Child Health and Human Development
 

April 25, 2018: Congratulations to Dr. Nada Jabado, recipients of the 2017 Large-Scale Applied Research Project Competition: Genomics and Precision Health Grant!

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April 9, 2018: Check out this newsletter about 's Dr. Hugh Clarke's Reseach on how oocytes communicate their nourishment needs to grow and remain fertile.

 

March 27, 2018: Check out this newsletter on the Innovative trial to improve adherence to treatment among young kidney transplant patients led by Dr. Bethany Foster.

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Febuary 9, 2018: Learn more about Dr. Annette Majnemer's research, whose interests focus on the developmental, functional and quality of life outcomes of children with disabilities and their determinants at the School of Physical & Occupational Therapy in this video.

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January 30, 2018: Check out this newsletter about this new discovery by Dr. David Rosenblatt and French collaborators of an epigenetic alteration of a B12 vitamin processing gene.

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December 12, 2017:  Dr. Nada Jabado is appointed to the Governing Council of the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR)

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December 6, 2017: Congrats to Catherine Argyriou and Dr. Nancy Braverman for their outstanding presentation that gave them the victory in the 2017 AmorChem KNOCK OUT event. Read more here.

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December 1, 2017: BMJ is looking for a new Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Medical Genetics; deadline to apply is December 15, 2017

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November 17, 2017: Congratulations to Marie-Julie Allard from Dr. Guillaume Sebire's lab who was highlighted by the RFSQ. Read more here.

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March 29, 2017: Check out this interview with Dr. Isabel Fortier from CHHD

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March 3. 2017: Congrats to Dr. Annette Majnemer for receiving the Montreal Children's Hospital Foundation 2017 Award of Excellence in the Research category! Very well deserved!

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February 15, 2017: Congratulations to Alex Yu from Dr. Cristian O'Flaherty's lab for receiving the Claude Gagnon Urology Studentship!

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January 12, 2017: Kudos to the Jabado and Majewski labs for their recent discovery and publication in Nature Genetics on histone mutations in head and neck cancers. Read the article here.

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November 4, 2016: Thank you to all 170 attendees who participated in the CHHD Annual Scientific Retreat for a job well done. Congrats to all the presenters and a big thank you to everyone who helped plan and execute the event alongside all of our sponsors. Pictures from the event can be found here.

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October 5, 2016: Congrats to Dr. Aimee Ryan and Zehra Khoja, our winners of the 3 Minute Thesis Competition yesterday! Thanks to everyone (Drs. Rosenblatt, Ryan, & Slim as well as Luan Tran & Zehra Khoja) who participated - it was a pleasure listening to you all. Pictures from the event can be seen here.

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October 4, 2016: Congratulations to Marie-Julie Allard from Dr. Guillaume Sébire's lab in this feature on 30 young professionals under 30 years old with an inspiring career path! Listen to the broadcast here.

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September 22, 2016: Congratulations to Dr. Pia Wintermark for her new website catered to parents of babies treated with hypothermia!

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July 15, 2016: Congratulations to Dr. David Rosenblatt and Dr. Constantin Polychronakos, recipients of the CIHR Project Scheme Grants! Congratulations to Dr. Jacquetta Trasler for receiving a CIHR Foundation Grant!

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June 23, 2016: Congratulations to the winners of travel awards from the Pediatric Research Office this year since September: 

• Dr. Mahmoud Aarabi - Dr. Jacquetta Trasler lab

• Laleh Abbassi - Dr. Daniel Dufort lab

• Renata Bahous - Dr. Rima Rozen lab

• Emma Brasell - Dr. Paul Goodyer lab

• Gabrielle Denis-Laroque - Dr. Janet Rennick lab

• Erin Hessey - Dr. Michele Zappitelli lab

• Dr. Nancy Levesque - Dr. Rima Rozen lab

• Kelly McMahon - Dr. Michele Zappitelli lab

• Dr. Touhidur Rashid Opu - Dr. Daniel Dufort lab

• Shiva Shafiei - Dr. Daniel Dufort lab

 

June 23, 2016: Congratulations to Dr. Robert Koenekoop who was just approved by Health Canada and McGill for a placebo controlled trial that will start this year. A note from Dr. Koenekoop about this exciting venture:
"Previously thought to be untreatable and incurable, the inherited retinal degenerations (IRD) that lead to human blindness are entering a new phase of excitement. After twenty years of genetic and genomic discoveries leading to insights into disease mechanisms and disease pathways, we are now entering a phase of treatment discoveries for diseases like retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA). One of the key recent discoveries is that there are three populations of photoreceptors in these diseased and dying retinas of children and adults. One population is not seeing because of cell death, another population is seeing because they are still alive, but the new discovery is that there is a third population of non seeing cells that are actually alive, dormant and sleeping. They can be woken up with gene replacement, genetic editing and pharmacological agents. We started a program of drug testing with QLT Inc in 2009, testing efficacy and safety in children with specific mutations in RPE65 and LRAT. We then tested adults. Both groups show significant improvements in fields and vision and functional MRI of the brain in most patients. We published these exciting results in Lancet and PLOS one. Now we are preparing for a placebo controlled trial, just approved by Health Canada and McGill. We will start this year."

