
HBHL Symposium 2025: a week later, the energy still shines!
Over 300 attendees gathered at McGill University 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 (McGill University), who explored topics from neuropsychiatry and brain network dynamics to social determinants of brain health.

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

HBHL gets solid representation at 2025 Bravo Gala
The 2025 Bravo Gala was a celebration of McGill University's research community, and HBHL is proud to have been so well represented. Congratulations to the following HBHL-supported researchers for these outstanding awards:

March Neurogenesis talks explore brain mechanisms in food choice and computational modelling
Last week, HBHL hosted the third talk of the 2024-2025 Neurogenesis Speaker Series at the Neuro, featuring Dana Small and Yashar Zeighami.

Mentorship Lunch: Exploring the next steps
What if career steering and planning did not have to wait until graduation?

First Neurogenesis talk of 2025 highlights learning and spatial coding
Yesterday, HBHL hosted the first Neurogenesis Speaker Series talk of 2025 at The Neuro, featuring Paul Masset and Pouya Bashivan.
HBHL-funded researchers clinch CIHR Fall 2024 Project Grant
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research's Project Grant: Fall 2024 competition has approved 453 research grants for a total investment of approximately $411M, with 131 projects funded in Quebec.
HBHL is proud to announce that 16 HBHL-funded researchers will receive support for eight projects, out of 23 grants awarded at McGill.

Neurogenesis Speaker Series kicks off 2024 edition
Last week, HBHL hosted the first Neurogenesis Speaker Series talk of 2024 at The Neuro, featuring Danilo Bzdok, MD, PhD and Katie Lavigne, PhD.

Mentorship Lunch: Industry Perspectives
On Tuesday, November 26, 2024, HBHL hosted a Mentorship Lunch that brought together experienced industry professionals and over 40 McGill graduate students, postdocs and postgrads over coffee and lunch at the McGill Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship. Mentors shared about their experience navigating the workforce and engaged in lively roundtable discussions with the mentees.

Spotlight on Neuro-Innovation at NeuroSphere's Demo Day
On Friday, November 8, 2024, NeuroSphere held its Demo Day at Maison Alcan in Montreal, with support from sponsors Gowling WLG and the Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation (CABHI). The event drew over 160 members of Canada's innovation ecosystem for a full day of pitches, panels and networking.

Amazing Brain Science Talks 2024: Celebrating the Mind
We're happy to announce that the 2024 Amazing Brain Science Talks video recordings are officially live on our YouTube channel. Whether you're tuning in for the first time or revisiting your favourite moments, don't miss out on these compelling talks!

Community, Culture and Research with IMPRESS 2024
The 2024 edition of the Indigenous Mentorship and Paid Research Experience for Summer Students (IMPRESS) kicked off last month, welcoming 19 students to McGill for the summer.

Highlights from HBHL Symposium 2024
Over 300 attendees gathered on May 8 and 9 at the McGill University Centre for the HBHL Symposium 2024—a two-day event showcasing the latest advances in neuroscience and brain health research.

Registration is open for HBHL Symposium 2024!
Registration is open for HBHL Symposium 2024!Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives (HBHL) will be hosting its sixth annual Symposium on May 8 and 9, 2024. The event will be held at the University Centre (Students’ Society of McGill University Building) and will feature two days of talks, networking opportunities and thoughtful exchange.

CONNECT Expertise Matchmaking: Cycle winners
Cognitive Neuroscience Knowledge Exchange for Clinical Translation (CONNECT)HBHL is proud to announce the recipients of the CONNECT Expertise Matchmaking competition. This third cycle was focused on elevating the real-world impact of cognitive neuroscience by promoting interdisciplinary collaboration. In that spirit, HBHL has funded 14 different projects! Read more about them here.