Dr. Christine Vande Velde is a cellular biologist at the Centre de recherche du CHUM, Université de Montreal, and one of nine ALS Canada-Brain Canada Discovery Grant recipients for 2022. While she and her team spend their lab hours parsing out biological intricacies, her work is always motivated by something bigger: the lives of people affected by ALS.
Dr. Carlos Rodrigo Camara-Lemarroy is an early-career researcher and clinical neurologist based in Canada at the University of Calgary. He is a first-time recipient of an ALS Canada-Brain Canada research grant.
Dr. Maria Stepanova, a physicist at the University of Alberta, is one of nine 2022 ALS Canada-Brain Canada Discovery Grant recipients. She works closely with Dr. Holger Wille, a structural biologist also at U of A. Though both have decades of experience researching other neurodegenerative diseases, the grant represents their first time being funded for ALS research.
When Dr. Thomas Durcan, director of The Neuro’s Early Drug Discovery Unit (EDDU), found out his team had been awarded a 2022 Discovery Grant, “It was a very happy day for us all.”
Dr. Richard Robitaille, at the Université de Montréal, received his first grant from ALS Canada ten years ago. Already a world-leading expert on the neuromuscular junction (NMJ), the funding was his first research foray into ALS and allowed him to find clinical applications for his expertise. His lab now spends nearly all their research efforts on the disease.
For years, interior designer Raija Hilska felt like she was “always dragging something along”. Deep melancholy, profound sadness, raw emotions and, sometimes, thoughts of suicide.
Using brain scans to study child psychiatric disorders
Dr. Tamara Vanderwal, a 2020 Azrieli Future Leader in Canadian Brain Research and Professor at The University of British Columbia is looking for new ways of diagnosing and treating brain disorders for kids.
What are memories and how can they help us treat brain diseases?
Dr. Mark Cembrowski, a 2019 Azrieli Future Leader in Canadian Brain Research and investigator at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, is seeking an answer to one of the most pressing questions in neuroscience. What is memory? Through Dr. Cembrowski’s research, he is exploring how we form and store memories and how our memory relates to a variety of brain diseases and disorders.
Increasing our understanding of the nervous system
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating medical condition that can forever change the trajectory of a life. It is also costly to the health care system, like traumatic brain injury or Alzheimer’s.
