Christopher Hart, a Ph.D. candidate in Dr. Soheila Karimi‘s lab, has received the 2018 Hilary Kaufman Lerner Memorial Fund from the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences. This award is given to top research trainees/residents who work on demyelinating conditions. The award is valued at $3000, to be spent on research in multiple sclerosis. This award […]
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At the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology 2018 annual general meeting, Drs. Jayne Kalmar and Duane Button presented the President’s Lecture Dr. Phillip Gardiner’s honour on the evening of Wednesday, October 31st. The title of their talk was “Motoneurones, Muscle, and Mechanisms: A PHILharmonious Approach to Studying Neuromuscular Plasticity.” Jayne and Duane are alumni of […]
Read MoreGraham McLeod, a BSc Med graduate from Dr. Karimi‘s lab, received 4 awards for his BSc Med thesis during the award ceremony at the Annual Joe Doupe Lecture Event last Thursday. Graham’s thesis presentation, entitled “Development of new therapies for myelin repair in multiple sclerosis”, was chosen as one of the top three and therefore […]
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Dr. Jeremy Chopek has signed his acceptance letter and is expected to join the Department of Physiology & Pathophysiology on September 1, 2018. Dr. Chopek is the latest recruit to the Division of Neuroscience and Spinal Cord Injury. Dr. Chopek received his MSc (2009) in Kinesiology and PhD (2014) in the Department of Physiology & […]
Read MoreThe SCRC would like to highlight a few achievements by its trainees at the recent Canadian Students Health Research Forum. Both of these trainees are Ph.D. students in Dr. Soheila Karimi‘s lab. Arsalan Alizadeh, recipient of the 2017 Drewry Award for Excellence of Research in the Health Sciences, delivered the 2018 Drewry Memorial Lecture. Christopher […]
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We are pleased to announce that Dr. Soheila Karimi has received a 2017 Merit Award for her contribution in the past year to Research/Scholarly work, teaching and service (combination) from the University of Manitoba and UMFA. We offer our congratulations to Dr. Karimi and we thank all those who have supported her. More information, including […]
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Honoring 34 years of Will-to-Win Classic golf tournament donor support for spinal cord injury research at the Spinal Cord Research Centre The Participants in the annual Will-to-Win Classic Golf Tournament have generated financial support for research at the Spinal Cord Research Centre at the University of Manitoba since 1984. This continuous support has been instrumental […]
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May is MS Awareness Month in Canada. One of the SCRC’s researchers, Dr. Soheila Karimi, is featured in a Winnipeg Free Press article today: “U of M researchers battle MS from new angle.” Be sure to read up on her lab’s compelling research in fighting MS and promoting myelin repair.
Read MoreThe SCRC extends its congratulations to Dr. Soheila Karimi on being elected by the neuroscience community to serve on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Association for Neuroscience. This is a 3 year term starting June 1st. Dr. Karimi is very excited and honored to be nominated and elected by her Canadian peers. We […]
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The SCRC wishes to congratulate Dr. Eftekhar Eftekharpour and Dr. Soheila Karimi on being awarded a three-year grant from the Wings for Life Spinal Cord Research Foundation. Their project, “Targeting excessive lysosomal activity for prevention of cell death and enhanced tissue preservation after spinal cord injury”, was accepted for funding by the foundation last week. […]
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