Funded Projects
FOCUS competition
Funded project 2012
Richard Hoge - Quantitative O2 MRI: a new window on mitochondrial dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease
Funded projects 2011
Michel Bergeron - Selectomics to monitor and predict the emergence of resistance to antibiotics
Jocelyn Dupuis - PulmoBind: a new non-invasive marker for the early diagnosis of patients with pulmonary hypertension
Sylvain Martel- Magnetically guided drug delivery platform based on bio-carriers for the treatment of colorectal cancer
Morag Park - Integrated tumour-microenvironment biomarkers for improved targeting of breast cancer therapy
Funded projects 2010
Emanuel Escher - A new biosensor paradigm for continuous detection of multiple analytes
Michel Maziade - Profiling of patients with major psychiatric disorders using electroretinography
Matthias Götte - A Novel phage-based screening technology for antiviral
Gordon Shore - Integrated platform to identify synthetic lethality opportunities in cancer therapy
Funded projects 2009
Louis-Philippe Vézina -VLPExpress: a novel, high-throughput technology to accelerate the discovery and development of new vaccine antigens based on Virus-Like Particles (VLPs)
Michel Bouvier-Multiplexed biosensors for identifying and monitoring cellular events associated with drugs therapeutic efficacies and side effects
Eustache Paramithiotis - Development of biomarkers for measurement of early stage diabetes disease and for prediction of response to therapy
EXPLORE competition
Funded projects 2012
Graciela Piñeyro - Monitoring conformational changes of channel proteins: a novel approach for rapid screening of ion channel hits
Anne-Marie Mes-Masson - Circumventing the need for
predictive biomarkers in
personalized ovarian cancer
therapies: empirical
chemosensitivity using a
microfluidics-based
multiplex platform
Richard Kremer - Platform for the enrichment of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) for characterization and sensitivity to anti-cancer drugs (PREDICT)
Funded projects 2011
Terence Hébert - FlAsH-walk mapping: a step-by-step approach to GPCR conformation cartography
Rafael Najmanovich - Detection of molecular interaction field similarities for the rational drug design of multi-functional inhibitors
Enrico Purisima - Virtual optimization of therapeutic antibodies
Brent Richards - Pinpointing critical drug targets for autoimmune disease
Quebec/France competition
Funded projects 2011
Michel Bouvier - Monitoring the signaling pathways of GPCRs in living animals
Sébastien Blais-Ouellette - Optical imaging and biosimulation platforms to accelerate CNS drug discovery Investigators
Funded project 2010
Daniel Chelsky - Identification of new biomarkers for neuroendocrine cancers
Quebec/Ontario competition
Funded projects 2011
Thérèse Di Paolo and Ram Mishra - Catecholamine-regulated
protein (CRP40) and Parkinson’s
disease: implications for early
diagnosis and treatment
Éric Marsault and Andrei Yudin - Cycloinformatics:
A platform for rapid
production of medium-sized
macrocycles as protein-protein
interaction probes


























