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NeuroSphere Announces New Ignite Grant Recipients
Published: 19 March 2021
NeuroSphere, ±«ÓćÖ±²„ās neuroscience innovation accelerator, is pleased to announce the 12 award recipients from its second Ignite Grant Competition.
As the first of two phases in the HBHL Neuro-Commercialization Grants program,Ā the objective of the Ignite Grants isĀ to support small-scale validation and proof-of-principle efforts in the development of a neuroscience-related technology. The second phase of the program, the Accelerate Grants, is meant to support research aimed at improving a technology's commercial potential and to position it for commercial development.
Read more about the Ignite grants and see the recipients from both competitions.
Ignite Grant Competition II Recipients
Principal Investigator | Project Title |
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Salah El Mestikawy | Development of LMB1-01-002, a first in class product candidate to target anorexia |
Tuong-Vi Nguyen | Economic Impact Calculator for Perinatal Mental Health Disorders |
Antonia Arnaert | Prototype Development of the āSmart Backā Wearable Health Device to Prevent and Manage Recurrent Low Back Pain among Adults |
PatrĆcia Pelufo Silveira | Building capacity for discovery and innovation in genomic datasets: the ePRS Cluster |
Nancy Mayo | GoHand to Enhance Recovery of Arm and Hand Function Post-Stroke |
Simon Wing | A Novel Assay for Identification of Inhibitors of a Deubiquitinating Enzyme for the Treatment of Parkinson's Disease |
Derek Bowie | Stable expression cell line of a theraptuically relevant AMPA receptor |
Timothy Kennedy | Polyglycerol dendrimer-based substrate for enhanced long-term cell culture |
Philippe Gros | Structure of USP15/inhibitor complexes to guide the discovery of new anti-inflammatory drugs |
Thomas Durcan | O2O - Organoid to Operator: The pathway to rapid and industry-standard dissemination of brain organoids to external users |
Sylvain Williams | Development of machine learning neuronal decoders predicting preclinical drug efficacy for Alzheimer's disease |
Amir Shmuel | Developing and evaluating methods for screening subjects and training subjects to stay still in mock scanners and MRI scanners |