2025 Ludmer Centre Seed Fund Grant
We are happy to announce that five great initiatives will receive 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
