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Targeting neuronal maturation to promote axon regeneration following spinal cord injury

  • Program Type

    Capacity building grants

  • Area of research

    Neurodegeneration

  • Disease Area

    Brain Injury

  • Competition

    Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research

  • Province

    British Columbia

  • Start Date

    2023

  • Total Grant Amount

    $100,000

  • Health Canada Contribution

    $50,000

Project Overview

Spinal cord injury leads to permanent and severe paralysis and loss of sensation. The principal reason for this is that nerve cells connecting the brain with the rest of the body lose the capacity to regenerate their processes (axons) as they mature during development. Despite decades of progress, no regenerative…

Subcortical brain-computer interface to restore motor control after a cortical lesion

  • Program Type

    Capacity building grants

  • Area of research

    Neurotechnology

  • Disease Area

    Stroke

  • Competition

    Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research

  • Province

    Québec

  • Start Date

    2023

  • Total Grant Amount

    $100,000

  • Health Canada Contribution

    $50,000

Project Overview

Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) are new neurotechnology tools that let our brains communicate directly with external devices in real-time. Their main application is to help people with paralysis control electronic devices like a computer, or even their own paralyzed muscles. The area of the brain mostly used for BCI studies is…

Brain development in moderate to late preterm infants – exploring the relationship between perinatal inflammatory marker profiles and brain development disruptions

  • Program Type

    Capacity building grants

  • Area of research

    Neurodevelopment

  • Disease Area

    Other

  • Competition

    Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research

  • Province

    Alberta

  • Start Date

    2023

  • Total Grant Amount

    $100,000

  • Health Canada Contribution

    $50,000

Project Overview

Each year, 12.6 million babies worldwide are born when the pregnancy is between 32-36 weeks. This is too early and called moderate-late preterm (MLPT). MLPT babies are more likely to have problems with development and behavior than term-born babies. However, MLPT babies are mostly seen as healthy babies and not…

Understand mTOR hyperactivation during cellular interactions using a single-cell approach

  • Program Type

    Capacity building grants

  • Area of research

    Neurodevelopment

  • Disease Area

    Other

  • Competition

    Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research

  • Province

    Québec

  • Start Date

    2023

  • Total Grant Amount

    $100,000

  • Health Canada Contribution

    $50,000

Project Overview

The human brain is vulnerable to too much of mTOR signaling, An important neuronal pathway regulating neuronal development and activity. We study TSC, a neurodevelopmental disorder in which patients inherit a germline heterozygous mutation in genes regulating the mTOR pathway and commonly, a second somatic mutation causing mTOR hyperactivation in…

Decoding the Spatial Architecture of Newborn Brain Injury

  • Program Type

    Capacity building grants

  • Area of research

    Neurodevelopment

  • Disease Area

    Brain Injury

  • Competition

    Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research

  • Province

    Ontario

  • Start Date

    2023

  • Total Grant Amount

    $100,000

  • Health Canada Contribution

    $50,000

Project Overview

Infants born early (preterm) are at risk for brain injury and long term neurodevelopmental challenges, including delays in walking, language development, and school-aged cognitive performance. Preterm brain injury is complex, but a major contributor to abnormal brain development is chronic exposure to low oxygen (hypoxia) due to lung immaturity. We…