Funding: Seed funding advances new research collaborations

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

The CRSG program aims to promote new collaborations that build on different scientific and scholarly backgrounds to facilitate breakthroughs in solving research questions.

The program provides the seed funding needed to build a strong foundation to projects enabling researchers to respond to targeted requests for proposals from Tri-Council or other funding agencies.

Congratulations to the 2022 recipients.

Project Title: Obesity Management for Kidney TRANSPLANT-1: OK TRANSPLANT-1

Investigators:

  • Kristin Clemens, MD, Medicine - Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism
  • Louise Moist, MD, Medicine - Division of Nephrology
  • Michael Chiu, MD, Medicine - Division of Nephrology
  • Tayyab Khan, MD, Medicine - Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism
  • Sonja Richert, MD, Family Medicine
  • Alp Sener, MD, PhD, Surgery - Division of Urology
  • Saverio Stranges, MD, PhD, Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Project Title: Development of Brain-derived Bioscaffolds for Neural Progenitor Cells

Investigators:

  • Lauryn Flynn, PhD, Anatomy and Cell Biology
  • Matthew Hebb, MD, PhD, Clinical Neurological Sciences
  • Cheryle Séguin, PhD, Physiology and Pharmacology

Project Title: From Home to Epigenome: Unravelling the Biopsychosocial Links Between Oral Disease and Developmental Vulnerability in Children from Socially Disadvantaged Families in London, Ontario

Investigators:

  • Noha Gomaa, BDS, PhD, Dentistry - Oral Medicine and Diagnosis
  • Christina Castellani, PhD, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
  • Jacqueline Ogilvie, MD, Paediatrics - Division of Developmental Paediatrics
  • Claire Mitchell, MD, Paediatrics - Division of Developmental Paediatrics
  • Kathy Speechley, PhD, Paediatrics and Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Project Title: Effects of Adolescent Nicotine Exposure on Increased Risk for Mood and Anxiety Disorders: Translational Exploration of Mesocorticolimbic Dysregulation in GABA and Glutamate Transmission and Genomic Biomarkers

Investigators:

  • Steven Laviolette, PhD, Anatomy and Cell Biology
  • Elizabeth Osuch, MD, Psychiatry
  • Rob Hegele, MD, Medicine - Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism
  • Jibran Khokhar, PhD, Anatomy and Cell Biology
  • Walter Rushlow, PhD, Anatomy and Cell Biology
  • Jean Theberge, PhD, Medical Biophysics

Project Title: Examining Muscle Characteristics and Function Associated with Femoroacetabular Impingement Syndrome

Investigators:

  • Geoffrey Ng, PhD, Medical Biophysics
  • Corey Baron, PhD, Department of Medical Biophysics
  • Ryan Degan, MD, Surgery - Division of Orthopaedics
  • David Wang, MD, Medical Imaging

Project Title: Cardiovascular Health after Pregnancy in Women with Heart Disease

Investigators:

  • Samuel Siu, MD, Medicine - Division of Cardiology
  • Genevieve Eastabrook, MD, Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Sarah Blisset, MD, Medicine - Division of Cardiology
  • Barbra DeVrijer, MD, Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Rob Hegele, MD, Medicine - Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism

Project Title: Validation of Circulating Microglia Extracellular Vesicles in Human Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment

Investigators:

  • Shawn Whitehead, PhD, Anatomy and Cell Biology
  • Manuel Montero-Odasso, MD, PhD, Clinical Neurological Sciences
  • Stephen Pasternak, MD, PhD, Clinical Neurological Sciences