Soumis par Asthma_Workplace le mar, 2008-04-15 09:20
April 8, 2008
We submitted an interesting number of applications to the Scientific Committee for the scholarship and project competitions, which had a March 7 deadline. We are pleased to announce the submissions that were approved by the committee and the Board of Directors.
For the scholarship competition, we received five applications in the postdoctoral fellow category, three in the master’s and Ph.D. student category, and one in the summer student category. The following students have been recommended to the Board of Directors by the Scientific Committee and will be receiving funding:
- Marie-Ève Rochon, summer student, supervised by Karim Maghni Ph.D.;
- Shahryar Alipour Milajerdi, master’s student, supervised by Dr. Manon Labrecque;
- Samah Chiry, master’s student, supervised by Dr. Catherine Lemière;
- Maxine Boudreau, Ph.D. student, supervised by Kim Lavoie Ph.D. and Simon Bacon, Ph.D.;
- David Miedinger, Ph.D. student, supervised by Dr. Jean-Luc Malo;
- Naoya Takeda, postdoctoral fellow, supervised by Qutayba Hamid Ph.D.;
- Gregory Moullec,postdoctoral fellow, supervised by Dr. Manon Labrecque.
For the project competition, the members of the Scientific Committee and the Board selected seven projects. One project that involves a researcher from the Léa-Roback Research Center on Social Inequalities in Health, in Montreal, which is supported under the same Institute of Population and Public Health program, will receive joint funding from the two centers. Several projects include collaborators from other provinces and other countries, as well as scientific and strategic partners. The following projects were chosen:
- Anxiété et dépression chez des sujets atteints d’asthme professionnel et effets sur l’évolution médicale de l’asthme
Researchers : Manon Labrecque, MD MSC , Kim Lavoie PHD Simon Bacon PHD, Jean-Luc Malo MD André Cartier MD
Student : Gregory Moullec, postdoctoral fellow - Asthme professionnel: identification d’un réseau de médecins sentinelles et comparaison avec les cas reconnus par les comités des maladies professionnelles pulmonaires de la CSST
Researchers : JL Malo MD, Hôpital Sacré-Cœur de Montréal, L De Guire MD, S Provencher MD, F Labrèche PhD, Institut national de la santé publique du Québec. Collaborators: M Labrecque MD, C Lemière MD, A Cartier MD, Hôpital Sacré-Cœur de Montréal; D Boucher MD, CSST. Strategic Partner: J Turcot PhD, CSST.
Student: David Miedinger, PhD student - Coûts de l’asthme professionnel et programmes de réadaptation sociale.
Researchers : JL Malo MD1, M Labrecque MD MSc1, A Cartier MD1, Catherine Lemière MD, MSc1, Jules Turcot PhD2; MV Zunzunegui PhD3, 1. Centre asthme et travail; 2. CSST; 3. Centre Léa-Roback sur les inégalités sociales de la santé. - Development and validation of a novel procedure to increase threshold detection of specific IgEs to agents inducing occupational asthma: Application to snow crab sensitization – International collaboration Canada-Denmark
Researchers: K Maghni1, DSc, PhD, A Cartier1, MD, D Gautrin1, PhD, R Castaño1, MD, MSc,, J H Bonlokke2, MD, PhD, T Sigsgaard2, MD, PhD. 1Asthma in the Workplace Centre; 2 Aarhus University, Denmark.
Student: Marie-Eve Rochon, summer student - Rhinite et asthme professionnels, et métalloprotéinases. Researchers : M. Desrosiers, M. Labrecque MD, A. Cartier MD, K. Maghni PhD, J-L. Malo MD, Centre asthme et travail, O. Vandenplas, Yvoir, Belgique. Student : R. Castano, postdoctoral fellow
- The impact of daily psychological stress at work on occupational asthma
Researchers: Simon Bacon (PI), Kim Lavoie, Manon Labrecque, Catherine Lemière, Jean-Luc Malo, Denyse Gautrin, André Cartier, Blaine Ditto. Partner: IRSST
Student: Maxine Boudreau PhD student ; - Toxicité pulmonaire des nanoparticules (NPs) de dioxyde de titane inhalées: Importance de l’état d’agglomération des NPs.
Researchers : Karim Maghni, PhD, Centre asthme et travail, Ginette Truchon, toxicologue, Stéphane Hallé, Ing., Kevin Wilkinson, chimiste, Robert Tardif, toxicologue, Yves Cloutier, Ing. Chantale Dion, chimiste, IRSST, Serge Kaliaguine et Do Trong-On, ingénieurs, Université Laval.
Student : Alexandra Noël (IRSST) PhD student.