Caroline Ménard – CERVO Brain Research Centre

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.

2026-09-03

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 to explain why some people […]

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2026-08-27

An image by Adeline Collignon, from Caroline Ménard’s team, titled “The guardians of mental health” is amongst the 20 finalists of the 15th Edition of the La preuve par l’image image contest by ACFAS. Vote for Adeline’s image ( #9) by filing the form at the bottom of this page. Congratulations Adeline !

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New FRQNT team grant for Daniel Côté and Caroline Ménard

2026-08-27

New FRQNT team grant for Profs Daniel Côté and Caroline Ménard for their project titled “Cages intelligentes et méthodologie photométrique pour la surveillance continue du modèle animal d’anorexie basé sur l’activité” (Intelligent cages and photometric methodology for constant monitoring of an anorexia model animal based on activity). This is a new, highly multidisciplinary collaboration (experts in pharmacology, behavior and optics). In

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Caroline Ménard wins a grant for a France-Quebec collaborative project on neurocognitive aging

2026-08-27

Professor Caroline Ménard is the winner of the joint call for proposals for the Inserm-FRQS Bilateral Collaborative Research Program on “Neurocognitive aging, from basic research to clinical pathophysiology” for her project Aging affects cognitive functions via neurovascular alterations favoring a reduction in neurogenesis. Her FRQS-funded team will receive a maximum of $150,000 over a 3-year period. Projects will be carried

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Caroline Ménard wins the 2024 CAN New Investigator Award for groundbreaking research on stress vulnerability and resilience.

2026-08-27

The Canadian Association for Neuroscience is very proud to announce that Dr. Caroline Ménard from Université Laval is the winner of the 2024 CAN New Investigator Award. Her innovative research program is shedding light on the biological mechanisms underlying vulnerability and resilience to stress, with the help of state-of-the-art photonic technology and with the aim of developing pioneer strategies to treat or

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Caroline Ménard cited in the Washington Post

2026-08-27

Caroline Menard is quoted in a Washington Post article entitled “How inflammation in the body may explain depression in the brain”. Professor Menard explains her research showing that inflammation affects the brain “This will fragilize the blood-brain barrier,” said Caroline Ménard, an assistant professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at Université Laval and CERVO Brain Research. “So eventually, you will have

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Congratulations to Laurence Dion-Albert, Prix Relève étoile Jacques-Genest from the FRQS!

2026-08-27

Congratulations to Laurence Dion-Albert, a doctoral student in neuroscience at the CERVO Research Centre, under the supervision of Caroline Ménard, who has been awarded the FRQS Relève étoile Jacques-Genest award for May! She wins this award for the publication Vascular and blood-brain barrier-related changes underlie stress responses and resilience in female mice and depression in human tissue, published in

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Depression: differences in the brains of women and men

2026-08-27

A team led by Caroline Ménard of the CERVO Research Centre and Laval University may have discovered why major depression affects women and men differently. The team’s analyses of the brains of people who, at the time of their death, were suffering from depression revealed the presence of alterations in the brain barrier, but these alterations were located in different

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Prix du Québec: Charles Morin and Caroline Ménard honored

2026-08-27

Congratulations to Mr. Charles Morin, winner of the Léon-Gérin Prize – Humanities and Social Sciences – and to Caroline Ménard, finalist for the Emerging Scientist Award. “The Prix du Québec highlight the discoveries, achievements and innovative spirit of our greatest researchers. I am very impressed by the careers of these exceptional people, who help shape the Québec of today through

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Caroline Ménard wins the CCNP Young Investigator Award

2026-08-27

Congratulations to Caroline Ménard who has won the Canadian College of Neuropsychopharmacology Young Investigator Award ( https://ccnp.ca/ ) The Young Investigator Award, sponsored by Pfizer Canada Inc., is designed to recognize outstanding contributions in the field of research in neuropsychopharmacology by an individual young basic scientist or clinical investigator in Canada. Dr. Menard’s research program aims at deciphering the neurobiology

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