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Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative movement disorder. Project Overview Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative movement disorder. At the cellular level, one of the main features of Parkinson’s disease is the clumping of a protein called alpha-synuclein. The disease gets worse as this...

CanChild’s ‘F-words for Child Development’ offer a fresh way for everyone to look at health. Based on WHO concepts, they present a holistic, strengths-based, function-promoting, family-centred approach to child health. Project Overview CanChild’s ‘F-words for Child Development’ offer a fresh way...

hiPSC derived neurons The project A $1.5 million platform grant awarded by Brain Canada in 2015 in partnership with the Marigold Foundation, McGill University, the Quebec Pain Research Network, and the Réseau de médecine génétique appliquée, allowed Prinicpal Investigator Jack Puymirat and his team...

Approximately 1 in 5 adolescents who report having a concussion experience persistent and long-lasting emotional and behavioural challenges. The reasons why have been difficult to tease apart – until recently. Future Leader, Dr. Anne Wheeler and her research team studied pre- and post-concussion...

Dr. Gary Shaw is a biochemist at Western University and one of nine ALS Canada-Brain Canada Discovery Grant recipients for 2022. “It’s always really exciting when you get a research grant, because you’re using your ideas that you’ve researched in the literature and created new experiments around,”...

Glioblastoma is the most common primary malignant brain tumor in the adult population with a very poor prognostic. Project Overview Glioblastoma is the most common primary malignant brain tumor in the adult population with a very poor prognostic. The combination of surgery, chemotherapy and...

From left to right: Sylvain Baillet, James Carmichael, Shehroz Khan, Derya Sargin, and Nathan Spreng Together with the Alzheimer’s Association, Brain Canada is funding five research teams to develop preliminary data and apply knowledge to the fields of Alzheimer’s and all dementias. In partnership...

After losing nearly everything after surviving a spontaneous brain bleed, Bob Murphy is now an advocate for those on disability and experiencing food scarcity. In early 2011, on a Sunday morning, Bob was heading out to play golf with his friends when he got a headache. He waved down an unmarked...