We are proud to announce the winners of the 2025 awardees!
We are grateful to IBRO and BrightFocus for their continued support for the participation of trainees from underrepresented groups.
We are proud to announce that CAN has doubled the amount of support we provide this year, compared to previous years.
BrightFocus Diversity Award winners
| First name | Last name | Supervisor | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charlotte | LaRochelle-Compton | Elena Choleris | University of Guelph |
| Natalia | Van Esch | Nichole Scheerer | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| Luisa | Bandeira Binder | Caroline Menard | Université Laval – CERVO Research Center |
| Margaux | Rivière | Ayman ElAli | Université Laval |
| Anna | Conceicao | Fernanda De Felice | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro |
| Catherine | Hume | Matthew Hill | University of Calgary |
| Mai | Ibrahim | Masahiro Nishio | Graduate School of Bioresources, Mie University, Japan |
| Olivia | O’Neill | Derya Sargin | University of Calgary |
| Maria Helene | Tomberg | Miriam A. Hickey | University of Tartu |
| Alina | Trofimova | Justin Botterill | University of Saskatchewan |
IBRO Travel Awards
| First name | Last name | Supervisor | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amelia | Doerksen | Shaun Sanders | University of Guelph |
| Danielle | Halasz | Giannina Descalzi | University of Guelph |
| Sunny | Qureshi | Paula Duarte Guterman | Brock University |
| Miray | Youssef | Steven Laviolette | Western university, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry |
| Cong Loc | Dang | Anne McKinney | McGill University |
| Ossama | Ghenissa | Ciaran Murphy-Royal | Université de Montréal, Centre de Recherche du CHUM (CRCHUM) |
| André | Moreira Pessoni | Benoit Labonté | Université Laval |
| Jiayue | Yang | Justine Cléry | McGill University, Montreal Neurological Institute |
| Ismail | Babale | Silvia Pagliardini | University of Alberta, Department of Physiology |
| Aurélien | Caron | Benjamin W. Lindsey | University of Manitoba |
| Santina | Duarte | Eric Chalmers | Mount Royal University |
| Amira | Fadl | Jackson Cone | University of Calgary |
| Shalini | Iyer | Mark Cembrowski | University of British Columbia |
| Mehr | Malhotra | Jiami Guo | University of Calgary, Hotchkiss Brain Institute |
| Serena | Malta | Ana Paula Mendes-Silva | University of Saskatchewan |
| Folashade | Ogunrinade | Olumayokun Olajide | University of Huddersfield,UK. |
| Axita | Shienh | Clayton Dickson | University of Alberta |
| Ho In | Shin | Lei Xing | University of Manitoba |
| Sneha | Singh | Ujendra Kumar | University of British Columbia |
| Haley | Vecchiarelli | Marie-Ève Tremblay | University of Victoria |
CAN Professional development awards
| First name | Last name | Supervisor | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shahnaza | Hamidullah | Timothy Bussey | University of Western Ontario |
| Kate | Harris | Matthew Holahan | Carleton University |
| Cadence | Opoka | Lisa Saksida | Western University, Robarts Research Institute |
| Julie | Ouellette | Baptiste Lacoste | Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, University of Ottawa |
| Raquel | Rodriguez Aller | Armen Saghatelyan | University of Ottawa |
| Anita | Sikic | Jennifer Murray | University of Guelph |
| Lauren | Stepien | Ayda Tekok-Kilic | Brock University, Centre for Neuroscience and Child and Youth Studies Department |
| Anne-Catherine | Chouinard | Marina Martinez | Université de Montréal |
| Daniel | Lamontagne-Kam | Jonathan Brouillette | Université de Montréal, Faculté de médecine |
| Maéline | Muller | Paul Dutchak | Université Laval, CERVO Brain research center |
| Melissa | Pestemalciyan | Timothy Kennedy | McGill University, Montreal Neurological Institute |
| Valérie | Pineau Noël | Caroline Menard and Daniel C. Côté | Laval University, CERVO brain research center |
| Marta | Turri | Karl Fernandes | University of Sherbrooke |
| Mehwish | Anwer | Cheryl Wellington | University of British Columbia |
| Jatin | Choudhary | Annie Ciernia | University of British Columbia, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health |
| Aiden | Glass | John Howland | University of Saskatchewan |
| Meghan | Greenland | Matthew Parsons | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| Mackenzie | Hartley | Tamara B. Franklin | Dalhousie University |
| Meagan | Hinks | Ashlyn Swift-Gallant | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| Seyed Mojtaba | Hosseini | Soheila Karimi-Abdolrezaee | University of Manitoba |
| Stanley | Ibeh | Barbara Karten | Dalhousie University |
| Yana | Kibalnyk | Anastassia Voronova | University of Alberta |
| Linda | Le | Richard Dyck | University of Calgary |
| Nicolas | Leclerc | Robert Beattie | University of Manitoba, Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics |
| Gelareh | Modara | Manu Madhav and Jason Snyder | University of British Columbia, Brain Research Centre |
| Govind | Peringod | Grant R Gordon | Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary |
| Aly Muhammad | Salim | Alex Lohman | University of Calgary |
| Wing Lam Jessie | Yu | Gerald Zamponi | The Hotchkiss Brain Institue, University of Calgary |
