2025 Ludmer Centre Seed Fund Grant
We are happy to announce that five great initiatives will receive the 2025 edition of the Ludmer Centre Seed Fund Grant. These funds are intended to support preliminary or proof-of-concept studies on the topic of single-cell genomics or neuroinformatics, as it relates to brain health.听听
The following proposals were awarded:听
Cell-Type Specific Mapping of Brain Responses to Nanoplastic Exposure Using Spatial Transcriptomics听听
Corina Nagy, PhD听
Co-recipient: Lo茂c Binan, PhD听
Amount: $50,000听
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Improving Neuroinformatics Workflows in Preclinical Research: Preclinical Open Data Capture听听
Mallar Chakravarty, PhD听
Co-recipient: Rose Bagot, PhD听
Amount: $50,000听
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Bridging Biophysical Realism and Neurodiagnostic Utility: A Next-Generation Distributed-Delay Neural Mass Model for Multimodal Brain Simulation听听
Alan Evans, PhD听
Co-recipient: Anisleidy Gonzalez-Mitjans, PhD听
Amount: $50,000
Charting Immune Landscapes Across Brain Disorders Using Ultra Rapid Autopsy听
Stephanie Zandee, PhD and Charles Couturier, MD, PhD听
Amount: $30,000听
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Comparison between course of clinically high risk of psychosis patients versus healthy controls given social determinants of health using multi-faceted data and machine learning听听
David Benrimoh, MD听
Co-recipient: Saiyara Islam听
Amount: $10,000听
