To create new synergies and bring together a broader range of expertise, ACAR has forged strong international collaborations and developed joint projects with neurodevelopment research groups around the world.
Among those, ACAR, The Neuro and the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge have partnered to explore the impact of autism genetic liability on brain structure by combining genetics and neuroimaging datasets from large, diverse samples of the general population.
ACAR is also part of a McGill collaboration with the University of Edinburgh, which boasts one of the largest neuroscience research units in Europe. As part of this partnership, ACAR and the Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain in Edinburgh are supporting a collaboration aimed at studying the development of thalamocortical circuitry in a model of Fragile X Syndrome, a genetic condition frequently co-diagnosed with autism.
Partnership Highlights
2022 McGill-ZNZ Neuroscience Partnership Grant
2021 McGill-ZNZ Neuroscience Partnership Grant
McGill/Edinburgh partnership
