NSERC Discovery Grants 2020 Funding Announcement

Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
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Congratulations to all of our members on their recent success in the NSERC Discovery Grants competition!

Congratulations to all of our members on their recent success with their Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grants Competition funding. 

The Faculty of Medicine submitted 22 applications of which NSERC funded 10 grants, for a total of $1.95 million, representing a success rate of 45.5%.

  • Béïque, Jean-Claude (Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine): Regulation and plasticity of dendritic compartmentalization features
  • Cassidy, Clifford (Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine): Novel MRI tools tracking developmental change within the dopamine system in children and adults
  • Harper, Mary-Ellen (Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology): Novel thermoregulatory mechanisms in brown adipose tissue
  • Klein, Ran (Department of Medicine): Pushing the limits of detection with PET
  • Lagace, Diane (Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine): Regulation of Adult Neurogenesis by Autophagy
  • Ouimet, Mireille (Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology): ROLE OF ORP6 IN INTRACELLULAR CHOLESTEROL TRAFFICKING
  • Renaud, Jean-Marc (Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine): Mechanisms of fatigue pre-conditionning (FPC)
  • Sun, Jim Jian (Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology): Molecular mechanisms of phagocytosis and immune activation by TREM receptors
  • Tremblay, Sara (Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine): Enhancing neuroplasticity in the prefrontal cortex via non-invasive brain stimulation
  • Trinkle-Mulcahy, Laura (Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine): Temporal resolution of phosphorylation-mediated signalling events in DNA Damage Repair
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