Funding: Six interdisciplinary teams receive Collaborative Research Seed Grant funding

Six new interdisciplinary research teams have received funding from the Collaborative Research Seed Grants (CRSG) program at Schulich Medicine & Dentistry.

CRSG provides seed funding for the formation and development of new interdisciplinary and collaborative research teams. The intent is to promote new collaborations that build on different scientific and scholarly backgrounds, to facilitate breakthroughs in solving research questions in a collaborative manner, and to position the School's researchers to successfully respond to targeted requests for proposals from Tri-Council or other funding agencies.

Congratulations to the recipients:

Project Title: Proof-of-principle study for an immunomodulatory therapy to treat SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Investigators:

  • Arthur Brown, PhD, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology; Scientist, Robarts Research Institute
  • Stephen Barr, PhD, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
  • Greg Dekaban, PhD, Department of Microbiology and Immunology; Scientist, Robarts Research Institute
  • Maria Drangova, PhD, Department of Medical Biophysics; Scientist, Robarts Research Institute
  • Grace Parraga, PhD, Department of Medical Biophysics; Scientist, Robarts Research Institute

Project Title: Molecular profiling of congenital diaphragmatic hernia; in utero and postnatal transcriptomic and metabolomic patterns to aid in prognosis and treatment

Investigators:

  • Andreana Bütter, MD, Department of Surgery
  • Soume Bhattacharya, MD, Department of Paediatrics
  • Barbra deVrijer, MD, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Tim Regnault, PhD, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology

Project Title: A multidisciplinary initiative for transgender health care in Southwestern Ontario

Investigators:

  • Jeffrey Campbell, MD, Department of Surgery – Division of Urology
  • Aaron Grant, MD, Department of Surgery – Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
  • Peter Wang, MD, Department of Surgery – Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
  • Debbie Penava, MD, MPH, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Project Title: Low intensity electric fields to enhance drug delivery for CNS disease

Investigators:

  • Matthew Hebb, MD, Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences
  • Jonathan Theissen, PhD, Department of Medical Biophysics
  • Justin Hicks, PhD, Department of Medical Biophysics

Project Title: Uncovering the cell-specific epigenetic causes of gene dysregulation in schizophrenia

Investigators:

  • Parisa Shooshtari, PhD, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
  • Nathalie Bérubé, PhD, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology

Project Title: Sudden unexpected death in Epilepsy: An Interdisciplinary study

Investigators:

  • Qi Zhang, MBBS, PhD, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
  • Ana Suller Marti, MD, Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences
  • Ali Khan, PhD, Department of Medical Biophysics; Scientist, Robarts Research Institute