Funded Research Project

The main objectives of the study A significant number of pregnant women will be infected with SARS-CoV-2 (COVID +) in the coming weeks. The scientific data currently available does not make it possible to determine the severity in pregnant women, the existence of vertical transmission and the longer-term consequences of the infection in newborns and […]

MAIN OBJECTIVE The main objective of the project is to support young people from Nunavik who are experiencing suicidal behaviours reengage with life. Part of this involves helping them dare care, experience agency, imagining a future and reconnecting. This research project, led by Dre Gómez-Carrillo Castro of the MUHC, has four components: art to prevent […]

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 […]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.