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Brain Canada's 2020 Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research Brain Canada awards 20 grants to up-and-coming researchers to fund game-changing ideas and push innovation forward For a second year in a row, Brain Canada is joining forces with private foundations to award $100,000 each to 20...

The 2019 Azrieli Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research  Twenty neuroscientists in Canada have been awarded $100,000 each in research funding, as part of Brain Canada’s Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research Program. Anchored by a $5M gift from the Azrieli Foundation, this novel funding model...

Brain Canada is pleased to announce the awarding of a $4,275,000 2019 Platform Support Grant (PSG) to Dr. Yves De Koninck and team members from across the county for the Canadian Optogenetics and Vectorology Foundry, a consortium of research sites that aims to accelerate the development and...

Brain Canada is pleased to announce the awarding of a $3,326,912 2019 Platform Support Grant (PSG) to Dr. Sheena Josselyn and team at the Hospital for Sick Children for the SLAP-CAN In Vivo Imaging Facility. This funding will go towards building a platform that will use emerging imaging...

Early-career ALS researchers receive critical funding through ALS Society of Canada and Brain Canada partnership, with support from Fondation Vincent Bourque. The ALS Society of Canada (ALS Canada) and Brain Canada are powering innovative discoveries and treatments for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...

Brain Canada is pleased to announce the awarding of a 2021 Platform Support Grant (PSG) to Dr. Trevor Pugh from the University Health Network, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. Together with the Princess Margaret Cancer Center, Brain Canada is awarding $5.15M to support the Brain Single Cell...

In 2015, Nathalie B. Morin had a bike accident while training for a triathlon, resulting in a severe traumatic brain injury. Uncover her story. Meet real Canadians living with brain injury We spoke to real Canadians living with brain injuries so we could tell their stories. Driven by our commitment...

Prateek and Swati Mohanty pictured here with their two daughters. Caregivers are individuals who provide support to family members or loved ones who are ill, disabled, or elderly—and it’s almost always unpaid. They’re often the unsung heroes of our health care system, providing an invaluable...

One of the largest predictors of mental illness is childhood emotional and behavioural problems (EBP, e.g., aggression, anxiety, depression), which occur in 12-26% of children under age 6 years. Project Overview One of the largest predictors of mental illness is childhood emotional and behavioural...