Research Grants received in January

Nine INRS professors receive more than $1 million in research grants to advance their innovative work.

Here are the projects of the INRS professors receiving research grants.

Research grants

Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé (FRQS)

Marc A. Gauthier : Glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase nanoparticles targeted to the brain for neuroprotection in ischemic stroke.

Yves St-Pierre : Nanomedecine for glioblastoma therapy, NANO4GLIO.

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

Angela Pearson : Understanding restriction of herpes simplex virus replication by upstream binding protein.

Frédéric Veyrier : Deciphering Neisseria pathogens cell envelope evolution : optimisation for virulence or Achilles’ heel of N. meningitidis and N. gonorrhoeae?

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Maude Pugliese : La signification sociale de l’argent : implications et mobilisation des thèses de Viviana Zelizer dans les études sociales de la famille.

Internship Mitacs

Patrick Labonté : Identification des protéines cellulaires impliquées dans l’effet antiviral des polymères d’acides nucléiques (NAPs) lors d’une infection par le virus de l’hépatite B (VHB) avec l’étudiant Richard Boulon.

Roberto Morandotti : Terahertz distributed sensing platform based on waveguide Bragg gratings avec l’étudiant Junliang Dong.

Étienne Yergeau : Visualization of multi-omics data in microbiome research avec l’étudiante Ruth Schmidt.

Canadian Light Source Inc.

Shuhui Sun : Hierarchical 3D micro/nanostructured LiMn1-xFexPO4/graphene hybrid composite for high power Li-ion battery and its dynamic study by in-situ X-ray absorption and THz spectroscopies.