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Meet the 2018 Discovery Award recipients

Nomazulu Dlamini, MD PhD

Division of Neurology, The Hospital for Sick Children

Studying neural network reorganization in dystonia after childhood basal ganglia stroke

John Trant, PhD

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Windsor

Developing enzymatically-resistant carbohydrate vaccines for treating lung cancer

Ali Abdul-Sater, PhD

School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University

Dissecting the role of TRAF1 in regulating inflammatory and autoimmune diseases

Robert Huber, PhD

Department of Biology, Trent University

Using the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum to study Batten disease

Kyle Biggar, PhD

Department of Biology, Carleton University

Identifying new substrates of SMYD3 and their implication in lung cancer development

Ian Rodrigue-Gervais, PhD

Department of Infectious Diseases, INRS - Institut Armand-Frappier

Examining the function of mitochondrial proteases in flu pathogenesis

Dylan Cooke, PhD

Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University

Mapping of individual variation in brain organization with online detection of EMG activity

Rebecca Shapiro, PhD

Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph

Using genetic and functional genomic analysis to study antifungal drug resistance in Candida auris

Salim Islam, PhD

Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, INRS – Institut Armand-Frappier

Understanding colonization and persistence in bacterial social networking

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Where we've funded research

The Banting Research Foundation has funded promising new investigators from across Canada since 1926. Links to investigator profiles for research funded since 2011 are available on this map.