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Individually tailored therapies for patients represent the culmination of research led by Dr. Georg Northoff, Canada Research Chair at the University of Ottawa’s Brain and Mind Research Institute, and a clinical psychiatrist treating patients at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre.

CHEO’s Dr. Roger Zemek published as co-author on the Lancet Neurology commission update on advances & persisiting/new challenges in prevention, clinical care, & research in traumatic brain injury.

What are the cellular underpinnings of how this motor learning process works? In a study published this week in Neuron, a research team led by Dr. Simon Chen of the uOttawa Faculty of Medicine offers new and valuable insights into this enduring mystery of neuroscience.

Led by principal investigator Dr. Peter Liu from uOttawa’s Faculty of Medicine and the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI), and Dr. Ruth Slack from the uOttawa Brain and Mind Research Institute leads a team of multidisciplinary researchers who are recipients of a highly competitive $2.9M Heart-Brain Connection IMPACT Award.

Dr. Baptiste Lacoste received a $550,000 USD grant from the U.S. Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs to investigate whether brain metabolism could play a role in autism. 

Researchers at The Ottawa Hospital awarded 19 CIHR grants worth more than $12 million

(as reported by the OHRI on July 20, 2022)

CIHR awards over $21.5M to research teams from uOttawa Faculty of Medicine and affiliated institutes

(as reported by the uOttawa on July 19, 2022)

Treating a patient’s entire body, not just the nerves in their muscles, is essential for the complete treatment of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), according to a study led by Aoife Reilly in Dr. Rashmi Kothary’s group.