Canadian Pediatric Imaging Platform

A structured partnership to accelerate our understanding of the brain and the factors that disrupt brain development.

Major funding from the Federal Government for the collaborative development of the Canadian Pediatric Imaging Platform (C-PIP) has been awarded to a Canadian research group based across three pediatric hospitals, whose leadership at the CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre is psychologist and professor Dr. Patricia Conrod.

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A structured partnership to accelerate our understanding of the brain and the factors that disrupt brain development

The brain undergoes enormous changes, from conception to birth, and throughout life. How it develops is deeply influenced by genetic and environmental factors. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a powerful technology to measure these changes in brain development. The information collected can be particularly useful in helping to elucidate how the organ reacts, for example, during premature birth, concussion or genetic alteration.

The C-PIP platform aims to understand how brain disruptors impair neurodevelopment and increase the risk of behavioral and mental health disorders in children and young people. Thanks to its open scientific approach, the adoption of new methods of data collection, processing and analysis will be facilitated and will constitute a national reference sample.

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BACKGROUND

A structured partnership to accelerate our understanding of the brain and the factors that disrupt brain development

The brain undergoes enormous changes, from conception to birth, and throughout life. How it develops is deeply influenced by genetic and environmental factors. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a powerful technology to measure these changes in brain development. The information collected can be particularly useful in helping to elucidate how the organ reacts, for example, during premature birth, concussion or genetic alteration.

The C-PIP platform aims to understand how brain disruptors impair neurodevelopment and increase the risk of behavioral and mental health disorders in children and young people. Thanks to its open scientific approach, the adoption of new methods of data collection, processing and analysis will be facilitated and will constitute a national reference sample.

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STUDY DESIGN

C-PIP aims to accelerate the pace of discovery in a number of ways. It will make it easier to recruit children across the country for research studies, increasing the amount of data available on brain development following injury, exposure or genetic alterations and how these disruptions in turn put children and youth at greater risk of behaviour or mental health challenges. It will also foster the adoption of an Open Science approach by facilitating data sharing between researchers. C-PIP will also develop training modules, with the goal of accelerating the adoption of new methods for collecting, processing and analyzing data.

TEAM

Brain Canada is pleased to announce the awarding of a 2021 Platform Support Grant (PSG) to a team led by Dr. Signe Bray from the University of Calgary, including Dr. Catherine Lebel (UCalgary), Dr. Patricia Conrod (CHU Sainte-Justine) and Dr. Anne Wheeler (SickKids). The partnership behind this project is made up of three Canadian leaders in the field of pediatric MRI: the new Imagine Center at the CHU Sainte-Justine, the Alberta Children’s Hospital-CAIR program and the SickKids Hospital in Toronto. All are already at work to develop the C-PIP Platform.

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NEWS & EVENTS

The Canadian Pediatric Imaging Platform (C-PIP) receives $5.6M

Major funding for the collaborative development of the Canadian Pediatric Imaging Platform (C-PIP) has been awarded to a Canadian research group based across three pediatric hospitals, whose leadership at the CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre is psychologist and professor Dr. Patricia Conrod. The announcement was made today by the Government of Canada and Brain Canada and involves partnerships with Sickkids and Alberta Children's Hospitals
May 24, 2023
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Kick-off Meeting for New Collaboration Between Three Canadian Pediatric Hospitals: CHUSJ, Sickkids, and Alberta Children's

A new collaboration has been launched between researchers across three paediatric hospitals in Canada. Through a hybrid in-person and virtual meeting, more than twenty experts from clinical neuropsychology, neuroimaging and bioinformatics met over two days to design new tools to accelerate research on neurodevelopment and child brain health. 
April 27, 2023
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Dr. Patricia Conrod and Dr. Gregory Lodygensky awarded $7.1 million infrastructure grant for state-of-the-art multimodal pediatric neuroimaging facilities at CHU Ste Justine

Dr. Patricia Conrod and Dr. Gregory Lodygensky at CHU Sainte-Justine, has been awarded $7.1 million in funding as part of the 2020 competition of the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) Innovation Fund. This funding confirms the global leadership of CHU Sainte-Justine's researchers in the advancement of knowledge on neurodevelopmental disorders.
April 13, 2021
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