Graduate Students
Open competition launched in January 2022.
Master's fellowships are valued at $10,000 for one year and PhD fellowships at $15,000 for one year.
HBHL Research Theme |
Level of Study |
Recipient |
Supervisor |
Project Title |
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2 |
PhD |
Abdelrahman AlOkda |
Jeremy Van Raamsdonk |
Identifying common downstream mediators of neuroprotection in C. elegans models of Parkinson's disease |
1 |
PhD |
Amin Akhshi |
Anmar Khadra |
Investigating mechanisms underlying synchronization in pyramidal cells |
2 |
PhD |
Aurelie Bussy |
Mallar Chakravarty |
Investigation of the brain in physiological and pathological aging using multi-contrast imaging techniques |
3 |
PhD |
Bruna de Souza |
Alanna Watt |
Axonal plasticity during cerebellar development |
1 |
PhD |
Charlotte Maschke |
Stefanie Blain-Moraes |
Prognosticating recovery in disorders of consciousness using dynamic EEG responses to anesthesia |
4 |
PhD |
Cindy Lucero Garcia |
Mallar Chakravarty |
Cerebral blood flow relationship with neuroanatomical changes and lifestyle in aging |
4 |
PhD |
Emmanuel Olarewaju |
Lena Palaniyappan |
Interpersonal language and motor coordination in psychosis: a neurobehavioural study in youth |
3 |
PhD |
Franziska Hildesheim |
Alexander Thiel |
Prediction of treatment response to repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and rehabilitation in stroke patients |
3 |
PhD |
Grace Allison |
Anna Weinberg |
Impacts of social and monetary neural reward response and COVID-19 stress on depression |
2 |
PhD |
Haoyi Qiu |
Reza Sharif-Naeini |
Downregulation of spinal cord parvalbumin leads to chronic pain |
2 |
PhD |
Nathan Karpilovsky |
Edward Fon |
Genetic modulators of alpha-synuclein propagation in Parkinson's Disease |
3 |
PhD |
Niloofar Gharesi |
Sylvain Baillet |
Cortical network dynamics of non-motor decisions in the human brain |
4 |
PhD |
Refilwe Mpai |
Naguib Mechawar |
Characterizing perineuronal nets in the human cerebellum: Are these structures impacted by child abuse? |
2 |
PhD |
Sajjad Feizollah |
Christine Tardif |
Development of high-resolution diffusion-weighted imaging at 7-Tesla for imaging cortical microstructure |
2 |
PhD |
Sarah Hales |
Michel Cayouette |
Regulation of the intracellular accumulation of Tau by Numb and its role in tauopathies |
2 |
PhD |
Shanny Foo |
Nathan Spreng |
A novel, multi-modal approach for early detection and staging of frontotemporal dementia disease progression |
3 |
PhD |
Sophie Sun |
Madeleine Sharp |
The role of substantia nigra and locus coeruleus degeneration in the cognitive phenotype of Parkinson's disease |
1 |
PhD |
Theresa Degenhard |
Kevin Petrecca |
Characterisation of meningioma tumor heterogeneity and origin through single cell technologies |
2 |
PhD |
Ting Qiu |
Sylvia Villeneuve |
The role of structural network efficiency in cognitive resilience to AD pathology in preclinical AD |
1 |
PhD |
Vladimir Grouza |
David Rudko |
Quantitative non-invasive evaluation of myelin g-ratio using microstructural MRI |
2 |
PhD |
Zahra Bahmanpour |
Myriam Srour |
Characterization of focal cortical dysplasias using single nucleus RNA sequencing |
1 |
PhD |
Zhen-Qi Liu |
Bratislav Misic |
Structure-function relationship of human neocortex across temporal scales |
3 |
Master's |
Caitlin Walker |
Maiya Geddes |
The Healthy Aging Brain Study: an intergenerational social motivation intervention to increase physical activity in older adults |
2 |
Master's |
Clara MacMahon |
Irah L. King |
Targeting the gut microbiome for the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease |
3 |
Master's |
David Foubert |
Edward Ruthazer |
Role of radial astrocytes on the encoding of visual signals and learning in the developing Xenopus laevis optic tectum |
3 |
Master's |
Eden Redman |
Marie-Hélène Boudrias |
A remote web-based neuroimaging platform for cognitive neuroscience researchers: at-home biosignal acquisition |
2 |
Master's |
Hannah Derue |
Alfredo Ribeiro-da-Silva |
Effect of exercise on the neuropathic component of arthritis pain: characterization and therapeutic possibilities |
4 |
Master's |
Justine Marsault |
Rachel Rabin |
Effects of chronic cannabis consumption on cognition and brain morphology in older adults |
3 |
Master's |
Madeleine Morris |
Jonathan Britt |
Role of thalamic inputs to the nucleus accumbens in compulsivity |
1 |
Master's |
Mashbayar Tugsbayar |
Blake Richards |
Biologically based recurrent visual network |
1 |
Master's |
Nagashree Thovinakere |
Maiya Geddes |
Predicting successful and sustained smoking cessation from brain structure and function |
3 |
Master's |
Nicia John |
David Ostry |
Priming iTBS with tDCS to enhance consolidation of motor adaptation tasks |
4 |
Master's |
Sivan Klil-Drori |
Soham Rej |
Modifying physical inactivity by merging behavioral economics and CBT |
3 |
Master's |
Audrey Jiang |
Kathleen Mullen |
Contrast constancy in peripheral colour vision |
2 |
Master's |
Karthikeyan Swaminathan |
Adam Hendricks |
Tau hyperphosphorylation by GSK-3β and its effect on organelle transport |