CIHR results for the last project grant competition were published last month. We are pleased to report that in this latest competition, Douglas researchers have secured over $6M 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
- Mark Brandon – Organised Remodeling of Memory Circuits
- Mahsa Dadar– Understanding the impact of socioeconomic inequities and social support on brain health and cognitive reserve in aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
Douglas Co-PIs and Co-Applicants : Yashar Zeighami - Marie-Claude Geoffroy – Adolescents with depression: education, employment, and health in young adulthood. The Douglas Adolescent Depression Cohort linked to longitudinal databases to ages 18-25 years.
Douglas Co-PIs and Co-Applicants : Anthony Gifuni, Srividya N. Iyer, Martin Lepage, Massimiliano Orri, Michel Spodenkiewicz, Gustavo Turecki. - Srividya N. Iyer – Understanding Lived Experience and System Perspectives to Improve Psychosis Care in Peru
Douglas Co-PIs and Co-Applicants: Manuela Ferrari, Jai Shah & Trainees Tovah Cowan, Ruben Valle and Sakiko Yamaguchi - Nicolas Tritsch – Functional adaptations of striatal circuits to progressive dopamine neuron degeneration
- Sylvain Williams – A Novel Subiculum-to-CA1 Long-Range Inhibitory Feedback Circuit Required for Associative Memory and Disrupted in Alzheimer’s Disease
Congratulations to all of you!
