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Grants Awarded


BBDMR

J.B. Denault

M. Guitton

L. Mollica

N. Pilon

J. Steeves



Home » Grantees » Fiscal Year 2008



July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2008


Banting & Best Department of Medical Research (BBDMR)
University of Toronto

 

Purchase of a communal automated microplate DNA reader
$20,000

 
Dr. Jean-Bernard Denault
Department of Pharmacology, University of Sherbrooke
  Structure function of caspase 7 activation sites
The Banting Research Foundation - CIHR Award
$20,000
 
Dr. Matthieu Guitton
Faculty of Pharmacy, Laval University
  Analysis of long-term involvement of synaptic plasticity in tinnitus
$20,000
 
Dr. Luigina Mollica
Department of Hematology, Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital University of Montreal
  Regulation of hematopoietic stem cell expression of endothelial protein C receptor
The Jennifer Dorrington Award
$20,000
 
Dr. Nicolas Pilon
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Quebec at Montreal
  Functional analysis of Cdx transcription factors in neural precursor cells
$20,000
 
Dr. Jennifer Steeves
Department of Psychology, York University
  The role of early visual experience on face processing in children and adults with one eye
$20,000
 
 
Applicants Approved for Funding
2008/9

The Banting Research Foundation awards research grants to the Banting and Best
Department of Medical Research, and, nationwide, to new medical investigators to help them in establishing their independent research career in the pursuit of novel approaches to the understanding and treatment of human disease. Grants were awarded to the following recipients for a total disbursement of $100,000 for the fiscal year
July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009.

Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, University of Toronto
"Purchase of communal backup software and high-density data tapes"

Dr. John Allingham, Queen's University
"Structural and functional studies of heterodimeric mitotic kinesin motors"

Dr. Petra Arck, McMaster University
The Jennifer Dorrington Award
"Mechanisms of progesterone-mediated fetomaternal tolerance"

Dr. Emmanulle Cordat, University of Alberta
"Regulation of intracellular trafficking of a model membrane protein:
the anion exchanger 1"

Dr. Sebastien Gingras, Laval University
"Role of cysteine- and serine-rich nuclear protein family in mammary gland development"

Dr. Ute Kothe, University of Lethbridge
"Yeast model system for small nucleolar ribnucleoproteins in ribosome biogenesis"