Funded Research Project
Inuit Futures and Development Study
2023-2024
HELPING INDIGENOUS YOUTH IN THEIR COMMUNITIES Indigenous peoples are the fastest growing population in Canada. their children have asuicide rate that is 5 to 7 times higher than non-Indigenous children. They are 3 timesmore likely to be involved with the Direction of Youth Protection than any othercommunity in Quebec. The arts program emerged as a […]
Principal investigator

Pulmonary artery pressure, neonate
2021-2022
Currently, the method for diagnosis and follow-up of pulmonary hypertension is echocardiography. Unfortunately, this examination requires significant technical skill, a cumbersome device, and patient manipulation. It is not uncommon for the newborn’s hypertension to worsen from the manipulations required to perform the examination. The purpose of this project is to evaluate the accuracy of pulmonary […]
Principal investigator
- Dr Etienne Fortin, Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, FMSS Department of Pediatrics, Université de Sherbrooke
Metabolic and cardiovascular health

Sphingolipidoses include Gaucher’s disease, Krabbe’s disease, Fabry’s disease, Niemann-Pick (types A/B/C), metachromatic leukodystrophy, GM1 and GM2 gangliosidosis, Sandhoff disease and Farber disease.
Principal investigator
- Pr Christiane Auray-Blais, Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences FMSS Department of Pediatrics, Université de Sherbrooke
Metabolic and cardiovascular health

QUALITY – Heart malformation
2021-2022
Congenital heart defects affect >1 in 100 children (60 times more common than cancer). They increase the risk of hospitalization by 20 times and are responsible for 4% of all hospital admissions in children.
Principal investigator
- Dr Frederic Dallaire, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences FMSS Department of Pediatrics, Université de Sherbrooke
Metabolic and cardiovascular health

Excess weight and obesity are defined as an excessive accumulation of body fat. In Canada, 29% of children are overweight or obese and the majority (~70%) of them will remain overweight as adults.
Principal investigator
- Dr. Luigi Bouchard, Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences FMSS Department of Biochemistry and Genomics Function, University of Sherbrooke
Metabolic and cardiovascular health

Birth asphyxia and resulting neonatal encephalopathy (NE) in full-term babies is a major cause of death and severe neurodevelopmental disabilities, including cerebral palsy and intellectual disability.
Principal investigator
- Professor Marie Brossard-Racine, Canada Research Chair in Brain and Child Development / Associate Professor at McGill University
Neurodevelopment and mental health Perinatal, neonatal and obstetrics

This project involves an innovative approach using state-of-the-art techniques, including high-dimensional immunophenotyping combined with single-cell transcriptome analysis (CITE-seq), which allows for the simultaneous study of RNA and proteins from a single cell.
Principal investigator
- Dr Laurence Chapuy, Researcher, Pediatric Gastroenterologist, Assistant Professor, McGill University Health Centre, McGill University
Cancer Inflammations and infections

Asymptomatic thrombosis, cancer
2021-2022
This project has several innovative elements. First, the concept of incidentally discovered asymptomatic VTE, or VTE, is largely unstudied in pediatrics, unlike its adult equivalent.
Principal investigator
- Dre Marie-Claude Pelland-Marcotte, Associate researcher, Reproduction, Maternal and Child Health Axis, CHUL
Cancer Inflammations and infections

When a child is born very prematurely, the brain is not fully mature. Several crucial stages of brain development occur in the weeks following birth.
Principal investigator
- Dr. Mireille Guillot, Associate researcher, Reproduction, Maternal and Child Health Axis, CHUL
Neurodevelopment and mental health Perinatal, neonatal and obstetrics

Research network, perinatal determinants
2021-2022
The World Health Organization has included global child health in its priorities for action to achieve marked and sustained improvements in the health of the world’s population by 2030.
Principal investigator
Perinatal, neonatal and obstetrics
