2025 Ludmer Centre Seed Fund Grant
Five great initiatives received the 2025 edition of the Ludmer Centre Seed Fund Grant. These funds are intended to support preliminary or proof-of-concept studies on the topic of single-cell genomics or neuroinformatics, as it relates to brain health.
The following proposals were awarded:
Cell-Type Specific Mapping of Brain Responses to Nanoplastic Exposure Using Spatial Transcriptomics
Corina Nagy, PhD
Co-recipient: Loïc Binan, PhD
Amount: $50,000
Improving Neuroinformatics Workflows in Preclinical Research: Preclinical Open Data Capture
Mallar Chakravarty, PhD
Co-recipient: Rose Bagot, PhD
Amount: $50,000
Bridging Biophysical Realism and Neurodiagnostic Utility: A Next-Generation Distributed-Delay Neural Mass Model for Multimodal Brain Simulation
Alan Evans, PhD
Co-recipient: Anisleidy Gonzalez-Mitjans, PhD
Amount: $50,000
Charting Immune Landscapes Across Brain Disorders Using Ultra Rapid Autopsy
Stephanie Zandee, PhD and Charles Couturier, MD, PhD
Amount: $30,000
Comparison between course of clinically high risk of psychosis patients versus healthy controls given social determinants of health using multi-faceted data and machine learning
David Benrimoh, MD
Co-recipient: Saiyara Islam
Amount: $10,000
