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Meet brain and eye researcher Dr. Pierre Mattar
April 25, 2022
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Dr. Pierre Mattar is doing the groundwork needed to develop treatments for vision loss
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Researchers at The Ottawa Hospital awarded 18 CIHR grants worth more than $11 million
February 5, 2022
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These projects will advance science and improve health in areas such as tuberculosis, blood disease, prostate cancer, heart disease, muscle repair, sleep apnea, brain cancer, medical imaging, virtual care, prehab, intellectual disability, sarcoma, CA
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$1.7 million to advance research on colon cancer, brain development, kidney disease and severe fluid loss
July 20, 2018
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Four research groups at The Ottawa Hospital, affiliated with the University of Ottawa, have been awarded $1.7 million in the most recent project grant competition from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Their projects will advance sci
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Researchers find protein that keeps DNA from collapsing
August 17, 2016
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As the cells in our bodies divide to make new ones, DNA is split apart and copied. In a paper published in Cell Death and Disease, Dr. David Picketts and his team found that a protein called ATRX can keep this replicating DNA from collapsing when
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Mice with big brains provide insight into brain regeneration and developmental disorders
May 15, 2012
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Scientists at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) and the University of Ottawa (uOttawa) have discovered that mice that lack a gene called Snf2l have brains that are 35 per cent larger than normal. The research, led by Dr. David Picketts an
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