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 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 2022 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 2022
Shannon Tansley
Discovery of a new mechanism to explain the development of neuropathic pain
Marlene Reimer Brain Star of the Year winner
Lauren T Seabrook
Lindsay Naef
Mechanistic insights on how mice fed a high-fat diet have altered decision making could help define new therapeutical targets.
Co-winners, in the top 3 publications
Annemarie Dedek
Identification of sex-specific differences in pain signaling could lead to better treatment
Benjamin Corrigan
Distinct neural codes underlie long- and short-term memory in different regions of the primate brain.
Marissa Athena Lithopoulos
Precious preemies: Research on the effects of oxygen therapy reveals mechanisms of brain injury and informs neonatal care practices
Candice Lee
Live brain imaging techniques reveal how the primary motor cortex responds to reward to optimize learning.
