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Our Congratulations go out to:

July 2024

  • Etienne on his CIHR project grant entitled “Developing inclusive, ethical, and responsible markers for chronic pain conditions” (4yrs, $623K). Co-investigators on this grant include Luda, Jeff and Mathieu. Well done all!
  • Etienne on being named a new CRC Chair in chronic pain
  • Marc O on having his CRC Chair in chronic pain, mental health and addiction renewed
  • Mathieu on having his CRC Chair in brain imaging of experimental and chronic pain renewed
  • Hannah Cho on being elected VP Operations for the PCSA

June 2024

  • The Louise and Alan Edwards Awards in Pain Research have been announced.

    Congratulations to all of those funded:

  • PhD studentships (new): Xiang Ao, Hannah Cho, Jonathan Fan, Sahel Jahangiri Esfahani, Rose Rodrigues, Roseanna Rought, Ulfuara Shefa, Marie Vigouroux
  • PhD studentships (renewals): Nathan Augeard, Nichole Brown, Hannah Derue, Matthew Fillingim, Nicole George, Maya Jammoul, Rachael Osagie, Mengyi Xu
  • PDF Awards (new): Waseem Abu-Ashour, Volodya Hovhannisyan, Genevieve Laporte
  • PDF Awards (renewals): Goodarz Kolifarhood, Vibhu Kumar, Kevin Lancon
  • Pilot project research grants:
  • Emerson Krock: Immune regulation of DRG extracellular matrix in chemotherapy pain
  • Mathieu Roy, Exploring the neuroimmune mechanisms of physical exercise training for chronic low back pain
  • Reza Sharif-Naeini, Actuators of osteoarthritis pain
  • Mick Sullivan, Feasibility and Acceptability of an Evidence-Informed Brief Virtual Intervention to Reduce Perceptions of Injustice in Individuals with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain

  • For obtaining QPRN pilot project funding:

Audrey Grant, Immunological and neurological quantitative traits to dissect causal genetic pathways leading to chronic pain

Emerson Krock, Protease regulation of DRG extracellular matrix in chemotherapy pain

Gabrielle Page, Detecting circadian rhythms of blood biomarkers at home in people with chronic low back pain

  • Allutas Alhamwi on receiving a CGSM-CIHR scholarship!
  • Christophe Tanguay-Sabourin on being awarded a CIHR-Vanier scholarship!
  • Audrey Grant on receiving a NFRF (New Frontiers in Research Fund) grant for a study on ”Reducing local air pollution exposure among adolescents with asthma in Cotonou,Benin”

May 2024

  • Emerson Krock on receiving a Chercheur-Boursier salary award from the FRQ-S

  • Hong Qian Wang, Zhang Lab, on receiving a FRQ Masters Studentship
  • LuQi (Lucky) Wang, Zhang Lab, HBHL undergrad research summer studentship
  • Sam Zhou, Zhang Lab, on receiving a FRQ PhD fellowship
  • Elise Desbarats, Roy Lab, on receiving a NSERC-CGS-D Phd Fellowship
  • Haoyi Qui, Sharif-Naeini Lab, on receiving a CIHR-CGS PhD Fellowship

April 2024

  • Valerie Bourassa for having successfully completed her oral defense of her doctoral dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Bourassa!

January 2024

Our members for their recent by the CIHR project grant competition.

  • Claudio Cuello, Identification, development and application of novel neuroserpin inhibitors to correct the NGF deficiency in the Alzheimer's disease pathology, $566,099/3 years.

  • Arkady Khoutorsky, Perineuronal nets around spinal projection neurons in neuropathic pain, $1,132, 200/5 years

  • Arkady Khoutorsky, Yoram Shir, The role of the gut microbiota in mediating pain hypersensitivity and other symptoms of fibromyalgia, $1,361,700/5 years.

  • Alfredo Ribeiro-da-Silva, Yves De Koninck, Targeting inhibitory synaptic pruning for treatment of Neuropathic Pain, $952.425/5 years.
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