The Canadian Association give awards yearly in the following categories
- CAN Young Investigator Award
- CAN Outreach and Advocacy Awards
- CAN-CIHR INMHA Brain Star Awards
- CAN Travel Awards
View the CAN awards page for details
The Canadian Association give awards yearly in the following categories
View the CAN awards page for details
2022/05/09
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 2021 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 […]
2022/04/11
The Canadian Association for Neuroscience is extremely proud to present Dr. Boris Bernhardt, Assistant Professor in Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University, with the 2022 CAN New Investigator Award. Dr. Boris Bernhardt is a Tier-2 Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroinformatics and leads the multimodal imaging and connectome analysis laboratory (http://mica-mni.github.io) at the McConnell Brain […]
2021/12/15
CAN is proud to support the development of the Montreal Neurological Institute Open Outreach Program Description of initiative The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s ‘Calls to Action’ #6-12 relate to removing barriers in education for Aboriginal youth and eliminating educational gaps between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians. With this application, we propose to create the ‘TOSI Open […]
2021/11/15
CAN is proud to support the “Who can become a scientist?” workshop Description of event Who can become a scientist? is a workshop for a high school age audience. The workshop is approximately 1.5 hours and is currently in a virtual format. The program is led by a team of dedicated undergraduate and graduate volunteers, […]
2021/06/29
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 2020 Brain Star Awards. View the full announcement here
2021/06/17
The Canadian Association for Neuroscience is very proud to announce that Dr. Aaron A. Phillips, Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary, and Dr. Tabrez J. Siddiqui, Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology at the University of Manitoba and a Principal Investigator at the Kleysen Institute for Advanced Medicine, will be awarded CAN […]
2020/11/24
Brain Canada Foundation and the Barbara Turnbull Foundation for Spinal Cord Research are pleased to announce the launch of the second annual Turnbull-Tator Award in Spinal Cord Injury and Concussion Research. This award aims to recognize an outstanding publication in the field of spinal cord and/or brain injury research (including concussion) in the last two […]
2020/11/18
The Japanese Neuroscience Society is now calling for nomination for the 2021 Joseph Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience. Application submission site opens on November 1st, 2020. Application deadline is on January 31st, 2021 Scope of the Award: Research in developmental neuroscience at the tissue and cellular levels. The scope of the Award is not limited to […]
2020/10/29
The Graham Boeckh Foundation is now accepting nominations for the 2021 Dr. Samarthji Lal Award. Dr. Lal was a distinguished psychiatric researcher, and this award is given each year to honour his legacy. The award recognizes a researcher working in a Canadian institution in the field of mental health who is making an outstanding contribution to […]