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2024 Dr. Hubert van Tol Travel Fellowship Vincent Bazinet, a Doctoral student at McGill University, aims to develop standardized workflows for high-resolution 7T MRI to provide clearer and more detailed insights into brain structure and function. Project Overview Vincent Bazinet, a Doctoral...

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 is proud to announce the 2025 Rising Star...

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. Through its flagship Rising Stars Trainee Awards program,...

(From left to right) Philippe Albouy, Lindsay Bodell, Elie Bou Assi, Vincent Breton-Provencher, Lindsay Cahill, Carlos Camara-Lemarroy, Annie Ciernia, Michèle Desjardins, Catherine Duclos, Emma Duerden, Alexandre Fisette, Federico Gaiti, Rishi Ganesan, Jiami Guo, Karl Klein, Julien Muffat, Aislin...

When Dr. Thomas Durcan, director of The Neuro’s Early Drug Discovery Unit (EDDU), found out his team had been awarded a 2022 Discovery Grant, “It was a very happy day for us all.” Could this new 3D cell culture model help researchers better predict disease progression in ALS? Award:...

Brain Canada is pleased to announce the awarding of a $4,674,000 2019 Platform Support Grant (PSG) to Dr. Julien Doyon and his team for the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (BIC) at the Montreal Neurological Institute (The Neuro). This funding will support a world-renowned multidisciplinary platform...

Brain Canada Foundation in partnership with the Alzheimer Society of Canada, Canadian Institutes of Health Research – Institute of Aging, and Research Manitoba are investing $5,989,000 in 44 dementia researchers as part of Alzheimer Society of Canada’s annual research competition. The Alzheimer...

Dr. Guy Rouleau, The Neuro’s Director and principal investigator of the Neuro’s Virtual Integrated Patient Platform (NeuroVIPs). Goal is to accelerate research and let patients know how their data is helping find treatments.  A $6M grant from Brain Canada will fund the creation of a new Open...

Medical imaging has changed how we study and treat brain degeneration. Project Overview Medical imaging has changed how we study and treat brain degeneration. The best tool for imaging subtle changes to brain proteins is positron emission tomography (or PET). But that has limited availability. An...