Congratulations to our 2021 NSERC Grant recipients!

Rauscher Gorges Parker Beristain — Dr. Alexander Rauscher, Dr. Matthias Görges, Dr. Seth Parker, and Dr. Alexander Beristain

Congratulations to the following BCCHR investigators who were awarded NSERC funding:

2021 NSERC Discovery grants program

Dr. Alexander Rauscher for the project, "Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging of anisotropic biological tissues"
Dr. Matthias Görges for the project, "A bi-directional data sharing platform for researchers and citizen science"
Dr. Seth Parker for the project, "Interrogating amino acid transport and organelle exchange"

2021 NSERC Research Tools and Instruments grants program

Dr. Alexander Beristain for the project, "Hypoxia culture suite"

The NSERC Discovery grants program assists in promoting and maintaining a diversified base of high quality research capability in the natural sciences and engineering in Canadian universities, fostering research excellence, and providing a stimulating environment for research training.

The NSERC Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) grants foster and enhance the discovery, innovation, and training capability of university researchers in the natural sciences and engineering by supporting the purchase of research equipment.

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