Researchers successful with CIHR

 

Several Concordia researchers had much to celebrate recently after receiving word that they were successful with their funding applications to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

In the Operating Grants Competition, Jim Pfaus, who is also a member of the Centre for Studies in Behavioural Neurobiology (CSBN), received $93,070 per year for the next four years as principal investigator (PI) of a project titled “Neural and behavioural mechanisms of conditioned sexual response."

In the same competition, another CSBN member, Peter Shizgal, received $78,802 per year for the next five years for his project, titled "Neural mechanisms of reward."

The Centre de recherche en développement humain's (CRDH) Paul Hastings and Lisa Serbin, along with the University of Manitoba's Rosemary Mills, will collectively receive $148,290 per year for five years as co-principal investigators on a project titled "Harnessing and extending Canadian developmental trajectories research on early-emerging internalizing problems,” which also features Concordia CRDH members Dale Stack, Professor Emeritus Alex Schwartzman, and Jamshid Etezadi.

In the Pilot Projects Grants in Aging Competition, Natalie Phillips, of the Psychology department, along with external co-investigators Jean-Pierre Gagne and Daniel Saumier, will receive $49,793 in equipment and operations funds for their one-year project, titled "Perceptual and cognitive mechanisms of audio-visual speech perception in aging."