CIHR results for the last project grant competition were published yesterday. We are pleased to report that in this latest competition, Douglas researchers have secured nearly $5.8M in grant funding.
Congratulations to our successful applicants, and thank you to Dr. Dominique Walker, who chairs the Internal Grant Review Committee, as well as to all the researchers who gave their time to review their colleagues’ applications.

Project Grants
- Nicolas Cermakian – The circadian regulation of Leishmania infection by host and parasite clocks.
- Massimiliano Orri – Leveraging prediction models to optimize mental healthcare service delivery and enhance clinical practice.
Douglas Co-PIs and Co-Applicants : Manuela Ferrari, Martin Lepage, David Benrimoh, Gustavo Turecki. - Nicolas Tritsch – Structure and Function of Striatal Neuromodulatory Dynamics.
- Gustavo Turecki – Mapping cellular diversity in the human dorsal raphe: Implications for depression and antidepressant mechanisms of action.
Douglas Co-Applicant : Corina Nagy. - Tak Pan Wong – Sex differences and population dynamics of social fear memory.
Douglas Co-Applicants : Mark Brandon, Sylvain Williams.
Project Grant – Priority Announcement: Patient-Oriented Research
- Marie-Claude Geoffroy – Adolescents with depression: education, income, and health in young adulthood. The Douglas Adolescent Depression Cohort linked to longitudinal databases to ages 18-25 years.
Douglas Co-Applicants : Anthony Gifuni, Srividya Iyer, Martin Lepage, Massimiliano Orri, Michel Spondekiewicz, Gustavo Turecki. - Katie Lavigne – Peering through the layers: Unraveling mechanisms of predictive coding dysfunction in psychosis using depth-dependent ultra-high field MRI.
Douglas Co-PIs and Co-Applicants : Lena Palaniyappan, David Benrimoh, Mallar Chakravarty.
Congratulations to all of you!
