2010 Molly Appeal for Neuroscience
Erin Mazerolle
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| Neuroscience trainee Erin Mazerolle is making discoveries that will someday help in diagnosing and treating people with neurological diseases. Your gift to this year’s Molly Appeal will support bright minds like Erin’s – the very future of medical research.
The brain and nervous system are vulnerable to more than a thousand diseases, disorders and injuries. These include Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, Lou Gehrig’s disease, stroke, vision loss, chronic neuropathic pain, spinal cord injury and many, many more. No cure has yet been found for these disabling conditions, which will strike one in every three Canadians. |
Research gives us hope.
Every day neuroscience researchers at Dalhousie Medical School are making new discoveries. They are revealing the secrets of the brain and the nervous system—and of the disorders that afflict them. They are inventing and testing new diagnostics, drugs, treatments and techniques that promise to save people from suffering, disability and premature death.
The future starts now.
Every penny of this year’s Molly Appeal will go to support the Molly Neuroscience Training Program. This program will attract some of the country’s brightest young minds to Dalhousie Medical School to pursue neuroscience careers with our researchers—and lay the groundwork for the neuroscience research of the future.
Trainees are essential.
Our neuroscience researchers need talented trainees to work in their research programs, so they can do more experiments to answer more questions to help more people sooner. Through their hard work, enthusiasm, new ideas and fresh perspectives, trainees make an enormous impact on the overall success of our research efforts. Our researchers say, “We can’t do it without them!”
Molly Moore, our namesake always said, “Today’s science is tomorrow’s cures.”
We say, “Today’s trainees are tomorrow’s researchers.” Please give.
Faces of Molly 2010-2011:
Meet some of our top neuroscience researchers who urgently need graduate students or postdoctoral fellows to work on leading-edge research projects:
Dr. Alan Fine studies learning and memory in zebrafish
Dr. Don Weaver invents promising new Alzheimer drugs
Dr. Ken Rockwood uses math to study the aging brain
Dr. Rob Brownstone deciphers spinal cord’s control of walking
Dr. Vic Rafuse pursues stem cell treatments for Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS)
Dr. Gail Eskes prepares ‘Cognitive Repair Kit’ for stroke patients
Dr. Jana Sawynok develops skin cream for shingles and other neuropathic pain
Dr. Ryan D’Arcy takes brain imaging to new frontiers
Erin Mazerolle images ‘white matter’ at work
Did You Know?
Molly Appeal launches! - September 7, 2010
Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation's Molly Appeal for 2010-11 is dedicated to neuroscience research at the Dalhousie Medical School. This year's campaign will raise funds for the Molly Neuroscience Training Program.
Neuroscience researchers break new ground... Learn about the many neuroscience research initiatives happening in the Maritimes at Dalhousie Faculty of Medicine by visiting our Faces of Molly section.
2010-2011 campaign for neuroscience research (pdf)