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‘Best in Class’ Platform for Blood Brain Barrier Delivery of Therapeutics

  • Program Type

    Platform grants

  • Area of research

    Multiple

  • Disease Area

    Brain Cancer

  • Competition

    CQDM - Brain Canada - Focus on Brain

  • Province

    Ontario

  • Start Date

    2015

  • Total Grant Amount

    $1,495,000

  • Health Canada Contribution

    $747,500

Project Overview

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) plays an essential role in protecting the brain from blood-borne diseases. However, it blocks otherwise effective medicine from reaching the brain. Most drugs developed for treatment of central nervous system diseases fail because they aren’t optimally designed to cross the BBB. There is a need to…

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Antipsychotic treatment in a genetic subtype of schizophrenia: Novel insights from neuroimaging and pharmacogenetics

  • Program Type

    Capacity building grants

  • Area of research

    Mental Health

  • Disease Area

    Mental illness,  Parkinson's

  • Competition

    Bell Mental Health Research Training Awards

  • Province

    Ontario

  • Start Date

    2013

  • Total Grant Amount

    $97,500

  • Health Canada Contribution

    $48,750

Project Overview

Schizophrenia is a common and serious mental illness characterized by psychotic symptoms, social withdrawal and functional disabilities that are generally lifelong. Response to treatment with antipsychotics is variable and the manifestation of common side effects, including serious motor symptoms, is unpredictable. There is growing interest in the clinical and predictive…

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Building the Rick Hansen Alberta Spinal Cord Injury Registry

  • Program Type

    Platform grants

  • Area of research

    Injury

  • Disease Area

    Other

  • Competition

    2014 Platform Grants

  • Province

    Alberta

  • Start Date

    2014

  • Total Grant Amount

    $832,395

  • Health Canada Contribution

    $416,197

Project Overview

There are an estimated 86,000 people living with a spinal cord injury (SCI) in Canada, with an annual economic burden of $2.67 billion for those surviving the initial injury. Approximately half of SCIs are the result of a traumatic (T) incident (ex. motor vehicle accident, sports injury) and the other…

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A national coordinating neuroinformatics framework for autism and related conditions

  • Program Type

    Team grants

  • Area of research

    Neurodevelopment

  • Disease Area

    Autism

  • Competition

    Azrieli Neurodevelopment Research Program

  • Province

    Québec

  • Start Date

    2016

  • Total Grant Amount

    $1,552,398

  • Health Canada Contribution

    $776,199

Project Overview

New approaches in neurodevelopmental research increasingly seek to integrate enormous amounts of data through sophisticated informatics so as to determine the relationship between genotype and phenotypes, both structural and functional, as they change over time during development. Such approaches dwarf the resources of most laboratories, who are increasingly moving toward…

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Novel approaches to early detection and treatment of ASD

  • Program Type

    Team grants

  • Area of research

    Neurodevelopment

  • Disease Area

    Autism

  • Competition

    Azrieli Neurodevelopment Research Program

  • Province

    Alberta

  • Start Date

    2016

  • Total Grant Amount

    $2,086,742

  • Health Canada Contribution

    $1,043,371

Project Overview

More than 1 in 100 individuals are diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), with profound impacts on the quality of life of those who are affected and their families. Until recently, children were rarely referred for assessment before age 2, so we knew little about ASD early in life. Prior…

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