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HBHL-funded researchers clinch CIHR Fall 2024 Project Grant
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research's Project Grant: Fall 2024 competition has approved 453 research grants for a total investment of approximately $411M, with 131 projects funded in Quebec.
HBHL is proud to announce that 19 HBHL-funded researchers will receive support for nine projects awarded at McGill and at the Douglas Research Centre.
HBHL-funded PIs are bolded in the following table:
| Project Title | Principal Investigator(s) | Co-Investigator(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Precision multi-modal brain imaging of high-level cognitive functional network development in autism via ultra-high field MRI | Xiaoqian Chai | Danilo Bzdok, Christine Tardif, Rodrigo Braga and Mayada Elsabbagh |
| Effects of GLP1-agonist induced weight loss on brain, metabolic, and cerebrovascular health measures | Alain Dagher | Bratislav Misic, Yashar Zeighami, Dana Small, Christine Tardif, May Faraj, Stephanie Fulton, Claudine Gauthier, Wen Hu, Filip Morys, Michael Tsoukas |
| Youth co-design prevention of gendered personal and interpersonal violence in Botswana | Jai Shah, Anne Cockcroft, Neil Andersson, Claudia Mitchell, Kabo Ng'ombe, Ivan Sarmiento, Lehana Thabane | Umaira Ansari, Boitumelo Kgakole |
| Advancing POP inhibitors as potential Parkinson's disease therapeutics | Nicolas Moitessier | Thomas Durcan, Anthony Mittermaier, Jean-Francois Trempe, Simon Wing |
| How dysfunction of hippocampal sharp wave-ripples leads to cognitive impairment in a mouse model of Christianson syndrome | Adrien Peyrache | Rebecca Mckinney |
| Characterizing and predicting PD biological stages with neuroimaging across global populations | Jean-Baptiste Poline | Alain Dagher, Tristan Glatard, Ronald Postuma, Madeleine Sharpe |
| Preventing post-stroke cognitive impairment and dementia with multimodal exercise training | Marc Roig | Baraa Al-Khazraji, Nathalie Arbour, Claudine Gauthier, Kevin Moncion, Caroline Paquette, Lynden Rodrigues, Pedro Rosa-Neto, Christopher Rowley, Ada Tang, Christine Tardif, Alexander Thiel |
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Physiological functions of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) in endothelial cells |
Lisa Münter |
Mari Kaartinen, Judith Mandl |
| Developing a novel ex vivo acquisition and analysis pipeline to understand the neuropathological basis of magnetic resonance imaging findings: application in Alzheimer's disease | Mahsa Dadar | Mallar Chakravarty, Josefina Maranzano, Naguib Mechawar, Maria Carmela Tartaglia, Yashar Zeighami |
Congratulations to all!
