BrightFocus Travel Awards – New partnership for 2023
BrightFocus funds ground-breaking research in an urgent effort to discover cures for Alzheimer’s disease, macular degeneration and glaucoma, and provides expert information about these diseases. CAN is pleased to announce a new partnership with BrightFocus to support trainee participation in the CAN meeting for travel fellowships, including diversity fellowships.
All areas of neuroscience research were welcome and all trainees invited to apply, but priority was given to researchers working in the BrightFocus target areas of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, macular degeneration and glaucoma, and to members of under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, ethnic minorities, people from a low socio-economic background, members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community, first generation PhD or MD for your family, and people attending smaller universities (non U15 universities in Canada).
Bright Focus Diversity Awards
| Name | Supervisor name | Affiliation | Province |
| Abrar, Fatima | Dale Martin | University of Waterloo | ON |
| Akbarian, Niki | Linda Mah | University of Toronto, Rotman Research Institute | ON |
| Ash, Alyssa | Jason Snyder | University of British Columbia, DM Centre for Brain Health | BC |
| Bandeira Binder, Luisa | Caroline Menard | Université Laval, CERVO Brain Research | QC |
| Barron, Jessica | Matthew Parsons | Memorial University of Newfoundland | NL |
| Davies, Don | Steven Connor | York University | ON |
| Eswaran, Akhila | Anna Phan | University of Alberta | AB |
| Garden, Jessicca | Richard Brown, Ian Weaver | Dalhousie University | NS |
| Kane, Erica | Shawn Whitehead | University of Western Ontario | ON |
| Karimi Abadchi, Javad | Majid H Mohajerani | University of Lethbridge | AB |
| Kropf, Erika | Margaret Fahnestock | McMaster University | ON |
| McCabe, Lauren | Aristotle Voineskos | Centre for Addiction and Mental Health | ON |
| Minary, Alexa | Fuat Balci | University of Manitoba | MN |
| Petropavlovskiy, Andrey | Shaun S. Sanders | University of Guelph | ON |
| Pietraszkiewicz, Paula | Julie Lefebvre | University of Toronto | ON |
| Power, Saige | Evelyn Lambe | University of Toronto | ON |
| Robinson, Danika | Robert McDonald | Lethbridge University | AB |
| Rusu, Bianca | Brian Kalish | University of Toronto | ON |
| Sepahvand, Tayebeh | Qi Yuan | Memorial University of Newfoundland | NL |
| Sharma, Sorabh | Craig Brown | University of Victoria | AB |
| Teasell, Elizabeth | Arthur Brown | Western University, Robarts Research Institute | ON |
Bright Focus Travel Awards
| Name | Supervisor name | Affiliation | Province |
| McKeever, Paul | Janice Robertson | University of Toronto | ON |
| Mishra, Pranav | Benedict C. Albensi | University of Manitoba | MN |
