Drs. Khaled Abdelrahman (pictured) and Brian MacVicar at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health received an Alzheimer Disease Research Grant to investigate the contribution of metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 to impaired neurovascular coupling in Alzheimer disease. See which other Vancouver researchers received grants, awards, fellowships, and scholarships in June.
Dr. Ren Yuan (pictured) received a Health Professional-Investigator Award to use advanced technology to assess the “normal looking” lung computer tomography images to identify early cancer-related changes in the lung tissue that can not be seen by the human eye. See which other Vancouver researchers received grants, awards, and scholarships in April.
Dr. Amy Jamieson (pictured) received a Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute Investigator Award for her work to further refine the classification of p53abn endometrial cancers — which represent only 15 percent of endometrial cancer cases, but result in 50 to 70 percent of death — through analysis of molecular differences. See which other researchers received grants, awards, and scholarships in March.
Dr. Mirza Faisal Beg (pictured), received a CIHR grant to use artificial intelligence to extract body composition measurements from CT images for research and for integration into clinical workflows for precision medicine. See which other Vancouver researchers received grants, awards, scholarships, and fellowships in February.
Dr. Sophia Frangou received a Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health Alzheimer Disease Research Grant to use large-scale datasets to identify environmental factors that can accelerate or delay brain aging. See which other Vancouver researchers received grants, awards, scholarships, and fellowships in January.
