Feb. 7, 2020
Congratulations to our exceptional HBI, Mathison Centre and ACHRI researchers and trainees
Congrats as well to our researchers for their recent publications
HBI, Mathison Centre and ACHRI researchers achieve great CIHR success
Riley Brandt, UCalgary
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
CIHR Fall 2019 Project Grant competition
- Dr. Deborah Dewey, PhD: Prenatal exposure to chemicals in plastics can cause epigenetic variation in genes associated with neurodevelopment in girls and boys
- Dr. Matthew Hill, PhD: Endocannabinoid regulation of stress responsive neural circuits
- Dr. Melanie Noel, PhD: Elucidating the role of memory in the transition from acute to chronic pediatric pain
- Dr. Roger Thompson, PhD (two grants): Pannexin-1 opening in neurons: mechanisms of intrinsic neuroprotection and Mechanisms of suppression of excitotoxicity by endogenous amyloid beta
- Dr. Tuan Trang, PhD: Central mechanisms of opioid withdrawal
- Dr. Ray Turner, PhD: The molecular choreography of ion channel expression
- Dr. Yunyan Zhang, PhD: Prediction of multiple sclerosis disability worsening scores using multi-stream deep learning
CIHR Network Catalyst Grant
- Dr. Gina Dimitropoulos, PhD: Towards a pan-Canadian network for integrating research evaluation and knowledge translation in youth mental health services, led by Access Open Minds based at McGill University
- Dr. Keith Yeates, PhD: Establishment of the Canadian Concussion Network
CIHR Early Career Investigators in Maternal, Reproductive, Child & Youth Health award
- Dr. Daniel Kopala-Sibley, PhD: Identifying premorbid environmental and neural markers of risk for first lifetime onsets of depressive and anxiety disorders in high-risk youth
Congrats as well to our researchers for their recent publications
- Dr. Jiami Guo, PhD and her research team were published in Developmental Cell: Primary cilia signalling promotes axonal tract development and is disrupted in Joubert Syndrome-related disorders models.
- Drs. Matthew Hill, PhD, Quentin Pittman, PhD, and Cam Teskey, PhD and their research team were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS): Stress-induced modulation of endocannabinoid signalling leads to delayed strengthening of synaptic connectivity in the amygdala.
- Dr. Roger Thompson, PhD, and his research team were featured on the cover of the Journal of Neuroscience: Suppression of Presynaptic Glutamate Release by Postsynaptic Metabotropib NMDA Receptor Signalling to Pannexin-1