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THUNDER BAY — Researchers at Lakehead University have secured nearly $1.4 million in funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research .
“Lakehead University continues to be a leader in health science research in Northwestern Ontario,” he said. “As these projects demonstrate, we have amazing diversity and extremely applied research in many important areas in health sciences.” His team will conduct research over the course of a year on behalf of Access Open Minds, a Canadian youth mental health network.
Health sciences associate professor Anna Kone will receive over $293,000 to assess the impacts of the pandemic on people from Black and Indigenous communities who have chronic diseases, in a research project lasting over two years. Alla Reznik, meanwhile, a Lakehead physics professor and scientist at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Research Institute, will receive nearly $740,000 to explore a new way to diagnose prostate cancer in men.“The goal of this research is to improve prostate cancer diagnosis by accurately establishing where in the broad spectrum of this disease a particular tumour lies, and to identify its true aggressiveness,” said Reznik.
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