by xplorelab | Oct 28, 2016 | Awards, Meetings, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Congratulations to the following lab participants at the 2016 Till & McCulloch Meeting in Whistler BC: PhD trainee Marissa Lithopoulos won a travel award, Dr. Lars Mense won a Best Poster Award, Clinical Translation category, and Chanèle Cyr-Depauw received a Stem...
by xplorelab | Oct 29, 2015 | Awards, Meetings
Xplore Lab had many reasons to celebrate at the 2015 Till & McCulloch Meeting in Toronto. Dr. Mehdi Shafa (postdoctoral fellow) was chosen as runner-up for the best oral presentation; Marissa Lithopoulos (MSc trainee) won the best image for the “People’s Choice”...
by xplorelab | Aug 6, 2015 | Awards, Funding, Media, Research
Dr. Thébaud and his research were recently featured in the Ottawa Citizen. The article focused on Dr. Thébaud’s research findings that show damaged lungs of premature infants could benefit from therapy using regenerative medicine. Read the article here, or download a...
by xplorelab | Jul 17, 2015 | Awards, Funding, Research
Dr. Thébaud and his team have been awarded a prestigious 7-year Foundation Scheme grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) valued at $3.2 million to support the development of three different kinds of stem cell treatments for babies with...
by xplorelab | Dec 1, 2014 | Awards, Funding, Research
The Lung Association, through the Breathing as One Campaign for Lung Research, recently awarded Dr. Thébaud funding to support his team’s research into correcting surfactant protein genetic mutations that cause fatal respiratory distress in newborn infants. For more...
by xplorelab | Jun 23, 2014 | Awards, Funding, Research
Xplore lab has received a Clinical Translation Impact Grant in the amount of $99,000 from the Canadian Stem Cell Network to continue their work on pre-clinical optimization of umbilical cord-derived perivascular cells for neonatal lung injury. This study will allow us...
