Equipment Grants 

Crucial cornerstones
DMRF equipment grants enable Dalhousie medical researchers to set up and equip their laboratories, then build and advance their research programs. The DMRF has awarded nearly $5 million in equipment grants over the past 28 years. Faculty members say this support has been pivotal to their research achievements.                          

Fostering top talent: Meet our most recent equipment grant recipients
DMRF awarded more than $114,000 in equipment grants to talented investigators and a multi-user imaging facility through its 2007-08 Equipment Grant Competition.

2008 equipment grant recipients:

• Dr. Gautam Awatramani, Anatomy & Neurobiology, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, $19,665 for retinal regeneration studies
• Dr. Christian Lehmann, Anesthesia, Pharmacology, Microbiology & Immunology, $31,632 for sepsis research
• Dr. Geoffrey Maksym, Biomedical Engineering, $30,000 for asthma research
• Dr. Nikhil Thomas, Microbiology & Immunology, Medicine, $12,709 for E.coli studies
• Stephen Whitefield, Anatomy & Neurobiology, $20,500 for the Cellular Microscopy and Digital Imaging Facility

2007 equipment grant recipients:

• Dr. James Fawcett, Pharmacology, $21,780
• Dr. Jan K. Rainey, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, $20,800
• Dr. Graham Dellaire, Pathology, $26,276
• Dr. Jun Wang, Pediatrics, Microbiology & Immunology, $24,681
• Dr. Christopher Richardson, Microbiology & Immunology, $20,000
• Dr. Craig McCormick, Microbiology & Immunology, $30,000

2006 equipment grant recipients

2005 equipment grant recipients