Funding: $13.8 million supports research infrastructure at Western
Five projects at Western University have been awarded a total of $13.8 million in funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). Announced today at Robarts Research Institute by Ministers of Parliament Kate Young and Peter Fragiskatos, the CFI funds aim to support Canadian institutions by challenging them to propose transformative infrastructure projects that will underpin cutting-edge, globally competitive research.
Here at Schulich Medicine & Dentistry, funded research projects ranged from the creation of a facility for minimally-invasive surgery and therapy to new horizons in human cognitive neuroscience research.
Guests at the announcement toured Dr. Geoffrey Pickering’s lab, whose funded project aims to provide a team of microvascular experts with advanced technologies necessary to study the vast network of mall arteries and capillaries that regulate delivery of oxygen and nutrients to organs in the body and its impact on cardiovascular disease.
Congratulations to each of the recipients at Schulich Medicine & Dentistry:
Eric Arts, PhD, Infectious Disease Pathogenesis Facility for the Study of Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases
Melvyn Goodale, PhD, New Horizons in Human Cognitive Neuroscience Research
Terry Peters, PhD, Minimally-invasive Surgery and Therapy
Dr. Geoffrey Pickering, Facility for Microcirculatory Imaging and Tissue Analytics.
