Clinical Research Units
Clinical Research Unit PRODIGY
Unit Presentation
PRODIGY is short for Prevention of Cardiovascular Risk, Obesity and Diabetes: Investigating Genes to Society in Youth.
PRODIGY is interested in all aspects, from biological to psychosocial, of youth cardiovascular risk (dyslipidemia, obesity, tobacco dependence, hypertension and others). Its ultimate objective is to better understand the underlying mechanisms of these risk factors and their determinants in order to offer effective intervention strategies to communities, children, adolescents and their families, allowing them to achieve optimal health. Consequently, PRODIGY has called on a team of researchers from five universities with highly diversified interests and expertise: pediatrics, endocrinology, cardiology, genetics, nutrition, biochemistry, vascular imaging, health psychology, social sciences, kinesiology, dentistry, epidemiology, biostatistics and public health.
Granting organizations
Various PRODIGY projects are funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec (FRSQ), the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, and the Sainte-Justine UHC Foundation.
Students
MSc
- Jennifer Brunet
- Andrée L. Castonguay
- Jean-Philippe Chaput
- Geoffroy Denis
- Sima Gandhi
- Denise Jarrin
- Simon Racicot
PhD
- Arsham Alamian
- Arnaud Chiolero
- Patricia Da Rosa
- Melanie Henderson
- Khady Ka
- Manuela Mandu
- Sean Mark
- Katerina Maximova
- Andrea Van Hulst
Residents
Congratulations to our graduate(s)!
MSc
PhD
- Christina Bancej
- Mathieu Bélanger
Post-doctoral fellowship
Resident
Membership and collaboration
Co-Investigators
University of Montreal
- Mark Daniel
- Lise Gauvin
- Yan Kestens
- Anita Koushik
- Jennifer O’Loughlin
- Louise Séguin
Laval University
- Vicky Drapeau
- Paul Poirier
- Angelo Tremblay
McGill University
- Gilles Paradis
- Katherine Gray-Donald
- Catherine Sabiston
- Simon Tran
INRS
- Philippe Apparicio
- Belinda Farias-Nicolau
(Armand Frappier Institute)
Concordia University
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