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HBHL-funded researchers clinch CIHR Fall 2024 Project Grant

Published: 30 January 2025

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 TrempeSimon 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

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! 

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