Donald Collins, University of Toronto

Research

Alzheimer Disease Dementia Diagnosis Prevention Quality Of Life Sex Treatment

Latest funding

Phase Two of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging
CIHR · 2019 · Principal investigator
$31,625,000
Assessing the Relationship of White Matter Hyperintensities to Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease
CIHR · 2013 · Co-investigator
$100,000

Phase Two of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging

Principal investigatorCIHR2019Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging

Principal investigators: Chertkow, Howard M; Anderson, Nicole D; Andrew, Melissa K; Bartha, Robert; Bellec, Pierre; Belleville, Sylvie N; Bergman, Howard; Bherer, Louis; Black, Sandra E; Borrie, Michael J; Camicioli, J. Richard M; Carrier, Julie; Cashman, Neil R; Collins, Donald L; Cuello, A. Claudio G; Dixon, Roger A; Ducharme, Simon; Duchesne, Simon; Einstein, Gillian; Eintracht, Shaun; Evans, Alan C; Fahnestock, Margaret; Feldman, Howard; Ferland, Guylaine; Fisk, John D; Gan-Or, Ziv; Giguère, Anik; Herrmann, Nathan; Hsiung, Ging-Yuek R; Lanctôt, Krista L; Lim, Andrew S; Mackenzie, Ian R; Masellis, Mario; Maxwell, Colleen J; McGilton, Katherine S; Mclaurin, Joanne; Montero Odasso, Manuel M; Morgan, Debra G; Naglie, Gary; Nygaard, Haakon B; O'Connell, Megan E; Phillips, Natalie A; Poirier, Judes; Rapoport, Mark J; Robillard, Julie; Rockwood, Kenneth; Rogaeva, Ekaterina; Rosa-Neto, Pedro; Rylett, Jane R; Seitz, Dallas P; Siminovitch, Katherine A; Smith, Eric E; ST GEORGE-HYSLOP, Peter H; Vedel, Isabelle; Walker, Jennifer; Wittich, Walter

Keywords: Alzheimer Disease; Dementia; Diagnosis; Prevention; Quality Of Life; Sex; Treatment

$31,625,000

Assessing the Relationship of White Matter Hyperintensities to Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease

Co-investigatorCIHR2013Catalyst Grant: Secondary Analysis of Neuroimaging Databases

Principal investigators: Tartaglia, Maria Carmela

Keywords: Adni; Alzheimer'S Disease; Imaging; Vascular Disease

$100,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Alzheimer Disease Dear Professor Collins, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on alzheimer disease connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "Phase Two of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging" (2019), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]