2007
"The Canadian Psychiatric Research Foundation provided me with my first funded research opportunity in 1983. Without those first years of grant renewals, I may never have developed a career as a clinician researcher in mood disorders.”

Dr. Sidney Kennedy
Psychiatrist-in-Chief
University Health Network
Toronto, Ontario

The following research projects have been recommended for funding by CPRF’s Professional Advisory Board and approved by the Board of Directors.

Dr. Florin Dolcos University of Alberta
"The Impact of Emotion on Cognition: fMRI Investigation of Individual Differences in the Neural Correlates of Emotional Processing in Health and Depressed Groups"

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This project is funded in part through the generous support of the Earl and Renee Lyons Endowment Fund Research Award..


RBC Foundation Research Award

Dr. Paul Arnold, University of Toronto

"Glutamate Neurotransmission in OCD: Genetic Study of a Candidate Biological System"
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This project is funded through the generous support of RBC Foundation


Schizophrenia Research Award


Dr. David Mamo, University of Toronto

"Antipsychotic Polypharmacy in Schizophrenia"
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This project is funded through the generous support of Schizophrenia Society of Canada.




Dr. Erin Michalak, University of British Columbia
"Mood Monitoring as a Moderator of Relapse in Bipolar Disorder"
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CIBC World Markets Children's Miracle Award


Dr. Dave Saint-Amour, University of Montreal

"Electrophysiological Assessment of Sensory Integration Autism"
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This project is funded through the generous support of CIBC World Market's Children's Foundation

Neurobiology of Psychiatric Disorders and Addictions Program

These projects are funded jointly in partnership with the following organizations:

"Partnerships play a key role in CIHR's vision. With our partners we can accelerate the creation of new ideas and their translation into new clinical practices, innovative health policies and successful business ventures. Since 2003, collaborations between CIHR and Canada’s Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies (Rx&D), the Canadian Psychiatric Research Foundation, CIHR’s Institute of Neurosciences and Mental Health and AstraZeneca have helped support the development of fundamental science essential to understanding and eventually treating numerous psychiatric disorders such as depression, anxiety and schizophrenia."
Dr. David Brener
Director of Research Translation Programs
Canadian Institutes of Health Research


Partnered Awards: Year II (up to $100,000)


Dr. Paul Albert, University of Ottawa
"DNA methylation at a novel functional polymorphism of the serotonin-1A receptor gene promoter."
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Dr. Diane Cox, University of Alberta
"NPAS3, encoding a brain transcription factor, as a causative gene for schizophrenia."
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Dr. Steven Robert Laviolette, University of Western Ontario, Schulich School of Medicine
"Neural mechanisms of nicotine addiction and vulnerability: Role of dopamine transmission in the acute versus dependent phases of nicotine exposure."
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