Research into vision diseases boosted by structuring funding
The Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM) is proud to announce that Dr. Michel Cayouette, Director of the Cellular Neurobiology Research Unit and Full Professor in the Department of Medicine at Université de Montréal, has received a major grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Dr. Michael Housset, Associate Researcher in the Cellular Neurobiology Research Unit, is also a co-applicant on this project.
A research project with vision
Michel Cayouette and his IRCM research team receive $1,357,876 over a five-year period for the project Light as a Morphogen: Unraveling a Novel Planar Cell Polarity Pathway in Retinal Function and Disease. This project will study how light enables the precise organization of retinal cells to optimize vision, as well as the influence of this mechanism in various eye diseases leading to blindness.
The IRCM warmly thanks all those who reviewed their colleagues' funding applications as part of the internal review process. We also extend our warmest thanks to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
Academic laboratories like those at IRCM depend on the public commitment of organizations like CIHR. This support makes it possible to push back the frontiers of knowledge, save lives, reduce long-term costs for healthcare systems and train the next generation of scientists, creating the conditions necessary for the emergence of innovative treatments, the prevention of chronic diseases and sustainable improvements in quality of life.
