Brain Canada is proud to announce the 2025 Rising Star Trainee Award recipients, a new cohort of trainees (master’s students, PhD students and postdoctoral fellows) whose work is advancing our understanding of brain health across Canada.
Brain Canada and The ALS Society of Canada (ALS Canada) are proud to announce the recipients of the 2025 ALS Canada–Brain Canada Clinical Research Fellowship and Trainee Awards.
In 2016, Yasser Iturria-Medina, Ph.D., and his post-doctoral supervisor at the time, Alan Evans, Ph.D., published findings that quietly helped shift how scientists think about Alzheimer’s disease. Today, that work has informed several therapeutic patents and opened the door to a distinct class of drug targets currently being tested on patients around the world.
Brain Canada and CIHR Institute of Aging Fund International Initiative
In partnership with the CIHR Institute of Aging, Brain Canada is pleased to announce the funding decisions for the 2025 Joint Programme Neurodegenerative Disease call, Health and Social Care Research with a Focus on the Moderate and Late Stages of Neurodegenerative Diseases.
In partnership with the CIHR Institute of Aging, Brain Canada is pleased to announce the funding decisions for the 2025 Joint Programme Neurodegenerative Disease call, Health and Social Care Research with a Focus on the Moderate and Late Stages of Neurodegenerative Diseases.
Screens are changing young brains. Canada needs a plan
Dr. Emma Duerden is an associate professor and Canada Research Chair in neuroscience and learning disorders – applied psychology at Western University. Dr. Franco Vaccarino is professor emeritus at the University of Guelph and former president and vice chancellor. Alison Palmer is the evaluation and special projects lead at Brain Canada Foundation.
Brain Canada is pleased to announce that, in partnership with the Cancer Research Society (CRS), will fund four outstanding research projects focused on brain cancer As part of the of 2025 Doctoral Research Awards and 2025 Operating Grants.
This November 25, Brain Canada is launching it’s first ever Grey Matters Tuesday campaign to make your gift go twice as far for brain research. Thanks to a generous donor who wishes to remain anonymous, every donation made during the campaign will be matched, up to $10,000.
As part of our mission to fund bold brain research, Brain Canada has, together with its donors and partners, supported dozens of large-scale research projects and platforms to develop and apply cutting-edge AI approaches to advance our understanding of the brain and identify solutions for brain diseases and disorders.
After meeting with Parliamentarians in Ottawa, Brain Canada published a pan-Canadian consultation report highlighting a series of immediate AI and neuroscience research investment opportunities. The report reflects feedback received from eight AI brain research roundtables hosted by Brain Canada across the country with over 75 Canadian experts in these fields.
