Yearly Archives: 2012

SCRC Researchers Accepting New Students and Trainees

A number of SCRC Principal Investigators are looking to bring in new students or trainees to their labs. Browse through their profile pages to see what research they are pursuing. You may contact researchers directly, or enquire with the Physiology general office, to find out more about graduate studies at our centre in the Department […]

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Brain Researcher Invited to Give Presentation at West Point Military Academy

Dr. Ben Albensi, St-Boniface Hospital researcher and associate professor, Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the University of Manitoba has been invited to give a presentation at West Point Military Academy on July 26-27, 2012. Dr. Albensi’s presentation is entitled, Models of Brain Injury: Applications for Studies in Synaptic Plasticity and Memory Dysfunction. His work focuses on […]

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Congratulations to the 2012 Manitoba Spinal Cord Injury Research Committee (MSCIRC) awardees!

The SCRC would like to congratulate the following on receiving the 2012 MSCIRC award. Dr. Eftekhar Eftekharpour. Project title: “Application of Protein Transduction Technology in treatment of spinal cord injury.” Dr. Karen Ethans, Dr. Alan Casey & Dr. H. Chaudhary. Project title: “The Use of the Peristeen Bowel Irrigation System for People with Cauda Equina […]

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SCRC researchers receive the 2012 Dr. Paul H.T. Thorlakson Foundation Fund and HSC Foundation Awards

Congratulations go out to Drs. Eftekhar Eftekharpour and Soheila Karimi on their receiving the: Dr. Paul H.T. Thorlakson Foundation Fund (one year funding) Dr. Eftekharpour’s project titled “Pharmacokinetic Characterization of a Novel Neuroprotective Protein.” Dr. Soheila Karimi’s project titled “Developing bio-engineered scaffolds of neural stem cells and growth factors for spinal cord injury repair.” HSC […]

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2012 Manitoba Neuroscience Network Poster Competition Award Winners

Manitoba Neuroscience Network 3rd Annual Scientific Meeting June 4, 2012 The Manitoba Neuroscience Network thanks all participants for making the 2012 Manitoba Neuroscience Network meeting another success. A poster competition was held. All submitted abstracts were ranked by a panel of 4 principal investigators. The top 6 in each of the student and postdoc categories […]

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Dr. Soheila Karimi receives 2012 NSERC Discovery and MICH operating grants

Congratulations to Dr. Karimi on receiving the following grants: 1) 5 year NSERC Discovery Research grant entitled “Functional roles of astrocytes in modulating neural stem and progenitor cells in the adult mammalian spinal cord” 2) 1 year MICH operating grant entitled “Investigating the potential of Neuregulin-1 therapy for myelin repair after spinal cord injuries” 3) […]

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Call for Proposals for 2012 Spinal Cord Injury Research Projects

The Manitoba Spinal Cord Injury Research Committee (MSCIRC) is pleased to announce that the 2012 Grants and Awards competition is now underway and accepting applications for spinal cord injury research projects in Manitoba. Purpose Grants provided through this initiative aim to increase understanding of spinal cord function; reduce the disability related to spinal cord injury; […]

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