Researchers from the OISB have received over $7.5 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) in support of exciting research that could lead to better treatment options for cancer, diabetes, neurodegeneration and heart disease. The projects were funded through both CIHR’s inaugural Foundation grants, as well as its most recent operating grant competition. Such success highlights the innovative systems biology research being conducted at the OISB. Congratulations to all.
Below are a list of the Principal Investigators and the title of their projects.
Foundation Grants:
Jeffery Dilworth - Epigenetic Regulation of Muscle Regeneration in Health and Disease
Mary Ellen Harper - Mitochondrial Bioenergetics and Redox Biology in Obesity and Related Disease
Operating Grants:
Kristin Baetz - Elucidating the role of lysine acetylation in stress granule dynamics
Steffany Bennett - Targeting connexin and pannexin communication in demyelinating diseases
Alexandre Blais - Role of SIX family transcription factors in proliferation and tissue regeneration
Marjorie Brand - Role of oncogenic transcription factors in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Derrick Gibbings - Mechanisms of RNA Degradation by Autophagy
William Stanford - The role of PCL2/PRC2 in hematopoietic stem cells and leukemia