The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has announced the results of its Fall 2022 project grant competition. Congratulations to all the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health members who were awarded project grants, with 10 projects receiving more than $6 million in funding.
In total, the CIHR Fall 2022 competition has approved 382 research grants, plus 93 bridge grants, for a total investment of approximately $325 million.
Learn more about the projects that are being led by DMCBH researchers.
Project Grants:
- Neck Muscle and Head-Neck Dynamics in Rollover Crashes
Principal Investigator: Peter Cripton - Newly Optimized LNP Systems for Genetic drugs and Gene therapy in Neurological diseases
Principal Investigator: Brian MacVicar - CRF modulation of motivation, decision making and dopamine transmission
Principal Investigator: Stan Floresco - ACTIVE: Adding Life to Years in Cognitive Frailty by Preventing Falls
Principal Investigator: Teresa Liu-Ambrose - Using translational biomarkers to define whether plane of motion and complexity of head kinematics modifies biomarker and neuropathological responses to concussion in mice and humans
Principal Investigators: Cheryl Wellington, Peter Cripton and Piotr Kozlowski - Sex differences in Neural and Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Negative Cognitive Bias
Principal Investigator: Liisa Galea
Co-investigators: Annie Ciernia, Stan Floresco and Catharine Winstanley - Neuropathology of cognitive impairment in chronic schizophrenia
Principal Investigator: Veronica Hirsch Reinshagen
Co-investigators: Mark Cembrowski and Fidel Vila-Rodriguez
Bridge Grants:
- Investigating altered sensorimotor processing in Huntington disease
Principal Investigator: Lynn Raymond
Co-investigator: Tim Murphy - Targeting pannexin 1 to tune dendritic spine stability
Principal Investigator: Leigh Anne Swayne - Development and evaluation of novel nanoparticle formulations for therapeutic genome editing
Principal Investigator: Colin Ross and Anna Blakney
Co-investigator: Ujendra Kumar
