Congratulations to Dr. Martin Duennwald on Receiving a CIHR Grant
Congratulations to Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Associate Professor, Dr. Martin Duennwald, who has been awarded two Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Grant. Dr. Martin Duennwald and Dr. Gary Shaw are collaborators for the project entitled “Mechanisms of Ubiquitination in Neurodegeneration.” Dr. Martin Duennwald is also involved in antoher project entitled “Pathways to neurodegeneration from natural human tRNA variation” with Dr. Patrick O'Donoghue, Dr. Christopher Brandl and Dr. Amanda Moehring.
Health researchers at Western were awarded more than $8 million in funding from CIHR in the latest project grant competition.
In total, nine research projects were funded at Schulich Medicine & Dentistry ranging from evaluating new ways of looking at spinal cord injury to understanding how neuroimaging can improve diagnostics for Parkinson’s disease.
"The funded projects reflect an increasing trend toward collaborative initiatives that capitalize on complementary expertise of researchers in different disciplines,” said David Litchfield, PhD, vice dean of research and innovation at Schulich Medicine & Dentistry. "To build on these successes, it is important that we continue to encourage inter-disciplinary collaboration.”
