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).

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...

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

A new issue of the Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases has recently been released. Read it below: Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases: Volume 7, issue 2 *Hanns is joint editor in...

On #RareDiseaseDay, ENMC launches white paper for shared decision making in NMD research

Two years ago, the European Neuromuscular Centre (ENMC) held a special meeting to explore the position of neuromuscular patients in Shared-Decision-Making (SDM) and develop recommendations. One of the most effective...

New pan-Canadian neuromuscular network unites doctors, researchers and patients for better research and care

Network lead Dr Hanns Lochmüller In case you missed it! Exciting news for Canadian NMD networking. We're excited to share news of the launch of our...

Good things come in 3s: New publications arising from EU funded collaborations on biomarker research and discovery

We are pleased to have been involved in this trio of papers examining biomarkers and genetic modifiers in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) and Becker Muscular Dystrophy (BMD). These studies were...

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