Two CERVO researchers among Brain Canada’s Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research
Sahara Khademullah and Antoine Godin, researchers at the CERVO Brain Research Centre, are part of the latest cohort of Brain Canada’s Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research program. Each receives $100,000 for a project tackling the same problem: the loss of inhibition that makes neural circuits hyperactive in neurodegenerative diseases. Sahara Khademullah will study frontotemporal…
Do Election Promises Pass the Science Test?
In an article in La Presse, Joël Macoir, a retired professor and researcher at the CERVO Research Centre, suggests putting election promises through a kind of peer review, as in science. He examines five pledges. According to a meta-analysis, the Liberal Party’s (PLQ) telehealth platform would not reduce emergency room visits. The link the Parti…
Title: Is the Brain the Product of Two Merged Organs?
Stanford University neuroscientists believe the brain was originally two distinct organs that evolved independently over hundreds of millions of years. Studying the earliest stages of brain development in mice, they isolated two cell types that never overlap. One, linked to the Otx2 gene, forms the forebrain and midbrain; the other, linked to Gbx2, forms the…
The 2026 Margolese National Prize for Brain Disorders was recently awarded to Professor Yves De Koninck
The 2026 Margolese National Prize for Brain Disorders was recently awarded to Professor Yves De Koninck for revolutionizing the understanding of chronic pain. Her work has paved the way for new therapeutic approaches and improved patient outcomes. Dr. De Koninck holds the position of Director of Research at Santé Québec Capitale-Nationale – Universitaire in addition…
Gene therapy in primates: a first at CERVO
Sébastien Tremblay’s team, in close collaboration with animal health technicians, the CERVO Imaging Platform, and veterinarians from Université Laval’s DSV and the University of Pennsylvania, has achieved a first in Quebec: the robotic, MRI-guided administration of a gene therapy in a primate. Our imaging and translational neurosurgery infrastructure makes it possible to track the diffusion…
Pascale Tremblay elected to the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists
Congratulations to Pascale Tremblay, who has been elected to the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. The College is the fourth entity of the Royal Society of Canada, alongside its three Academies and its Institutional Members. Unlike them, it forms a single, indivisible, bilingual and multidisciplinary body. Its mandate is to bring together scholars,…
The Association des médecins psychiatres du Québec (AMPQ) unveils its Scientific Article of the Year
Recipients of the Best Synthesis Paper Award from the Association des médecins psychiatres du Québec, Drs. Yasmine Nadifi, Ileana Popa, Laurence Brochu and Gabrielle Girard, four senior psychiatry residents completing a research rotation with Michel Maziade, have just published the results of their work as an original editorial position paper in the Canadian Journal of…
2026 ADESAQ Award of Excellence for Laurence Albert-Dion
Laurence Dion-Albert’s doctoral thesis, completed in Caroline Ménard’s laboratory, received a 2026 ADESAQ Award of Excellence in the Health Sciences category. Her thesis, “Sex-dependent regulation of cerebrovascular integrity in chronic social stress and depression,” examines alterations of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) as a mechanism of major depressive disorder, with a focus on sex differences, which…
Caroline Ménard, professor and researcher at the CERVO Brain Research Centre, receives the 2026 André-Dupont Prize from the Club de recherches cliniques du Québec.
Caroline Ménard, a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Université Laval and a researcher at the CERVO Brain Research Centre, has received the André-Dupont Prize from the Club de recherches cliniques du Québec, awarded each year for outstanding biomedical research by an early-career scientist (within their first ten years). Her work seeks…
The CERVO Foundation and Research Centre is launching the fourth edition of the PICTURE COMPETITION for the creation of the CERVO Calendar
The CERVO Foundation and Research Centre is launching the fourth edition of the PICTURE COMPETITION for the creation of the CERVO Calendar! This calendar will be printed in large quantities to be offered free of charge to visitors, donors, collaborators and CERVO members. It has become an annual showcase for research initiatives in line with…
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