Category: CAN news
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2024 Elections – Call for nominations
CAN will be holding elections for the following Board of Direction positions: Vice-President (President elect) 2 board members We are now sending a call for nominations for these positions. Please note that only members in good standing can submit nominations.
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With autism, the brain adapts to blood vessel problems by changing how it uses energy
Dr. Baptiste Lacoste wants to find out what’s going wrong with the blood vessels in the autistic brain. His team was the first to discover that these blood vessels don’t work properly in mouse models of autism, and there’s some cellular evidence that this happens in humans as well. Now, in a new study published in Cell Reports, the team…
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Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 CAN- CIHR-INMHA Brain Star Awards!
The Canadian Association for Neuroscience (CAN) and the Canadian Institutes of Health’s Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction (CIHR-INMHA) are proud to announce the winners of the 2022 Brain Star Awards. The CIHR-INMHA Brain Star awards, administered by the Canadian Association for Neuroscience, are awarded to students and trainees who have published high impact discoveries in all fields…
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Drs. Arkady Khoutorsky and Bratislav Misic win 2023 CAN New Investigator Awards
The Canadian Association for Neuroscience is very proud to present Dr. Arkady Khoutorsky, Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesia and Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences at McGill University, and Dr. Bratislav Misic, leader of the Network Neuroscience Lab at the Montreal Neurological Institute 2023 CAN New Investigator awards. Dr. Arkady Khoutorsky…
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Boris Bernhardt wins the 2022 New Investigator Award from the Canadian Association for Neuroscience
The Canadian Association for Neuroscience is extremely proud to present Dr. Boris Bernhardt, Assistant Professor in Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University, with the 2022 CAN New Investigator Award. Dr. Boris Bernhardt is a Tier-2 Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroinformatics and leads the multimodal imaging and connectome analysis laboratory (http://mica-mni.github.io) at the McConnell Brain…
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Aaron A Phillips and Tabrez J Siddiqui win 2021 CAN Young Investigator Awards
The Canadian Association for Neuroscience is very proud to announce that Dr. Aaron A. Phillips, Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary, and Dr. Tabrez J. Siddiqui, Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology at the University of Manitoba and a Principal Investigator at the Kleysen Institute for Advanced Medicine, will be awarded CAN…
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Congratulations to Mihaela Iordanova, winner of the CAN Young Investigator Award
We are very proud to announce that Mihaela Iordanova, from Concordia University, has been named CAN’s 2020 Young Investigator Award winner! Learn more about this exceptional neuroscientist on Mihaela Iordanova’s Young Investigator Award winner profile page.
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Science should be an election issue – read our Op-Ed in Le Devoir
Read an Op-Ed signed by the Presidents of CAN, Katalin Toth, and of the Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences, Tarik Moroy, this morning in Le Devoir. Scientific research is important for all Canadians – it is how Canada can face the issues and challenges we face today. Political leaders should commit to supporting science today. Read…
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The Liberal Party answers CAN’s questions about science support
We have received a response from the Liberal Party of Canada to our five questions about science support. Is your Party committed to fully implementing the report of the Fundamental Science Review (Naylor report) with additional financial investment into open competitions to maintain Canada as a forefront leader in research innovation and research discoveries? Our…
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Congratulations to Charles Bourque, named fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
Congratulations to CAN Vice-President Charles Bourque on his recent induction as fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Induction into the CAHS as a Fellow is considered one of the highest honours within Canada’s academic community.