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Pfizer Canada recently announced the recipients of its third Neuropathic Pain Research Awards Competition, which aims to fund and support Canadian innovation within independent neuropathic pain research in the areas of basic biomedical, clinical and health sciences.    


Sixteen research proposals were submitted to the competition and six proposals were funded based on ranked scores from the review committee, which is composed of 12 Canadian medical researchers familiar with neuropathic pain research.  

Two HBI members were among the six Canadians chosen to receive the Award – Dr. Cory Toth, Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Dr. Patrick Whelan, Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics for the Faculty of Medicine, and the Department of Comparative Biology & Experimental Medicine at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.  Dr. Whelan's grant was also co-authored by Dr. Sravan Mandadi, a Postdoctoral Fellow at HBI with an extensive background in the pain field and experience in both industry and academia.

 

You are invited to an evening of free popcorn, a movie and discussion with HBI member Dr. Donald Addington. On Thursday, April 8, 2010, Alberta Innovates - Health Solutions is presenting Shine at 6:30 p.m. at the Plaza Theatre, 1133 Kensington Road NW.

The film will be introduced by Dr. Donald Addington, professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine, clinical medical director of Early Psychosis Treatment Services for Alberta Health Services, and a member of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute. Following the movie, Dr. Addington will lead a discussion on the latest research in mental health.

Congratulations to the recently-announced recipients of grants and traineeships from the MS Society of Canada.

Operating Research Grants
Dr. Andrew Chojnacki: Regulation of human oligodendrogenesis by nodal signalling
Dr. Peter Stys: The axo-myelinic synapse
Dr. V Wee Yong: Promoting remyelination by overcoming an inhibitory microenvironment
Dr. Lenora Brown: Measures of corpus callosum function in MS: Development of an outcome measure

Drs. Eric Smith and Shelagh Coutts have recently been recognized with two of the most prestigious awards in the field of stroke research.

Eric Smith, MD, MPH, was awarded the 2010 Robert G. Siekert New Investigator Award from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.  Shelagh Coutts, MD has been awarded the Michael S. Pessin Stroke Leadership Prize from the American Academy of Neurology.

What does it take to cross the line from managing stress to being consumed by it?  HBI Researchers Dr. Jaideep Bains and Dr. Glenda MacQueen have been closely studying this issue and the links between stress and common mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety.

Please join us for a lively discussion of the latest research evidence on this important subject.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 6 p.m.
Bottlescrew Bill's Old English Pub (140-10 Ave SW)

RSVP: ydurnin@ucalgary.ca

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