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Brain Canada is committed to supporting a more inclusive way of designing and conducting research. Research approaches that consistently account for differences drive innovation and scientific rigour and reduce gender-based and ethnicity-based health inequities for previously silenced voices.

The Alliance held its inaugural meeting in Toronto today with representatives from the brain health and dementia research community and leaders from CIHR, Alzheimer Society of Canada, Brain Canada, Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation, Healthcare Excellence Canada, and the Public Health Agency of Canada.

We make memories and retrieve memories all the time, but there’s a lot we don’t understand about how the brain performs these essential functions.

After becoming a neurologist in Germany, Dr. Zrenner moved to Canada, where he was awarded a Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research grant through Brain Canada’s flagship program, which provides funding to early-career researchers. This grant supports his innovative research that combines two distinct non-invasive methods for treating neurological and psychiatric disorders such as depression and OCD.

Meet the junior researchers behind the 2022 ALS Canada – Brain Canada Trainee Awards. Dr. Hussein Ghazale is the recipient of a $165,000 ALS Canada – Brain Canada 2022 Trainee Award.