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 2024 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 and disciplines covered by CIHR’s Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction in the 2024 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 2024
Top 3 winners of 2024
Sergio Crespo-Garcia
Marlene Reimer Brain Star of the year winner
Discovery of a new therapeutic avenue to protect vision in diabetic patients.
Christina You Chien Chou
An optomapping approach to better understand connections in the visual cortex of the brain
Ghazaleh Eskandari-Sedighi
Identification of CD33m as a new protective factor in Alzheimer’s Disease development.
Jessie Muir and Eshaan Sriram Iyer
Discovery of differences in encoding threat discrimination in the brain of males and females
Andrea Luppi
Understanding how the brain’s network architecture shapes its capacity to transition between different states
