For every $1 we spend in seed funding through the Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research program, Future Leaders will attract an additional $7.75 to build on their findings.
For every $1 we spend in seed funding through the Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research program, Future Leaders will attract an additional $7.75 to build on their findings. Since 2019, the Future Leaders program has supported 131 promising early career researchers with $100,000 each to pursue bold ideas, advance their research programs, and launch their careers. This seed funding has allowed Future Leaders to:
Face drooping – Arm weakness – Speech difficulty – Time to call for help! The acronym FAST (Face-Arms-Speech-Time) is both a reminder of the early symptoms of stroke and the urgent action necessary. Acute ischemic stroke (AIS) – the most common form of stroke – occurs when a blood vessel to the brain is blocked, starving part of the brain of oxygen.
According to data collected by Public Health Agency of Canada, approximately 878,500 Canadian adults over the age of 20 have experienced a Stroke, a sudden loss of brain function caused by a brain blood vessel blockage or rupture.
