News & Updates

As a valued member of our Board, Eddie brought extraordinary insight, wisdom, and leadership to our organization. Throughout a distinguished career in public service, law, public policy, and governance, he earned widespread respect for his intellect, sound judgment, and unwavering commitment to Canada.

The Canadian Neurodevelopmental Research Training Platform (CanNRT) and Brain Canada Foundation are pleased to announce a new partnership that will strengthen the CanNRT Fellowship, CanNRT’s flagship program for graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and clinical fellows in neurodevelopmental research.

New Funding Opportunities for Postdoctoral Fellows, Early-Career Investigators, and Clinician-Scientists in Alzheimer’s and Dementia Research

The Amazing Brain Science Talks program invites researchers to share exciting, innovative brain health findings with a public audience. Selected speakers will deliver a 15-minute TED-style talk at a prominent Ottawa venue.

For advocates like Kris and for many Canadians living with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and their families, research represents hope: for more time, better quality of life, and one day, a cure. This ALS Awareness Month, we’re reflecting on Brain Canada’s ALS research funding journey and the discoveries, talent, and momentum it has helped create over the past decade.

A stroke occurs in Canada every seven minutes, and the survivors who develop aphasia often describe it as one of the most devastating losses imaginable. The ideas are still there. The person is still entirely present. But the words slip and stall, arriving wrong or not at all.

Heart & Stroke, in partnership with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (CIHR-ICRH) and Brain Canada, is excited to announce the recipients of the Cardiac Arrest Research Team Grants - an investment in groundbreaking research to address the most urgent challenges in cardiac arrest prediction, care, and recovery.

The 2026 Undergraduate Student Fellowships is a program designed to attract the brightest young scientists into the field of Huntington disease research and to facilitate meaningful research to clarify the biological mechanisms underlying Huntington disease pathology.

By funding researchers at different stages of their careers, the Alzheimer's Society Research Program helps support new ideas and advance promising areas of dementia research. 

Ontario is reinforcing its leadership as a centre of excellence in brain research, with four new Brain Canada–supported platforms that will accelerate discoveries and improve care for people living with neurological disease, mental illness, and childhood brain conditions.

Montréal, QC — June 1, 2026 — Montréal is strengthening its position as a major brain research hub with four new Brain Canada–supported platforms advancing treatment discovery across a wide range of neurological disorders.

$1 million Brain Canada–supported initiative makes next‑generation microscopes accessible to researchers across Quebec and Canada