Crucial cornerstones
DMRF equipment grants enable Dalhousie medical researchers to set up and equip their laboratories, then build and advance their research programs. The Foundation has awarded over $5 million in equipment grants over the past 30 years. Faculty members say this support has been pivotal to their research achievements.
Fostering top talent: Meet our most recent equipment grant recipients
DMRF awarded $85,913 in equipment grants to talented investigators its 2010-11 Equipment Grant Competition.
2011 equipment grant recipients:
- Dr. Roy Duncan,
Microbiology & Immunology - $11,588 to replace essential cell-culture equipment
- Dr. James Fawcett, Pharmacology and Surgery - $30,000 for laser equipment to enhance live-cell imaging capacities
- Dr. Evgeny Pavlov, Physiology & Biophysics - $29,876 for cell culture and other equipment needed to establish a new laboratory
- Dr. Kazue Semba, Anatomy & Neurobiology - $14,449 for equipment used in sleep restriction studies
2010 equipment grant recipients:
- Dr. Jeremy Brown, Biomedical Engineering and Surgery - $10,000 for equipment to establish a fibre optics lab for developing medical imaging devices
- Dr. Susan Bryson, Craig Chair in Autism Research - $28,704 for equipment to record and analyze behaviour of children with autism
- Dr. Gail Eskes, Psychiatry - $10,000 for eye-tracking equipment to assess attention in people with stroke and Parkinson's disease
- Dr. Angelo Iulianella, Anatomy & Neurobiology - $29,900 for microscope and incubator equipment to study development of the nervous system
- Dr. Claudio Slamovits, Biochemistgry & Molecular Biology - $13,500 for micro-array, watger bath and incubator equipment for studying parasitic microbes
- Dr. Christopher Sinal, Pharmacology - $27,000 for key equipment to study metabolism and obesity
- Dr. Aarnoud van der Spoel, Pediatrics - $10,000 for essential equipment for lipid research