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Two IRIC investigators receive a grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Published on juillet 23, 2018
Kathy Borden and Marc Therrien each received a grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), respectively as part of the Project Grant: Spring 2018 competition and the Foundation Grant: 2017-2018 competition.
Kathy Borden, Principal Investigator, Structure and Function of the Cell Nucleus research unit at IRIC and Full Professor, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, was awarded a grant of $784,126, over five years, for her project “A novel form of alternative polyadenylation”.
Marc Therrien, Scientific Director at IRIC and Principal Investigator, Intracellular Signalling research unit, IRIC, was awarded a grant for his project ‘RAS-MAPK signal transduction in normal and cancer cells”, worth $3,273,064 over 7 years. Several IRIC co-investigators will work on it: Anne Marinier, Sylvain Meloche, Matthew J. Smith and Pierre Thibault.
More information about the Project Grant: Spring 2018 competition
More information about the Foundation Grant: 2017-2018 competition