Science Advisory Council

Chair

• Sheena Josselyn, Ph.D.
  Senior Scientist, Neurosciences & Mental Health Program, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute;
  Canada Research Chair in Molecular and Cellular Cognition;
  Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto

  Area of expertise:

  Cognition and Behaviour

Canadian Members

• Jacques Drouin, D. Sc., MRSC
  Director, Molecular Genetics research unit, IRCM;
  Full Researcher Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Université de Montréal;
  Adjunct Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology and Department of Biochemistry, McGill University ;

  Area of expertise:

  Integrative Systems: Neuroendocrinology, Neuroimmunology and Homeostatic Challenge

• Alan C. Evans, Ph.D.
  Professor, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Biomedical Engineering, Medical Physics, McGill University

  Area of expertise:

  Disorders of the Nervous System

• Lesley K. Fellows, M.D., DPhil
  Associate Professor, Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute

  Area of expertise:

  Neurologist

• Kurt Haas, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, University of British Columbia

  Area of expertise:

  Model organisms and systems

• James L. Kennedy, MSc, M.D., FRCP(C), FRSC
  Director of the Neuroscience Research Department and Head of the Psychiatric Neurogenetics Section, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)

  Area of expertise:

  Genetics

• Bryan E. Kolb, Ph.D.
  Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge

  Area of expertise:

  Cognition and behaviour

• Doug P. Munoz, Ph.D.
  Professor of Physiology, Psychology and Medicine, Queen’s University; Director, Queen’s Centre for Neuroscience Studies; Canada Research Chair in Neuroscience

  Area of expertise:

  Sensory and Motor Systems

• Rachel F. Tyndale, Ph.D.
  Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Toronto;
  Endowed Chair in Addictions, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto;
  Head Pharmacogenetics, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)

  Area of expertise:

  Addiction

International Members

• Karl Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D
  D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (CA, USA)

  Area of expertise:

  Psychiatry/Behavior/Leader in optogenetics

• Arnold Kriegstein, M.D., Ph.D.
  Director, Eli and Edy, the Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, Department of Neurology, UCSF School of Medicine (CA, USA)

  Area of expertise:

  Development/photonics, Neural Stem Cells and Embryonic Cortical Development

• Lorne Mendell, Ph.D.
  Distinguished Professor, Stony Brook University (NY, USA)

  Area of expertise:

  Pain, neuroplasticity of the mammalian spinal cord

• Klaus-Armin Nave, Ph.D.
  Head Max-Planck Gottingen, Glial biology and neurodegeneration, Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, Göttingen (GER)

  Area of expertise:

  Glial biology and neurodegeneration

• Bill Newsome, Ph.D.
  Arman Family Provostial Professor and Professor of Neurobiology and, by courtesy, of Psychology, Stanford School of Medicine (CA, USA)

  Area of expertise: 

  Visual perception and visually-based cognition, neural mechanisms of decision making  

• Angela Roberts, Ph.D.
  Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge (UK)

  Area of expertise:

  Prefrontal cortex/behavior/ psychiatric diseases

• Bruce Rosen, M.D., Ph.D.
  Professor of Radiology at the Harvard Medical School;
  Professor of Health Science and Technology at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology;
  Director of the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital (MA, USA)

  Area of expertise:

  World leading expert in functional neuroimaging

• Rosalind Segal, M.D., Ph.D.
  Professor of Neurobiology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard (MA, USA)

  Area of expertise:

  Cellular and molecular neuroscience/oncology

• D James Surmeier, Ph.D.
  Chair, Department of Physiology, Nathan Smith Davis, Professor of Physiology, Northwestern (IL, USA)

  Area of expertise:

  Basal ganglia/cell metabolics and neurodegenerative disease; Molecular Biology; Movement Disorders; Neuroscience; Parkinson’s disease; Physiology; Schizophrenia

• Li-Huei Tsai, Ph.D.
  Director, The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory;
  Picower Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences;
  Senior Associate Member, Broad Institute Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA, USA)

  Area of expertise:

  Neurodegeneration