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Assessment of melanotransferrin as an Alzheimer’s disease biomarker
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research/The Pacific Alzheimer Research Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship Award Millions people worldwide are…
View details2015Competition
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Associations among decreased planum temporale asymmetry, functional laterality during semantic processing, and severity of thought disorder in Schizophrenia
Most language processing occurs in the left hemisphere of the brain. In schizophrenia, language is disturbed on…
View details2004Competition
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Attention and optic flow in dynamics scenes
The ease with which most people navigate their surroundings conceals an important fact: the brain works very…
View details2005Competition
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Attention systems for perception and action
Vision serves two purposes: it allows us to consciously perceive our surroundings (e.g. recognize an object) and…
View details2003Competition
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Autism Spectrum Disorders: Identification of Novel Microdeletion and Microduplication Syndromes and Clinical Endophenotypes
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) affect more than one in 250 people and are characterized by significant impairments…
View details2007Competition
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Automated Malaria Diagnostic Test via Microfluidic Separation of Infected Red Blood Cells
Every year, 350 to 500 million cases of malaria occur worldwide, resulting in over a million deaths.…
View details2009Competition
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Autonomic dysreflexia and axonal plasticity in sympathetic ganglia following spinal cord injury
Each year, 35 people per million in Canada sustain a spinal cord injury. Apart from the well…
View details2007Competition
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B cells: New players in the immune response to cancer
High-grade serous ovarian cancer is an aggressive disease with a low survival rate (~30%). Patients who survive…
View details2020Competition
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Back injury in heavy industry: Examining peak and cumulative back muscle activity for risk exposure assessment
Despite increasing technological advances, heavy industries remain physically demanding, with high back injury rates among workers. In…
View details2005Competition
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Barriers to access and willingness to participate in an intervention program to reduce the incidence of HIV and Hepatitis C among drug dependent youth
In her Masters research Cari Miller showed there is a high prevalence and incidence of HIV and…
View details2003Competition
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Barriers to methadone maintenance therapy access in British Columbia
Methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) is the most widely used and well-researched treatment for opioid dependency in Canada.…
View details2008Competition
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Barriers to Reproductive Health Care among Marginalized Women in Vancouver, British Columbia
Amy Weber is dedicated to pursuing a career at the forefront of infectious disease research. She’s convinced…
View details2001Competition
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