Grants and funders

We are grateful for the support of numerous funders who make the work of the Lochmüller Lab possible.

Hanns holds the Canada Research Chair in Neuromuscular Genomics and Health and our lab’s work is supported by funding from the Canada Research Chairs program.

We are supported by a CIHR Foundation Grant on Precision Health for Neuromuscular Diseases under grant no. FDN-167281 and by a CIHR Network Catalyst Grant (jointly funded by Muscular Dystrophy Canada) for NMD4C, a neuromuscular network for Canada, under grant no. NG2-170044. Rachel Thompson holds a CIHR postdoctoral fellowship award.

The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) supports equipment in our lab as part of the CRC award.

We are supported by Muscular Dystrophy Canada with a Network Catalyst Grant for NMD4C, a neuromuscular network for Canada (jointly funded by CIHR).

Emily O'Connor's work is supported by a stipend from the French Muscular Dystrophy Association (AFM-Téléthon).

Treatabolome presentations now online

Within the European Solve-RD project, we participate in work to create a "treatabolome" - a database of evidence for treatments for rare disorders linked to the precise genetic defect. Many...

New publications on neuromuscular transmission defects: international collaboration helps find answers

In rare diseases like the congenital myasthenic syndromes and other disorders of neuromuscular transmission, research results are frequently the result of international collaboration. Patients may be seen in clinic in...

Latest edition of the Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases now online – Jun 2020

A new issue of the Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases has recently been released. Read it below: Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases: Volume 7, issue 3 (click to view it at the...

Assembling face shields for the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Lochmüller Lab on Lockdown

While the pandemic is still not over in Canada, and Ontario’s state of emergency will not be lifted before the end of June at the earliest, preparations are underway at...

Awards success for Lochmüller Lab researchers

We are very pleased to announce the success of several Lochmüller Lab team members in recent fellowship and scholarship competitions. Jarred Lau Master's student Jarred Lau...

New publication: Advances in the diagnosis of inherited neuromuscular diseases and implications for therapy development

The neuromuscular field has seen rapid advances in recent years thanks to the increased use of next-generation sequencing and additional omics technologies like RNA sequencing and proteomics. Together with colleagues...

Lochmüller Lab

Hanns Lochmüller and team - research and clinical activities