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 2021 Brain Star Awards.
The CIHR-INMHA Brain Star awards, administered for 2021 by the Canadian Association for Neuroscience, are awarded to students and trainees who have published high impact discoveries in all fields and disciplines covered by CIHR’s Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction in the 2021 calendar year.
The top 3 Brain Star Award winners of the year have been invited to make a presentation at the CAN meeting in May.
Brain Star Award winners of 2021
Archana Gengatharan
Stem cells activation in the brain is regulated by day and night – Marlene Reimer Brain Star of the Year winner
Xuming Yin
Understanding the basis for delayed motor learning in a mouse model of autism – top 3 winner
Jason da Silva Castanheira
Brain fingerprinting: a signature of complex brain signals unique to each individual
Jessica Megan Rosin
Microglia in the embryonic brain sense maternal stress and influence brain development
