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 30 applications of which NSERC funded 14 grants, for a total of $2.9M, representing a success rate of 46.7%.
- Addison, Christina (Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology): miRNA control of angiogenesis
- Baetz, Kristin (Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology): Can engineering protein subcellular localization protect yeast cells from toxic fermentation inhibitors?
- Bennett, Steffany (Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology): Advancing Bioinformatic Technologies for Lipidomic Discovery: Lipid Identification, Pathway Analysis, Network Analysis
- D'Costa, Vanessa (Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology): Mechanisms of Host Cell Modulation By Bacterial Effector Proteins
- Khacho, Mireille (Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology): Mitochondrial dynamics in the regulation of mitochondrial function and oxidative phosphorylation
- Parks, Robin (Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology): DYRK2 co-regulates apoptosis and innate immunity in response to genotoxic stress
- Perkins, Theodore (Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology): Improving detection in high-throughput sequencing data with gene/locus-specific models
- Rudner, Adam (Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology): Assembly and function of heterochromatin
- Wang, Lisheng (Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology): The role of E-cadherin in regulating signalling pathways
- Gibbings, Derrick (Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine): Mechanisms of RNA Packaging into Exosomes
- Rousseaux, Maxime (Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine): SUMOylation guides synaptic protein localization and function in mammalian brain development.
- Kulkarni, Manisha (School of Epidemiology and Public Health): Landscape ecology of the deer tick and its associated Lyme disease pathogen
- Lemaire, Edward (Medicine): Intelligent Mobility Systems
- Chen, Hsiao-Huei (University of Ottawa Brain and Mind Research Institute): How early life experience alters microglia function in shaping hypothalamic circuits.
