Funded Grants

The role of microglia in spinal cord injury (SCI) has remained obscure for decades.

Need for project: Gliomas are among the most malignant tumors, with very poor survival rates.

Need for project: More sensitive molecular tools are needed in the field of neuro-oncology to enable early detection, more accurate diagnosis, and prediction of outcome for brain tumors.

Need for project: Treatment of brain metastases (BrM) includes a combination of surgery and radiation therapy (RT).

Need for project: Glioblastoma (GBM) is an incurable brain cancer that changes rapidly confounding standard diagnostic and therapeutic methods.

Brain imaging using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an essential tool in modern neuroscience, with many uses for examining brain structure and function in health and disease.

More Canadians are surviving stroke today than in previous years, but improved survival also means that more individuals are living with a disability due to stroke.

The central nervous system (CNS, the brain and spinal cord together) is perhaps the most complex biological entity in the world.

EEG is a non-invasive, inexpensive, and efficient tool for measuring electrical signals in the brain.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a terminal disease that paralyzes people because the brain is no longer able to communicate with the muscles that we are typically able to move at will.