Excerpt from: PR Newswire (click for full article)
New research to help children suffering from brain injuries such as severe head trauma, concussion and stroke is now underway at the University of Calgary-Alberta Health Services' Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute for Child and Maternal Health (ACHRI), thanks to a generous $1.6 million donation from the Ronald and Irene Ward Foundation.
"Our vision is to find better ways to prevent, treat and even reverse the devastating impact of brain-related illness and injury," said Dr. Brent Scott , Director of ACHRI and Husky Energy Chair in Child and Maternal Health. "We're grateful to the Ward Foundation for its leadership in helping us achieve those goals."
"Support from the Ward Foundation is helping us attract more brain health scientists to Calgary," said Dr. Winne Meeuwisse , physician, researcher at the Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI) and a leader of the campus-wide Brain Injury Initiative at the University of Calgary. "This investment is facilitating collaboration at new levels. It is helping us bring together experts who are passionate about not just treating brain injury and illness, but also understanding what happens inside the diseased or traumatized brain, why it reacts as it does and how we can develop new therapies."
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