Four VHRN students received the Brain Star Award
Elisabeth Andriessen, Khalil Miloudi and Malika Oubaha, all three members of Dr. Mike Sapieha’s laboratory, as well as Marius Chiasseu, member of Dr. Adriana Di Polo’s laboratory, are among the 16 recipients of the Canada-wide Brain Star Award competition, a program of the Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction, designed to recognize the excellence of research done in Canada by students and trainees. Congratulations to the four laureates!
Elisabeth Andriessen
PhD Student, Université de Montréal
Laboratory : Dr Mike Sapieha
Article : Andriessen, E. M., Wilson, A. M., Mawambo, G., Dejda, A., Miloudi, K., Sennlaub, F. and Sapieha, P. (2016), Gut microbiota influences pathological angiogenesis in obesity-driven choroidal neovascularization. EMBO Mol Med, December 1st 2016.
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Marius Chiasseu
PhD Student, Université de Montréal
Laboratory : Dr. Adriana DiPolo
Article : Chiasseu M, Cueva Vargas JL, Destroismaisons L, Vande Velde C, Leclerc N, Di Polo A. Tau Accumulation, Altered Phosphorylation, and Missorting Promote Neurodegeneration in Glaucoma. J Neurosci. 2016 May 25.
Khalil Miloudi
Research fellow, McGill University
Laboratory: Dr. Mike sapieha
Miloudi K, Binet F, Wilson A, Cerani A, Oubaha M, Menard C, Henriques S, Mawambo G, Dejda A, Nguyen PT, Rezende FA, Bourgault S, Kennedy TE, Sapieha P.. Truncated netrin-1 contributes to pathological vascular permeability in diabetic retinopathy. J Clin Invest. 2016 Aug 1;126(8):3006-22. doi: 10.1172/JCI84767. Epub 2016 Jul 11
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