The Canadian Association for Neuroscience is very proud to announce Dr. Maria Ioannou, from the University of Alberta, has been awarded the CAN 2026 New Investigator Award for her innovative work that has revealed new mechanisms by which neurons expel, transfer, and detoxify peroxidized lipids, and how glia act as indispensable metabolic buffers that preserve neuronal viability. She is an outstanding early-career neuroscientist whose interdisciplinary research program has already yielded breakthrough mechanistic discoveries and opened new fields of inquiry. Dr. Ioannou demonstrates clear scientific leadership within the neuroscience community.
Maria Ioannou wins the 2026 CAN New Investigator Award for groundbreaking research on lipid metabolism in the brain
