St. Boniface Hospital Research

Congratulations to Paul Fernyhough, PhD, Director of the Division of Neurodegenerative Disorders, and Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Manitoba, who recently received a $110,000 (USD) project grant from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (USA).

The project, High Content Screening of Sensory Neurons, will use high content protein assays to determine impact of diabetes on a large array of proteins relevant to axon regeneration in the peripheral nervous system. The objective is to define signal transduction pathways and cytokine expression changes modulated by type 1 diabetes in adult sensory neurons.

Fernyhough was also named co-Principal Investigator of a $477,000 (USD) JDRF grant to study Diabetic Neuropathy, Neuronal Insulin and It’s Interaction with AGE-RAGE. Fernyhough will be working together with University of Calgary’s Douglas Zochodne and Cory Toth.

Click here for more information on Dr. Fernyhough’s research.