Brain Canada investment expands access to Western's national MRI research platform
A $1.4 million Brain Canada investment, matched by Western, will open Western’s Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping to more researchers as it marks 30 years.
Brain Canada has made a $1.4 million investment in Western’s Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping (CFMM), with matching funds from Western. The money supports the technical staff behind CFMM’s ultra-high field MRI systems and strengthens its role as a national research platform.
Ravi Menon, founding director of CFMM and a Schulich professor, says the staff develop new solutions for hard neuroimaging projects. CFMM houses 3T and 7T MRI systems for human research and 9.4T and 15.2T systems for studying animal models of disease.
The grant will create more opportunities for researchers at other institutions to use the equipment and collaborate with the centre. It also advances CFMM’s commitment to open science by making its brain imaging data sets available to the wider research community.
The announcement comes as CFMM marks its 30th anniversary.
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