Science Advisory Council
Provides key input to Brain Canada in the form of intelligence about developments in the field, in Canada and internationally, and a broad assessment of Brain Canada’s research program.
The Science Advisory Council is comprised of 21 renowned Canadian and international scientists who represent a broad range of brain science fields and who provide timely insights into developments in the field well as a means to effectively assess our research program.
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 TorontoArea 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 UniversityArea of expertise:
Disorders of the Nervous System
- Lesley K. Fellows, M.D., DPhil
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological InstituteArea of expertise:
Neurologist
- Kurt Haas, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, University of British ColumbiaArea 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 LethbridgeArea 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 NeuroscienceArea 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