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Neurotransmitter

International Partnerships

Dalhousie BRC and Ben Gurion University of the Negev

TBI Research Partnership

In 2017 the BRC received funding from the Department of Labour and Advanced Education to develop a business model to include the provision of continuing and individualized care to brain injured patients while combining with research/investigation and delivery of support through a collaborative care model. This model is based on the development of a patient-centric, inter-disciplinary and collaborative research effort that aims to improve prevention policies for all Nova Scotians and clinical outcomes for TBI survivors.

The Brain Repair Centre welcomes you to learn more about this partnership by downloading the digital version of the business plan. Click on the cover image to learn more about the proposed model concept, which promotes patient driven research projects, and exploits and capitalizes on existing talent and facilities to bring the concept of a living laboratory to the fore.

Annual Report Highlights

Funding for Researchers - The BRC continues to award Knowledge Translation grants annually to Neuroscience researchers for projects that are innovative and novel. Over three years of awarding KT grants has resulted in approximately $33M of leveraged funding. Other grants were awarded for Research Dissemination & Commercialization; to support the NICE summer programme; and a Summer Student Stipend.
Research Collaborations/Cluster Initiatives continue to evolve, with the focus this year being on Traumatic Brain Injury. A formal announcement will follow.
Research & Poster Day included poster presentations from 22 students to a judging panel, and talks presented by researchers, students and society members, in addition to Guest Speakers from the University of Montreal and Boston University .
Brain Awareness Week is one of the main highlights of our year, with activities including a community-based Brain Fair; student-led interactive experiments at the Halifax Discovery Centre; and a Neuroscience as Art Competition & Auction.
The BRC continues to fund Journal clubs, which provide an opportunity for students and researchers to discuss aspects of science via monthly or bi-monthly meetings.
The QEII Foundation partners with the BRC and receives donations on our behalf, which is funnelled into Discovery grants.
We have ongoing partnerships with local societies, which offers an opportunity for the public to see what we do and to assist in fundraising on both sides.
The BRC is a strong advocate of the students and we strive assist them in future job placements by helping them develop their inter-personal skills as well as their academic/scientific knowledge.

Funding Announcements

BRC KT Grants
Closing Date for Submissions
Friday May 4th

Dr Angelo Iulianella, BRC Researcher, member of the Neurodevelopment cluster and AMAP member, was one of a number of researchers from Dalhousie University who received CIHR funding for their innovative health research. (February 2018)

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Dr Gail Eskes receives $150,000 donation for stroke research project (January 2018)
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George Robertson, PhD, Pharmacology and Turgay Akay, PhD, Medical Neuroscience were awarded $300K from MS Society for a joint project is titled: Gait parameters as predictors of functional recovery in a mouse model of MS. (August 2017)
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BIOTIC (Dr Steven Beyea) was awarded $400K by Brain Canada - Platform Support Grants
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The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) awarded more than $3 million in project grants to three BRC members (October 2017)

Recipients were:

Alon Friedman, MD, PhD, Medical Neuroscience
Vascular pathology in traumatic brain injury
Balwantray Chauhan, PhD, Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Changes in the retina and optic nerve in experimental glaucoma
Victor Rafuse, PhD, Medical Neuroscience
Synaptic dysfunction at the neuromuscular junction in ALS
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News & Upcoming Events

Neurotransmitter - BRC newsletter
1st issue now available

KT Grants - Call for Submissions announced Mar 8th

Click here for funding, news and announcements from Dalhousie Research Services

RECENT ARTICLES

James Fawcwett and colleagues reveal that the polarity protein Angiomotin p130 controls dendritic spine maturation downstream of the Lats1 kinase (published in Journal of Cell Biology, Jan 2018)

Discovery at Dalhousie brain tissue lab could lead to Alzheimer treatment (Jan 2018)

Attentional dysfunction and recovery in concussion: effects on the P300m and contingent magnetic variation
BRC Researchers Dr. Steven Beyea, Dr Aaron Newman and Dr. Tim Bardouille in collaboration with other investigators from Dalhousie University, IWK Health Centre, and the Nova Scotia Health Authority.

Traumatic brain injury: a priority for public health policy (The Lancet, Dec 2017)

Ventral neural patterning in the absence of a Shh activity gradient from the floorplate
A recent publication on the work of one of the Brain Repair Centre's researchers - Angelo Iulianella & colleagues.

Exenatide once weekly versus placebo in Parkinson's . . . (The Lancet)