Graduate Students
Open competition launched in January 2024.
Master's fellowships are valued at $10,000 for one year and PhD fellowships at $15,000 for one year.
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HBHL RESEARCH THEME |
LEVEL OF STUDY | RECIPIENT | SUPERVISOR | PROJECT TITLE |
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| 1 | PhD | Aliza Brzezinski Rittner | Yashar Zeighami | Modeling sex-specific brain aging trajectories in health and neurodegenerative disorders |
| 2 | PhD | Aura Tamez Gonzalez | Jeremy Van Raamsdonk | Role of cellular resilience pathways in neurodegenerative disease |
| 2 | PhD | Benjamin Rogers | Alanna Watt | Exploring circadian dysfunction in a mouse model of spinocerebellar ataxia |
| 3 | PhD | Caitlin Walker | Maiya Geddes | An intergenerational social motivation intervention to increase physical activity in older adults at risk for Alzheimer's disease |
| 4 | PhD | Camille Heguy | Marie Brossard-Racine | Effects of neonatal respiratory morbidities on hippocampal development and neurodevelopmental outcomes during the first year of life of very preterm individuals |
| 3 | PhD | Franziska Mudlaff | Aparna Suvrathan | The role of endocannabinoid-mediated short-term plasticity in Fragile X Syndrome |
| 2 | PhD | Hanan Mohammad | Paul Clarke | Therapeutic potential of biased D1R agonists in the treatment of Parkinson's disease |
| 2 | PhD | Hunter Murdoch | Maia Kokoeva | Role of Mitotic Senescence of NG2-glia in Remyelination Impairment in MS |
| 2 | PhD | Jasmine Phenix | Lisa Munter | The role of the cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) in Alzheimer's Disease |
| 3 | PhD | Je Sern (Zac) Yeap | Rachel Rabin | Investigating the Interactive Effects of Cannabis and Tobacco Co-Use on Episodic Memory and its Associated Brain Activity |
| 1 | PhD | Ke Xie | Boris Bernhardt | In vivo mapping of the cortex-wide excitation-inhibition imbalance in drug-resistant focal epilepsy |
| 4 | PhD | Malka Hershon | Marie-Hélène Pennestri | Feeding Method, Sleep, and Depressive Symptoms in First-Time Parents |
| 3 | PhD | Maria Jose Castro Gomez | Pia Wintermark | Use of diffusion-tensor imaging to study repair in the injured neonatal brain |
| 4 | PhD | Megan Davies | Manuela Ferrari | Video Games, Emotions & Well-Being: Understanding Video Game Streaming in Young People |
| 3 | PhD | Melissa Pestemalciyan | Timothy Kennedy | Investigating the Role of Netrin-3 in an Autism-like Neurodevelopmental Disorder |
| 2 | PhD | Naama Brezner | Keith Murai | Astrocyte Development and Heterogeneity in CNS Health and Disease |
| 3 | PhD | Niharika Dighe | Jonathan Britt | The role of striatal projection neurons in regulating flexible decision making |
| 3 | PhD | Refilwe Mpai | Naguib Mechawar | Characterizing perineuronal nets in the human cerebellum: are these structures impacted by child abuse? |
| 4 | PhD | Reine Khoury | Corina Nagy | Running from Stress: Investigating Exercise-Induced Small Extracellular Vesicles and their Potential in Alleviating Major Depressive Disorder |
| 1 | PhD | Shawniya Alageswaran | Jesper Sjöström | The metaplasticity of neocortical microcircuits |
| 1 | PhD | Tamires Marcal | Alan Evans | Multimodal Integration Interface and Brain Activity Interpretable Model |
| 2 | Master's | Alice Mukora | Mallar Chakravarty | Investigation of the relationship between menopause and other lifestyle risk factors on the aging brain |
| 3 | Master's | Cong Loc Dang | Anne McKinney | Rescuing behavioral deficits and synaptic structure by modulating the actin associated protein synaptopodin in preclinical murine models of autism spectrum disorders |
| 4 | Master's | Farida Zaher | Lena Palaniyappan | Natural Language Processing to Detect Mental State Effects of Ketamine in Depression |
| 4 | Master's | Gabriella Malamud | Rachel Rabin | Investigating Sex Differences in the Cannabis Withdrawal Trajectory During 28 Days of Cannabis Abstinence |
| 2 | Master's | Ishana Rue | Simon Ducharme | Longitudinal Neurofilament light as a clinical tool to differentiate frontotemporal dementia from primary psychiatric disorders |
| 3 | Master's | Jiaxuan Deng | Katie Lavigne | From brain connectivity to social functioning in at-risk-youth: A multiscale approach to understanding neuropsychosocial pathways of severe mental illness |
| 2 | Master's | Jiayue Yang | Justine Cléry | Novel Imaging and Behavioral Biomarkers for Early and High-Precision Monitoring of Parkinson’s Disease Progression |
| 3 | Master's | Lina Sifi | Mallar Chakravarty | The influence of long-term hormone suppression on brain structure and function |
| 2 | Master's | Nicholas Price | Susanne Bechstedt | Molecular Characterization of TPPP and its Aggregation in Multiple Systems Atrophy |
| 1 | Master's | Xing Shen | Tal Arbel | Predicting Multiple Sclerosis Disease Progression with Fairness-aware Causal Representation Learning |
