Funded Grants

"Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) are synthetic single-stranded DNA/RNA that are useful in the targeting of mRNA sequences."

"Huntington’s disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder characterized by progressive motor impairment and cognitive decline."

The MIND Platform is a groundbreaking initiative that will revolutionize brain research by allowing scientists to capture and analyze unprecedented detailed images of the brain at both large and small scales.

Neuroscience is on the brink of a digital revolution, where vast amounts of data from diverse individuals are supporting the creation of powerful predictive models of brain disorders.

Optogenetics, defined as a technique where light-sensitive genes are introduced into brain cells to control their activity with light, allows researchers to precisely control nerve cell communication thereby, transforming brain research.

There is an urgent need for research that deepens our understanding of human brain function and uses this knowledge to accelerate therapeutic breakthroughs related to brain dysfunction.

The International Spinal Cord Injury Biobank (ISCIB) is a multi-user biorepository with the mission of accelerating therapeutic development in traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) through improved biological understanding of human injury, and the vision of serving as a global research resource where human SCI biospecimens are shared with researchers around the world.

We discovered that approximately one fifth of people with the deadly brain tumour glioblastoma show age-related genetic changes in their blood cells called ‘clonal hematopoiesis’, or CHIP.

Mental health disorders impact one in four Canadians, yet our understanding of the brain and its relationship to mental illness is dwarfed by what we do not know.

Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common and deadly adult brain cancer.