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Peter Macdonald
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Latest papers
microRNA-133a as an indicator of disease progression and treatment response in X-linked myotubular myopathy
Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids · 2025
Latest funding
- $493,426
Let's Stop OA: Development and feasibility testing of an intervention to manage knee osteoarthritis risk factors after anterior cruciate ligament injury
CIHR · 2017 · Co-investigator
- $2,382,000
Centre for Cancer Stem Cell Therapeutics
CFI · 2015 · Co-investigator
- $175,000
NMR Lateral Diffusion Measurements in Biomembranes
NSERC · 2012 · Principal investigator
1 publications.
microRNA-133a as an indicator of disease progression and treatment response in X-linked myotubular myopathy
Nika Maani, Dakota Gustafson, Peter B. MacDonald, Emanuela Pannia, Crizza Ching, Nesrin S Sabha, Jason E. Fish, Matthew S. Alexander, James J. Dowling
Let's Stop OA: Development and feasibility testing of an intervention to manage knee osteoarthritis risk factors after anterior cruciate ligament injury
Principal investigators: Davis, Aileen M
Keywords: Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury; Intervention Prototype; Knee; Osteoarthritis; Prevention; Risk Factor Management
Centre for Cancer Stem Cell Therapeutics
Principal investigators: Gunning, Patrick
Keywords: cancer stem cells, high-throughput screening facility, novel therapeutics, small molecule inhibitors, protein-protein interactions LCMS, automated purifiers, microscopy suite, Isothermal calorimeter
NMR Lateral Diffusion Measurements in Biomembranes
Principal investigators: Macdonald, Peter
NMR and lateral diffusion in membranes
Principal investigators: Macdonald, Peter
500 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Principal investigators: MacDonald, Peter
A new differential scanning calorimeter
Principal investigators: Manners, Ian
Polyelectrolyte interactions with lipid bilayers
Principal investigators: MacDonald, Peter
Centre for Applied Biosciences and Biotechnology (CABB)
Principal investigators: Krull, Ulrich
Keywords: molecular biology, nmr, micro-arrays, DNA sequencing, risk analysis, analytical instrument development, data visualization, global positioning system, genetically modified organisms, pathogenic organisms
NMR studies of DNA transfection and polymer diffusion
Principal investigators: MacDonald, Peter
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Jason Fish and James Dowling: 1 shared paper
- Jason Fish and Peter MacDonald: 1 shared paper
- Jason Fish and Peter Macdonald: 1 shared paper
- James Dowling and Peter MacDonald: 1 shared paper
- James Dowling and Peter Macdonald: 1 shared paper
- Peter MacDonald and Peter Macdonald: 1 shared paper
- Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences
- Department of Molecular Genetics
- Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
- Department of Surgery
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