Funded Grants

Courtney Bannerman is a doctoral candidate at Queen's University who is conducting research to better understand how the nervous system interacts with the immune system during spinal cord injury pain and  those interactions can be changed to offer patients pain relief.

Sara de la Salle’s, a postdoctoral fellow at University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research,  research assessed differences in brain electrical responses to target, distractor, and trauma-related (e.g., gunshots, screams) sounds, and examined their relationship with symptoms in individuals with dissociative and non-dissociative PTSD subtypes.

Jude Frie, a doctoral candidate at the University of Guelph, investigates the effects nicotine vaping has on the brain and behaviour using advanced imaging techniques in rat models of nicotine vapour exposure.

Logan Froese is a PhD student at the University of Manitoba, whose work focuses on the evaluation of high-frequency data of cardiovascular and neurovascular physiology to improve personalized patient assessment and care.

Marie-Kim is a doctoral student at the University of Laval who is conducting research on dark microglia’s ultrastructural features and its interactions with hallmarks of amyloid deposition.

Allison A. Dilliot is a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University who, through DNA sequencing, is looking to identify structural variant signatures unique to ALS cases.

There is a pressing unmet need to develop novel therapies for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and self-injurious behaviours (SIB).

Roughly 10-20% of people self-report use of cannabis during pregnancy.

In this program, we will study: 1) patients with stroke, which occurs when blood flow is stopped to a part of the brain causing weakness or loss of sensation;2) patients with heart failure which is when the heart does not pump properly or does not relax; 3) patients with dementia, which is deficit of brain function that impairs the ability to perform daily functions.  

Our aim is to optimise mental health for youth across Canada, by providing a state-of-the-art informatics platform to support knowledge and data integration, open data, machine learning and improved communication between stakeholders – the Canadian Youth Mental Health Insight Platform.