�㽶��Ƶ News - Brain Canada

$6M grant for new Open Science patient registry

webfull — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 17:22:38 +0000

Goal is to accelerate research and let patients know how their data is helping find treatments

A $6M grant from Brain Canada will fund the creation of a new Open Science patient registry, to share data with researchers around the world and let patients see how their data is used to develop new treatments for neurological disorders.

Published: 28 April 2023

More than $1.8M to support open EEG data

webfull — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 14:57:05 +0000

Brain Canada grant will aid research into neurodevelopmental, psychiatric, and neurodegenerative disorders

Electroencephalography (EEG) is an important tool in understanding the mechanism of brain disorders. Research in the field has gotten a major boost thanks to a $1.85M grant from Brain Canada to support EEGNet, an open repository for EEG data that helps scientists investigate neurodevelopmental, psychiatric, and neurodegenerative disorders.

Published: 1 April 2021

Major funding announced for brain imaging at The Neuro

webfull — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 14:02:02 +0000

$4.67M from Brain Canada will help probe the brain’s mysteries and create international research links

Research at The Neuro’s McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (BIC) of �㽶��Ƶ will receive a major boost thanks to a $4.67M grant from Brain Canada’s Platform Support Grant (PSG) program.

Published: 3 March 2021

Multiple ALS projects at The Neuro awarded funding

webfull — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 15:29:35 +0000

Program brings together multidisciplinary teams with expertise in various areas of neurodegenerative disease

Researchers at The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) make up a large part of eight projects funded by ALS Canada and the Brain Canada Foundation as part of their 2020 Discovery Grant Program, which brings together multidisciplinary research teams with expertise in various areas of ALS and neurodegenerative diseases to investigate critical areas of disease processes and clinical care.

Published: 15 February 2021

Dr. Masha Prager-Khoutorsky awarded Brain Canada grant

webfull — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 19:15:41 +0000

Congratulations to physiology faculty member Dr. Masha Prager-Khoutorsky, one of 20 Canada-wide recipients of the Brain Canada 2019 Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research award. This grant program provides early-career neuroscience researchers the opportunity to develop new lines of research and gather preliminary data to apply for larger grants.

Published: 13 November 2020

Six early-career researchers receive leadership grants

webfull — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 17:56:52 +0000

By Shawn Hayward

Six �㽶��Ƶ Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences researchers — Boris Bernhardt, Mark Brandon, Yasser Iturria-Medina, Jean-Francois Poulin, Jo Anne Stratton and Masha Prager-Khoutorsky — have received grants to support their work in the early-career stage, after being chosen from 150 talented applicants.

Brain Canada’s Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research Program, anchored by a $5M gift from the Azrieli Foundation, enables paradigm-changing research of the brain to improve the lives of all Canadians.

Published: 12 November 2020

Four early-career researchers receive leadership grants

webfull — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 19:36:35 +0000

Brain Canada program supports paradigm-shifting neuroscience that improves the lives of Canadians

Four researchers at The Neuro — Boris Bernhardt, Yasser Iturria-Medina, Jean-Francois Poulin, and Jo Anne Stratton — have received grants to support their work in the early-career stage, after being chosen from 150 talented applicants.

Brain Canada’s Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research Program, anchored by a $5M gift from the Azrieli Foundation, enables paradigm-changing research of the brain to improve the lives of all Canadians.

Published: 9 November 2020

Neuro researchers receive early-career grants

webfull — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 15:45:17 +0000

Adrien Peyrache and Stuart Trenholm will study epilepsy and vision

Two researchers from The Neuro are among just ten nationwide to receive Early-Career Capacity Building Grants this year from the Azrieli Foundation in partnership with the Brain Canada Foundation. Researchers Adrien Peyrache and Stuart Trenholm will study epilepsy and vision, respectively. The grants support early-career investigators who are conducting transformative research to advance understanding of the brain, in illness or health.

Published: 11 March 2019

Nurses’ care of young mothers leaves traces in babies’ DNA

webfull — Tue, 01 May 2018 19:24:33 +0000

Researchers have known for a couple of decades that early life adversity can affect the way that particular genes function through a process called epigenetics - a bit like a dimmer switch on a light, pushing gene activity up or down. What they haven’t been able to show until now is that POSITIVE early life experiences can have a similar effect, and that these effects can be seen over thirty years later.

Published: 1 May 2018

The Neuro joins neuroscience data sharing partnership

webfull — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 18:04:27 +0000

Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform will make disseminating and publishing data easier

Modern neuroscience research can produce massive amounts of data, which researchers can use to find patterns revealing anything from the first physiological signs of Alzheimer’s disease to a new drug target that could stop neurodegeneration. However, this data must be stored, processed, and distributed effectively.

Published: 19 February 2018