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Undergraduate Summer Research Internship

HBHL has funded 20 undergraduate student research internships (valued at $10,000 each) in brain and mental health research.

This funding compensates students for their research over the course of 16 weeks (between May 2024 to August 2024) and provides them with the opportunity to gain valuable research and networking experience. All funded projects are aligned with one of HBHL’s research themes.

2024 HBHL Undergraduate Summer Research Internship

Open competition launched in February 2024.

HBHL RESEARCH THEME

RECIPIENT SUPERVISOR PROJECT TITLE

2

Aiden (Jihong) Lee

Majid Mohajerani

The effect of tactile stimulation on AD-like symptoms of mice

2

Alyssa Abou-Chakra

Alanna Watt

Evaluating the expression of BDNF in the ARSACS cerebellum

4

Audrée Bujold

Massimilliano Orri

Investigating sex differences in the association between prenatal exposure to tobacco and trajectory of depressive symptoms from childhood to adolescence: a longitudinal cohort study

1

Carolina Zveiris

Boris Bernhardt

Evaluating systematic review automation in epilepsy using chatGPT

2

Finn Creeggan

Jack Antel

GliaScope MS: A comprehensive analysis of the epigenetic and transcriptomic landscapes of CNS glia cells to assess their propensity for autoimmune targeting in Multiple Sclerosis

3

Georgia Chen

Masha Prager-Khoutorsky

The role of hypothalamic adult-born neurons in the regulation of thirst and blood pressure

2

Hannah Buchanan

Arkady Khoutorsky

APOE polymorphisms affect microglial reactivity in response to nerve injury, modulating the development of neuropathic pain

1

Ivy Guo

David Benrimoh

Modeling mood episodes in bipolar disorders through digital phenotyping

4

Logane Dupont

Martin Lepage

Bringing nature into a psychiatric ward: virtual travel for inpatient care in people with lived experience of a severe mental disorder

2

Lucky Wang

Ji Zhang

Exploring the direct impact of aging-associated systemic inflammation on microglia function

2

Lucy Han

Jean-Francois Poulin

Assessing the selective vulnerability of dopamine in a new model of Parkinson’s Disease

4

Nicole Iordache

Sarah Racine

Exploring associations between conceptualizations of thought-shape fusion and “feeling fat”

4

Pamela Fankem

Charlotte Usselman

Exploring the relationship between heart rate variability and depressive symptoms in females with PCOS

1

Parnia Akhavansaffar

David Benrimoh

Deep phenotyping and digitalization in patients with psychosis

2

Riv Beauchesne

Sylvia Villeneuve

The effects of socioeconomic status (SES) on the rate of progression of Alzheimer's Disease

3

Robin Steedman-Braun

Jonathan Britt

The effect of adolescent cannabis exposure on flexible decision making

3

Victor Dekarli

Xiaoqian Chai

Self-referential episodic memory in children with autism

1

Yifan Zhao

Anmar Khadra

Understanding the impact of noradrenaline on cerebellar interneuron excitability through mathematical modelling

2

Yuxin Xie

Yang Zhou

Construct and test novel AAV vectors for fine-tuning of FXN gene in cell culture

3

Zhengze Jiang

Tomoko Ohyama

Elucidating the role of basin-2 interneuron in drosophila pain circuits

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