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Timothy Friedman, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia, is investigating the mechanisms through which DNA enables repair after injury in peripheral nerves but not the brain or spinal cord.

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are devastating diseases in which a protein called TDP-43 ends up in the wrong part of the cell, disrupting its normal role in managing RNA.

Contribution of stress-associated neurovascular alterations in Parkinson’s disease and high rates of depression

Personalized Modeling and Optimization of Transcranial Temporal Interference Stimulation in Major Depressive Disorder

Investigating the role of EPG5 in Parkinson’s Disease pathogenesis

Using the mirror image of body’s main sugar glucose (so-called L-glucose), we plan to hijack the sugar addiction of glioblastoma (GBM) as a therapeutic target.

Amirhossein Jahani, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Montreal, uses intracranial EEG to investigate how network interactions during the preictal phase (i.e., period preceding a seizure) may contribute to seizure initiation and propagation.

Sofia Gentile, a Master’s Student at University of Toronto, is investigating the role of immune cell activation in a rare and fatal neurodegenerative disease called progressive supranuclear palsy.

Jenna Hanrahan, a Doctoral Student at Memorial University of Newfoundland, aims to characterize the brain of a humanized mouse model of Huntington’s disease.