Research Grants

2006-2011 Canada Foundation for Innovation Infrastructure Operating Fund
2007 Endowment Fund for the Future Support for the Advancement of Scholarship, Afferent origin of interlimb reflexes
2008 Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada Discovery Grant, Tetanic electrical stimulation of human muscle
2008 VP Research Grant, Muscle stimulation and the excitability of the human brain
2008-2011 Spinal Cord Injury Treatment Centre (Northern Alberta) Society Craig Simpson Quality of Life Research Grant,Neuromuscular electrical stimulation for rehabilitation of muscle paralyzed by spinal cord injury
2009-2014 Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada Discovery Grant, Control properties of single motor units
2002-2007 Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Scholar, Utilising intrinsic spinal cord mechanisms for the electrical stimulation of human muscle
2002-2004 Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Establishment Grant, Utilising intrinsic spinal cord mechanisms for the electrical stimulation of human muscle
2002-2004 University start-up grant for new faculty. VP Academic start-up Collins
2003-2007 Canadian Institute for Health Research Operating Grant, Activating central mechanisms for functional electrical stimulation of human muscle
2003-2008 Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada Discovery Grant, Investigating the central contribution to contractions evoked during electrical stimulation of human muscle
2003 Endowment Fund for the Future Support for the Advancement of Scholarship, Reflex pathways from muscle receptors connect all four limbs in humans
2004 Canada Foundation for Innovation New Opportunities Grant (Infrastructure), Neurophysiology Laboratory to study and restore human limb movement
2004 Endowment Fund for the Future Support for the Advancement of Scholarship, Using transcranial direct current stimulation of the motor cortex to assess the cortical contribution to reflexes in human limb muscles
2005 Alberta Science and Research Investments Program (Infrastructure), Neurophysiology Laboratory to study and restore human limb movement
2006 Endowment Fund for the Future Support for the Advancement of Scholarship, Potientiated muscle contractions: A pre- or postsynaptic mechanism?