Funded Research Project

The main objectives of the study The objective of this project is to better understand the factors related to problematic eating attitudes and behaviours (PABA) and to guide programs promoting healthy lifestyles and preventing eating disorders. This will be done by establishing a portrait of the proportion of children in Quebec with ECPD as well […]

The main objectives of the study The objective will be to assess the impacts of political and public health measures related to COVID-19 on support services, perinatal health and their consequences on the development of babies born in the context of a pandemic. The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has exposed vulnerable populations to a global […]

The main objectives of the study The objective of this study is to compare the specific clinical presentation of COVID-19 and immunological responses to infection in children compared to adults, and to determine the duration of immunity over time (kinetics of humoral and cellular immune responses). In order to investigate key questions for the development […]

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.