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June 9, 2016: The winners of the Child Health Research Day oral presentations are Renata Bahous (Rima Rozen lab) and Meaghan Boileau (Kolja Eppert lab). Congratulations!

 

May 7, 2016: Congratulations to Dr. Robert Platt who has been awarded the MCHF Award of Excellence! More details to come soon on the award ceremony taking place May. Read  more about it on Page 7 of this document.

 

April 28, 2016: Congratulations to all FRQS bursary and scholarship awardees from the CHHD Program:

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• Investigators:

  • Dr. Cristian O'Flaherty

  • Dr. Genevieve Bernard

  • Dr. Isabelle Gagnon

  • Dr. Pia Wintermark
     

• Trainees:

  • Meaghan Boileau (MSc) - Kolja Eppert lab

  • Armin Yazdani (PhD) - Pia Wintermark lab

  • Heather Duncan (PhD) - Kolja Eppert lab

  • Kelly McMahon (PhD) - Michele Zappitelli lab

  • Nick DeJay (PhD) - Nada Jabado lab

  • Renata Bahous (PhD) - Rima Rozen lab

  • Sonia Grandi (PhD) - Robert Platt lab

  • Dr. Mahmoud Aarabi (Postdoc) - Jacquetta Trasler lab

  • Dr. Melissa McConechy (PostDoc) - Nada Jabado lab

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April 15. 2016: Congratulations to the CHHD Program winners of the RI-MUHC Merck Sharpe & Dohme Corp 2015 competition. 3 out of the 4 funded projects are represented by CHHD!
 

• Project: Promoting recovery after pediatric concussion: Feasibility and impact of using dynamic visual attention training on clinical recovery, cerebral functioning and return to sports. Junior Team Leads: Isabelle Gagnon, Marie Brossard-Racine. Mentor: Pierre Lachapelle.
   

• Project: Airway Branch Patterns and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Junior Team Leads: Benjamin Smith, Carolyn Baglole. Mentor: Aimee Ryan.
   

• Project: The paternal contribution to neuroendocrine and neurodevelopmental trajectories of the offspring. Junior Team Leads: Tuong-Vi Nguyen, Marie Brossard-Racine. Mentors: Patricia Monnier, Anna Naumova, Jacquetta Trasler.

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April 4, 2016: Congratulations to Dr. Nada Jabado for her major breakthrough highlighted on the front page of La Presse this week! Read more here

March 31, 2016: Dr. Annette Majnemer for her recent CIHR-SPOR in Chronic Disease grant. Only 5 have been awarded across Canada! Read more here.

 

March 9, 2016: Dr. Isabelle Gagnon was recognized as a co-researcher in a study investigating symptoms of post-concussion in children. This study investigated 3,000 children in collaboration with nine emergency departments across Canada. Listen to her speak about what the study showed on Radio-Canada’s Midi Express (Vancouver) and L'Heure de pointe (Toronto).

 

February 12, 2016: Dr. Michael Kramer discussed his expertise on breastfeeding and views on Lactivism, a book about the politics of breastfeeding, written by Dr. Courtney Jung from the University of Toronto. Listen to his CBC Radio 88.5 FM interview for more detail.

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February 5, 2016: Congratulations to Dr. Nada Jabado’s lab, part of the new Stand Up To Cancer Canada Stem Cell Dream Team, for being selected as one of the top Canadian groups to target brain tumors across the age spectrum! Read more here.

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February 4, 2016: Dr. Nancy Levesque (Dr. Rima Rozen's lab) and Kelly McMahon (Dr. Michele Zappitelli's lab) for their travel awards from the Office of Pediatrics!

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January 26, 2016: Dr. Annette Majnemer has recently been appointed as the Vice-Dean (Education) in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. Join us in congratulating her! Read more here.

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November 19, 2015: Congratulations to Dr. Lisa Starr from Dr. Daniel Dufort’s lab for her recent Toronto Dominion Bank Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Child Health Research Excellence award!

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​October 23, 2015: Congratulations to the following people for being the top oral and poster presenters at our first CHHD Annual Retreat! Each has been awarded a prize of $100 for their strong performance. All presenters at the CHHD Annual Retreat did an excellent job.

 

• Dr. Mahmoud Aarabi (Jacquetta Trasler lab),

• Dr. Nancy Levesque (Rima Rozen lab)

• Maha Al Riyami (Constantin Polychronakos lab) and

• Annie Poon (Pia Wintermark lab)

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August 27, 2015: Congratulations to Julie Louli from Dr. Janet Rennick’s lab and Sara Chisling from Dr. Kolja Eppert’s lab for being the top 2 presenters at the Summer Student Research Day! Each has been awarded a prize of $100 for their strong performance. All presenters at the Summer Student Research Day did very well and provided excellent quality of talks and presentations!

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August 3, 2015: Congratulations to Dr. Maryam Oskoui and Dr. Michael Shevell for their recent Nature Communications publication! Read more here 

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July 22, 2015: Congratulations to Dr. Robert Platt and Dr. Janusz Rak on their recently acquired Foundation Grants!

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July 13, 2015: Congratulations to Dr. Genevieve Bernard for her recent Nature Communications publication! 

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May 20, 2015: Congratulations to Dr. Beth Foster for being a recent recipient of the Shire Research Award of Excellence! Read more about it here.