Marjolaine Rivest-Beauregard receives CIHR grant
April 2025, We are pleased to announce that Marjolaine Rivest-Beauregard has been awarded a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Planning and Dissemination Grant for 2025-2026. This grant will support the project “Shadows and lights: revisiting the past to create a reflective future”. The project, led by Marjolaine Rivest-Beauregard and co-investigators Manuela Ferrari, Audrey L’Espérance,…
Fall 2024 CIHR Project Grant Results
Congratulations to our CIHR Project Grant Recipients! CIHR results for the last project grant competition were published today. We are pleased to report that in this latest competition, Douglas researchers have collectively secured nearly $4.5M – congratulations to all successful applicants, and thank you to Dr. Dominique Walker, who chairs the Internal Grant Review Committee, as well as…
Dr. Benrimoh receives HBHL Ignite Grant
December 3, 2024 We are pleased to announce that Dr. Benrimoh has been awarded funding through the Healthy Brains for Healthy Lives (HBHL) Neuro Commercialization Grants – Ignite Program for his project entitled “Computational Phenotyping in Psychosis (CP-PSY).” This recognition highlights the innovative work being done to advance our understanding and treatment of psychosis. Congratulations…
Dr. Sylvia Villeneuve receives Weston funding for research on sleep and Alzheimer’s disease
October 31, 2024 Dr. Sylvia Villeneuve has been nominated as one of the winners of the Weston Foundation‘s “Brain Health: Sleep 2023” program. This program aims to explore sleep-related approaches to reducing the risk of age-related neurodegenerative diseases. Dr. Villeneuve’s project, entitled Improving Sleep to Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease, investigates how poor sleep quality may increase the…
Drs. Katie Lavigne and Alban Voppel obtain BBRF Young Investigator grants
September 30, 2024 We are proud to announce that two of our researchers, Dr. Katie Lavigne and Dr. Alban Voppel (a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Lena Palaniyappan‘s lab), have been awarded the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) Young Investigator Grant. This award provides up to $35,000 per year for two years, for a total…
Dr. Maxime Montembeault obtains an Insight Development Grant
September 26, 2024 This year, SSHRC awarded Insight Grants and Insight Development Grants to numerous researchers, representing a wide range of research disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. Among them, we are pleased to announce that Dr. Maxime Montembeault‘s project has been awarded funding through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council’s (SSHRC) Insight…
Dr. Mahsa Dadar obtains CFI infrastructure support
September 19, 2024 This year, twenty research projects at McGill received funding from the John R. Evans Leaders Fund, highlighting their innovative character with a total federal investment of $5.5 million. Thanks to the Quebec government’s contribution, these grants will be doubled. Among the projects funded is one led by Mahsa Dadar. The results were…
Douglas research teams secure over $3M in CIHR funding
July 17, 2024 Congratulations to our CIHR Project Grant Recipients! CIHR results for the last project grant competition were published today. We are pleased to report that in this latest competition, Douglas researchers have collectively secured over $3M – congratulations to all successful applicants, and thank you to Dr. Dominique Walker, who chairs the Internal Grant Review Committee,…
Dr. Eric Latimer obtains a Partnership Development Grant from SSHRC
Congratulations to Dr. Eric Latimer, who has been awarded a Partnership Development Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) for the project The Québec homelessness prevention policy collaborative: Phase II of a successful partnership. This work, co-directed by Eric Latimer and James Hughes (Old Brewery Mission), is being carried out by a…
Drs. El Mestikawy, Lavigne, and Walker obtain NSERC Discovery Grants
June 21, 2024 On June 14, 2024, Yasir Naqvi, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health, and Ryan Turnbull, Parliamentary Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and to the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced on behalf of the Hon, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced $693.8 million…
Dr. Maxime Montembeault receives a New Investigator grant from the Alzheimer Society Research Program
June 18, 2024 Alzheimer Society Research Program (ASRP) has announced the recent recipients of funding for research into neurocognitive disorders. We are proud to announce that Dr. Maxime Montembeault has been awarded a “New Investigator Grant” for his project Novel digital and adaptive marker of word-finding difficulties for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease, in the…
Dr. Srividya Iyer and Dr. Jai Shah : Canadian Network for Child and Youth Mental Health Trials secures federal funding
May 23, 2024 CIHR Accelerating Clinical Trials program propels Canada’s first child mental health trials network Federal funding has been announced for the Canadian Network for Child and Youth Mental Health Trials (CYMH Trials Network), a new network to support clinical research that aims to improve mental health care for children nationwide. Mental health challenges…
Dr. Marie-Josée Fleury receives funding from the Substance Use and Addictions Program
May 13, 2024 Health Canada, through its Substance Use and Addictions Program, has awarded funding to Dr. Marie-Josée Fleury from 2024 to 2028. The Substance Use and Addictions Program has selected Dr. Fleury’s project, “Quality and adequacy of services offered to meet the needs of users with substance use disorders served by Quebec’s addiction rehabilitation centers,…
Three Douglas researchers and several students awarded FRQS funding
April 30, 2024 Congratulations to our researchers and students who have received FRQS funding! The Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQS) today announced the results of its funding applications for researcher and student salary awards. We are pleased to announce that three of our researchers have received FRQS salary awards, in the junior, senior, and…
Michel Perreault receives funding from the Substance Use and Addictions Program
30 April, 2024 Health Canada, through its Substance Use and Addictions Program (SUAP), has awarded funding to Dr. Michel Perreault from 2024 to 2028. This funding from the SUAP should enable Michel Perreault to continue his work to improve the response to the needs of family and friends in the field of concurrent mental health…
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