Research Canada

Thanks to all the donations we receive each year, we are now able to fund two projects in Canada!

We recently announced a promising partnership with the McGill University and Prof. Bowie. More information here!

And we still fund a researcher full time on SynGAP1 at Ste Justine, Montréal:

Maria Carrero-Munoz (Sainte Justine, Montreal) explains why the support of Overcome SynGAP1 is important.

RESEARCH

– Publications
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2925262/

– Dr Michaud and his team at Ste Justine

Jacques Michaud, M.D.
Dr Jacques Michaud is a physician in the Department of Medical Genetics at the CHU Sainte-Justine.
See a nice video interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NE7FgFBO_o

Graziella Di Cristo – PhD.
Graziella Di Cristo is an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the Université de Montréal. In 2007, she received the Young Investigator Award from the NARSAD, an American organization dedicated to research on mental illness.

Jean-Claude Lacaille – PhD.
Jean-Claude Lacaille is full professor in the Department of Physiology of the Faculty of Medicine at the Université de Montréal.

More info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYNGAP1
https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/gene/SYNGAP1