Competitions and Funding / EXPLORE Competition
Previous Competitions
Explore Competition 2012
Selected projects
- Graciela Piñeyro (Institut de Recherche de l'Hôpital Ste-Justine), Monitoring conformational changes of channel proteins: a novel approach for rapid screening of ion channel hits
- Anne-Marie Mes-Masson (Université de Montréal), Circumventing the need for predictive biomarkers in personalized ovarian cancer therapies: empirical chemosensitivity testing using a microfluidics-based multiplex platform
- Richard Kremer (McGill University), Platform for the enrichment of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) for characterization and sensitivity to anti-cancer drugs (PREDICT)
Explore Competition 2011
Selected projects
Following this first competition, 4 outstanding research projects were selected. Once the research agreements were signed, the researchers received a total of $1.2 million in financial support starting December 1st 2011. These projects involve the participation of 12 researchers from 3 universities and 3 research centers. The tools developed in the next two years will have a major impact on the drug development process or will enable the discovery of new therapeutic targets.
- Terence Hébert (McGill University). FlAsH-Walk Mapping: A Step-by-Step Approach to GPCR Conformation Cartography
- Rafael Najmanovich (Sherbrooke University). Detection of Molecular Interaction Field Similarities and its Application in the Rational Drug Design of Selective Multi-Functional Inhibitors
- Enrico Purisima (National Research Council, Biotechnology Research Institute).Virtual Affinity Maturation of Therapeutic Antibodies
- Brent Richards (McGill University). Pinpoint Critical Drug Targets for Autoimmune Disease