听 听听Our Congratulations go out to:

December 2024

• Tomoko Ohyama on her promotion to Associate Professor, with tenure, in the Department of Biology. This is an important 2nd step in an academic鈥檚 career, and our heart-felt congratulations go out to Tomoko for her achievement.

November 2024

• Franco Carli for his work developing the concept of 鈥�prehabilitation鈥� for patients before surgery at the MUHC. Prehabilitation is a multimodal program initiated before surgery. A person is evaluated for their exercise tolerance, physical strength, nutrition and mental health, and a customized plan is drawn up for them by a multidisciplinary team. Perioperative physicians, nurses, kinesiologists, physiotherapists, and nutritionists are all included and provide their expertise. The prehabilitation program generally spans 4 to 5 weeks before surgery and will usually include aerobic and strength exercises, protein and energy supplementation, anti-anxiety strategies, managing blood sugar levels, and alcohol and smoking cessation. This program is gaining increased interest at the international level, most recently at the 2024 American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress, where Dr. Liane Feldman, Surgeon-in-Chief and Medical Director of the MUHC Surgical Mission, the MUHC Prehabilitation Program.

October 2024

• Richard Hovey (PI) and Marc O Martel (co-I) and others for obtaining a 1 year, $100K, award for their research project entitled 鈥� 鈥�.
• Etiennne Vachon-Presseau (PI) , Luda Diatchenko, Jeff Mogil, Mathieu Roy and others (all co-Is) on obtaining a four year, $623K, award for their research project entitled 鈥� 鈥�
• Mark Ware (co-I) and others for obtaining a 5 year, $757K award for their research project entitled 鈥� 鈥�
• Magali Millecamps on being hired as a faculty member by the Facult茅 de m茅decine v茅t茅rinaire of the UdeM. Her new position starts Dec 1^st, 2024. We are sad to see her leave 捆绑SM社区 after these many years but we wish her every success in her new tenure-track position
• Hannah Derue for being selected as one of nine province-wide finalists for the Defi Media competition in the public communications in November.Hannah will be representing 捆绑SM社区. Her talk is entitled 鈥淧ain and Pleasure: studying the intersection of chronic pain and opioids鈥�.

September 2024

• 鈥� who started his career as a research assistant with Ron Melzack 鈥� on being the co-recipient of this Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience from the Society for Neurscience.
• Lindsay Neuert on her selection as graphic designer/photographer for the PCSA.

August 2024

• Pablo Ingelmo and the entire team at the Edwards Family Interdisciplinary Centre for Complex Pain on receiving the from the Montreal

  Children鈥檚 Hospital.

• Christophe Tanguay-Sabourin on receiving the 鈥� 鈥� from the FRQ. This award is given to a student whose publication is judged to be important each month. The paper that Christophe was recognized for is the paper from the Vachon-Presseau lab on 鈥淎 prognostic risk score for development and spread of chronic pain.鈥�
• Christophe Tanguay-Sabourin and the Vachon-Presseau lab for winning the Horizon Award (2024). This was made in recognition of their Nature Medicine 鈥淎 prognostic risk score for development and spread of chronic pain鈥�.

听 听 听 听 听 听 听 The award is self-described as 鈥渃elebrating and advancing breakthroughs in pain research by recognizing the most groundbreaking scientific work in the field with a $10k award, we both honor it and contribute to its continuation鈥�

听 听 听 听 听 听 听 ultimately improving the lives of those affected by pain

July 2024

• Alfredo on his NSERC Discovery Grant on 鈥淎 New Role of Reactive Astrogliosis on Spinal Cord Dorsal Horn Neuronal Mitochondrial Function and Sensitization鈥� (5 yrs/$39K).
• Etienne on his CIHR project grant entitled 鈥淒eveloping inclusive, ethical, and responsible markers for chronic pain conditions鈥� (4yrs, $623K). Co-investigators on this grant include Luda, Jeff and Mathieu. Well done all!
• Etienne on being named a new CRC Chair in chronic pain
• Marc O on having his CRC Chair in chronic pain, mental health and addiction renewed
• Mathieu on having his CRC Chair in brain imaging of experimental and chronic pain renewed
• Hannah Cho on being elected VP Operations for the PCSA

June 2024

• The Louise and Alan Edwards Awards in Pain Research have been announced.

  Congratulations to all of those funded:

• Mick Sullivan, Feasibility and Acceptability of an Evidence-Informed Brief Virtual Intervention to Reduce Perceptions of Injustice in Individuals with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain

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• For obtaining QPRN pilot project funding:

Audrey Grant, Immunological and neurological quantitative traits to dissect causal genetic pathways leading to chronic pain

Emerson Krock, Protease regulation of DRG extracellular matrix in chemotherapy pain

Gabrielle Page, Detecting circadian rhythms of blood biomarkers at home in people with chronic low back pain

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• Allutas Alhamwi on receiving a CGSM-CIHR scholarship!
• Christophe Tanguay-Sabourin on being awarded a CIHR-Vanier scholarship!
• Audrey Grant on receiving a NFRF (New Frontiers in Research Fund) grant for a study on 鈥漅educing local air pollution exposure among adolescents with asthma in Cotonou,Benin鈥�

May 2024

• Emerson Krock on receiving a Chercheur-Boursier salary award from the FRQ-S

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• Hong Qian Wang, Zhang Lab, on receiving a FRQ Masters Studentship
• LuQi (Lucky) Wang, Zhang Lab, HBHL undergrad research summer studentship
• Sam Zhou, Zhang Lab, on receiving a FRQ PhD fellowship
• Elise Desbarats, Roy Lab, on receiving a NSERC-CGS-D Phd Fellowship
• Haoyi Qui, Sharif-Naeini Lab, on receiving a CIHR-CGS PhD Fellowship

April 2024

• Valerie Bourassa for having successfully completed her oral defense of her doctoral dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Bourassa!

January 2024

Our members for their recent by the CIHR project grant competition.

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• Claudio Cuello, Identification, development and application of novel neuroserpin inhibitors to correct the NGF deficiency in the Alzheimer's disease pathology, $566,099/3 years.

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• Arkady Khoutorsky, Perineuronal nets around spinal projection neurons in neuropathic pain, $1,132, 200/5 years

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• Arkady Khoutorsky, Yoram Shir, The role of the gut microbiota in mediating pain hypersensitivity and other symptoms of fibromyalgia, $1,361,700/5 years.

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• Alfredo Ribeiro-da-Silva, Yves De Koninck, Targeting inhibitory synaptic pruning for treatment of Neuropathic Pain, $952.425/5 years.