Funded Projects

Pilot Project
Role of spinal cord GABAA receptor isoforms in visceral pain and referred hyperalgesia
Funded: April 2011
Partners:
Fernando Cervero
Professor, Anesthesia Research Unit and Alan Edward Centre for Research on Pain
McGill University
Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer
Professor of Pharmacology
Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology
University of Zurich

Pilot project
Deciphering the role of cortical neuromodulation in neurovascular coupling: An optogenetics approach
Funded: April 2011
Partners:
Edith Hamel
Professor, Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery
McGill University
Bruno Weber
SNF – Professor, Institute of Pharmacology & Toxicology
University of Zurich

Pilot project
Homeostatic synaptic plasticity: finding a unifying mechanism
Funded: April 2011
Partners:
Derek Bowie
Associate Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Canada Research Chair in Receptor Pharmacology
McGill University
Anne McKinney
Associate Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology & Therapeutics
McGill University
Shiva Tyagarajan
Junior group leader (Head of the laboratory: Jean-Marc Fritschy)
Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich

Pilot Project:
Mechanisms of polyoma JC virus elimination from the brain in progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
Funded: September 2011
Partners:
Jack Antel
Department of Neuroimmunology
Montreal Neurological Institute
McGill University
Roland Martin
Head, Department of Clinical Neuroimmunology and MS Research
Neurology Clinic, University Hospital Zürich
University of Zürich

Pilot Project:
In vivo Abeta microdialysis in freely moving and behaving APP-transgenic mice
Funded:  September 2011
Claudio Cuello
Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics
McGill University
Roger M. Nitsch
Director and Professor, Division of Psychiatry Research and Psychogeriatric Medicine
University of Zürich,
Tobias Welt
Postdoc, Division of Psychiatry Research and Psychogeriatric Medicine
University of Zürich
Jordan McAfoose
PhD Student, Division of Psychiatry Research and Psychogeriatric Medicine
University of Zürich

Pilot Project
Development and evaluation of novel techniques for assessment and rehabilitation of arm and hand sensorimotor function
Funded: September 2011
Partners:
Theodore Milner
Professor, Dept of Kinesiology and Physical Education
McGill University
Roger Gassert
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Mechanical and Process Engineering
Rehabilitation Engineering Lab
Swiss Institute of Technology
Olivier Lambercy
Research Associate
Dept. of Mechanical and Process Engineering
Rehabilitation Engineering Lab
Swiss Institute of Technology

Workshop
McGill ZNZ Network for the study of somnological and circadian bases of major affective disorders
Funded: April 2012
Partners:
McGill University
Diane Boivin
Nicolas Cermakian
Florian Storch
Gustavo Turecki
ZNZ
Hans-Peter Landolt
Erich Seifritz
Steven Brown

Pilot Project
Deciphering the role of cortical neuromodulation in neurovascular coupling: An optogenetics approach (Renewal of proposal)
Funded: April 2012
Partners:
Edith Hamel
Professor, Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery
McGill University
Bruno Weber
SNF - Professor, Institute of Pharmacology & Toxicology
University of Zurich
Antoine Adamantidis
Assistant Professor
Douglas Institute
McGill University

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