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HBI member, Vina Goghari’s research on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder has won her recognition from the Canadian government in the form of a prestigious Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) New Investigator Award.

Given to Canada’s brightest young researchers in the early stage of their careers, the New Investigator Award is a salary award providing select scholars with $60,000 a year for a five year period. The award protects 75 per cent of Goghari’s time for research.

HBI researcher, Naweed Syed, PhD and Orly Yadid-Pecht, PhD from the Schulich School of Engineering have achieved a major milestone in the further development of a neurochip-a microchip with the ability to monitor several functions of the brain. In previous studies, researchers developed a neurochip that could directly stimulate and record brain cell activity. Now, these two researchers have successfully developed a novel lab-on-a-chip technology that, through an ultra-sensitive component built directly on the microchip, also enables direct imaging of activity in brain cells. 

If you’ve ever had a car accident or severe fall, there’s a chance you’ve suffered some degree of brain trauma. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurs when the head receives an impact forceful enough to injure the brain. It’s the leading cause of injury and death in otherwise healthy young Canadians, striking without warning and leaving damage that can last a lifetime.  Dr. David Zygun knows better than most just how destructive brain trauma can be...

 We are all familiar with the unpleasant physical symptoms of stress – things like headache, irritability, and fatigue – which all stem from activity in our brain. The ability to respond to stress is an essential survival tool. However, when the stress system responds inappropriately, it can lead to mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety disorders. HBI researcher Dr. Jaideep Bains is working to understand…

HBI member, Dr. Giuseppe Iaria and graduate students Aiden Arnold and Clayton Ford Burles have created an opportunity for members of the public to directly engage in scientific research and impact the lives of children living with spatial orientation difficulties.

By engaging members of the public in crowd-funding, their new funding model allows members of the public to browse through scientific research projects from around the world. By visiting scifundchallenge.org the public can select a project and donation amount to play an active role in making scientific research happen.

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