��ɫ��Ƶ News - Research and innovation

��ɫ��Ƶ’s President honours outstanding early-career researchers

webfull — Thu, 29 May 2025 15:48:45 +0000

Professors Guojun Chen, Mahsa Dadar and Phoebe Friesen – all members of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences – win President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers

Three ��ɫ��Ƶ scholars were recognized with the 2025 President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers at the Health Sciences Convocation Ceremony on May 27. The award honours exceptional early-career researchers whose work is expanding the frontiers of knowledge in their fields.

Published: 29 May 2025

$268,000 awarded to support outreach activities by ��ɫ��Ƶ researchers

webfull — Tue, 27 May 2025 16:40:59 +0000

Seven ��ɫ��Ƶ researchers have been awarded more than $268,000 in Connection Grants by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

Published: 27 May 2025

Professor Emeritus Prakash Panangaden elected as Fellow of the Royal Society

webfull — Tue, 20 May 2025 16:59:15 +0000

Published: 20 May 2025

HBHL Symposium 2025: a week later, the energy still shines!

webfull — Fri, 16 May 2025 23:53:31 +0000

Over 300 attendees gathered at ��ɫ��Ƶ on May 6 and 7 for the HBHL Symposium 2025, a vibrant two-day celebration of cutting-edge neuroscience and brain health research.

This year’s event featured inspiring keynote talks by Damien Fair (University of Minnesota), Lucina Q. Uddin (UCLA) and Amélie Quesnel-Vallée (��ɫ��Ƶ), who explored topics from neuropsychiatry and brain network dynamics to social determinants of brain health.

Published: 16 May 2025

��ɫ��Ƶ receives a $12.3M research investment from the Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ)

webfull — Wed, 14 May 2025 20:00:33 +0000

The Government of Quebec and the Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ) have announced a significant $265.3M investment in scholarships and grants for the 2025-2026 funding year, supporting research across key FRQ sectors: Nature and Technologies, Health, Society and Culture, and Interdisciplinary Research.

Published: 14 May 2025

Provost honours 31 ��ɫ��Ƶ professors for exceptional research achievements

webfull — Thu, 01 May 2025 16:23:55 +0000

��ɫ��Ƶ announces 2025 cohort of Distinguished James ��ɫ��Ƶ Professors, James ��ɫ��Ƶ Professors and William Dawson Scholars

Provost and Vice-President (Academic) Christopher Manfredi has named 31 ��ɫ��Ƶ professors as Distinguished James ��ɫ��Ƶ Professors, James ��ɫ��Ƶ Professors or William Dawson Scholars. The internal awards recognize exceptional research achievements.

Published: 1 May 2025

SEX CELLS! On the importance of sex and gender in brain health

webfull — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 17:26:42 +0000

Last week, we welcomed neuroscientists Liisa Galea (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) and Robert-Paul Juster (Université de Montréal) for SEX CELLS!, a vital conversation on implementing Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis Plus (SGBA+) in health research.

Published: 14 April 2025

Panagiotis Prinos appointed as Director of Réseau DePTAQ

webfull — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 18:41:58 +0000

��ɫ��Ƶ, the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM) and Université de Sherbrooke, partners in the RNA Network for Therapy Development & Production (Réseau DePTAQ), are pleased to announce the appointment of Panagiotis (Takis) Prinos, PhD, as Director of Réseau DePTAQ.

Published: 11 April 2025

HBHL gets solid representation at 2025 Bravo Gala

webfull — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 13:55:42 +0000

The 2025 Bravo Gala was a celebration of ��ɫ��Ƶ's research community, and HBHL is proud to have been so well represented.

Congratulations to the following HBHL-supported researchers for these outstanding awards:

Published: 8 April 2025

March Neurogenesis talks explore brain mechanisms in food choice and computational modelling

webfull — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 19:43:01 +0000

Last week, HBHL hosted the third talk of the 2024-2025 Neurogenesis Speaker Series at the Neuro, featuring Dana Small and Yashar Zeighami.

Dana Small’s presentation, "The Interoceptive Origins of Reward," explored how biological signals are integrated to determine food choice, while Yashar Zeighami’s talk, "Fine-Tuning Neuroimaging Analysis to Reveal Hidden Insights," highlighted his research into the development of multi-scale computational models of brain anatomy.

Published: 1 April 2025