas T

Keywords: Cd4 T Cells; Hiv Cure; Hiv Immunity; Hiv Persistence; Hiv Reservoir; Human Studies; Humanized Mouse Models; Myeloid Cells; Therapeutic Interventions; Tissue

$3,750,000

Closing the Comorbidity Gap for People Living with HIV : a Randomized Controlled Trial of Fostemsavir to Reduce Inflammaging

Co-investigatorCIHR2023TG:Interv. Trial in Inflam. Chronic Cond. - CIHR HIV/AIDS & STBBI Res. Init. LOI

Principal investigators: Durand, Madeleine; Margolese, Shari L; Finzi, Andrés; Monteith, Kenneth M

Keywords: Aging; Cardiovascular; Comorbidity; Hiv; Inflammation

$20,000

Canadian HIV Cure Enterprise 2.0: Targeting the interplay between myeloid cells and CD4+ T-cells for HIV cure

Co-investigatorCIHR2018Team Grant: HIV/AIDS Biomedical and Clinical Research - Cure - Large

Principal investigators: Cohen, Eric A; Margolese, Shari L; Rosenes, Ron; Ancuta, Petronela; Angel, Jonathan B; Chomont, Nicolas; Estaquier, Jérôme; Murooka, Thomas T; Routy, Jean-Pierre

Keywords: Hiv Cure; Hiv Latency; Hiv Persistence; Hiv Reservoirs; Human Studies; Humanized Mouse Models; Memory Cd4+ T-Cells; Myeloid Cells; Non-Human Primate Model; Therapeutic Interventions

$6,000,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Cecilia Costiniuk

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Ethical frameworks and community engagement in HIV cure-related research at the end of life: looking back, moving forward.

Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease Is Associated With Impaired Health-Related Quality of Life in People With HIV.

Clinical Practice Guidelines for Cannabis and Cannabinoid-Based Medicines in the Management of Chronic Pain and Co-Occurring Conditions.

Switch to a raltegravir-based antiretroviral regimen in people with HIV and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: A randomized controlled trial.

Why a distinct medical stream is necessary to support patients using cannabis for medical purposes.

The Relationship between Visceral Adiposity and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Diagnosed by Controlled Attenuation Parameter in People with HIV: A Pilot Study.

Cytomegalovirus Seropositivity Is Associated With Increased Microbial Translocation in People Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Uninfected Controls.

HSV-2 Infection as a Potential Cofactor for HIV Disease Progression and Selection of Drug Resistance Mutations in Adults under WHO-Recommended First-Line Antiretroviral Therapy: A Multicentric, Cross-Sectional Study in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, and Gabon.

Radiographic features in investigated for Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia: a nested case-control study.

Canadian clinical practice guidelines for the use of plant-based cannabis and cannabinoid-based products in the management of chronic non-cancer pain and co-occurring conditions: protocol for a systematic literature review.

Building Capacity in Innovative Adaptive Trial Designs for HIV and STBBI Research: The CTN-Québec Training Platform

Aging with HIV: understanding heterogeneity to promote health for all

The RESTART Trial: Reducing Systemic inflammation for people on AntiRetroviral Therapy.

Canadian HIV Cure Enterprise 3.0: Targeting tissue HIV reservoirs

Closing the Comorbidity Gap for People Living with HIV : a Randomized Controlled Trial of Fostemsavir to Reduce Inflammaging

Canadian HIV Cure Enterprise 2.0: Targeting the interplay between myeloid cells and CD4+ T-cells for HIV cure

Frequent collaborators

Cecilia Costiniuk

Jean-Pierre Routy

Jean-Pierre Routy

Giada Sebastiani

Shari Margolese

Zach Walsh

Bertrand Lebouché

Marilou Gagnon

Nadine Kronfli

Petronela Ancuta

Bertrand Lebouché

Alexandra de Pokomandy

Sahar Saeed

Nicolas Chomont

Curtis Cooper

Mohammad-Ali Jenabian

Sergio Rueda

Robert Reinhard

Nicolas Chomont

Sharon Walmsley