Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  For me, as a Chinese Canadian, English is obviously not my native language. I spend probably two or three times more than my colleagues do writing applications. It takes a lot of time. If I want to write a single $120,000-per-year grant, it takes me probably at least three weeks

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  One grant is not enough, actually. We have to apply for multiple grants from different agencies. It takes a lot of time to write them and prepare them. Actually, you need a lot of the preliminary data, and we spend a lot of time preparing it.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  I can talk a little bit about the basic research side of that link. Just as my colleague mentioned, in my lab we have had repetitive mild head injuries in the animal model, and it has definitely showed that there is a link between mild head injury and memory deficit, which mean

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  I mentioned my wish list in my presentation, Dr. Duncan, and it would very much echo what Dr. Rémi Quirion just said. In Canada we have very excellent experts across the country, but we do have a cluster of experts in certain places. To be viewed as a centre of excellence would b

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Thanks. Honourable Chair, honourable members of the subcommittee on neurological disease, my name is Weihong Song. I am the Canada research chair in Alzheimer's disease, and a Jack Brown and Family professor at UBC. It's my great honour to meet with you today to discuss the dev