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Alan Evans wins prestigious RSC McLaughlin Medal
On September 14, the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) announced the names of fifteen Canadian scientists, scholars, and researchers honoured with RSC awards and medals for outstanding achievements in their fields. Professor Alan Evans is the 2021 recipient of the prestigious RSC McLaughlin Medal for important research of sustained excellence in medical science. Evans will …
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Canadian research platform receives major funding boost
Brain Canada is pleased to announce the awarding of a $1,844,900 2019 Platform Support Grant (PSG) to Dr. Alan Evans and team at the Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital (The Neuro). This funding will support the EEGNet platform, an open repository for electroencephalogram (EEG) data, to better investigate neurodevelopmental, psychiatric, and neurodegenerative brain disorders.
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Unlocking the enigma of brain disorders
Computational neuroscientists like Dr. Alan Evans are taking the next giant step towards understanding brain disorders thanks to a major gift from alumnus Marc Sievers.
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Six early-career researchers receive leadership grants
Six McGill University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences researchers — Boris Bernhardt, Mark Brandon, Yasser Iturria-Medina, Jean-Francois Poulin, Jo Anne Stratton and Masha Prager-Khoutorsky — have received grants to support their work in the early-career stage, after being chosen from 150 talented applicants. read full article at reporter.McGill.ca
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MNI research associate wins prestigious BBRF Young Investigator Grant
Budhachandra Singh Khundrakpam of The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) of McGill University and the National Institute for Mental Health (NIH) has won a prestigious award from New York-based Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF).
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Alan Evans one of five Killam Award 2020 Winners
Killam Prizes honour eminent Canadian scholars in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, health sciences and engineering. These outstanding researchers have distinguished themselves within their respective fields, and their work has deep and positive impact on our lives. They each receive a $100,000 prize Further information at canadacounsel.ca
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Delegates from Beijing Xuanwu Hospital visit the MCIN
At a recent conference held at the Montreal Neurological Institute, delegates from the Beijing Xuanwu Hospital paid a visit to the MCIN and experienced the BigBrain.
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MCIN teams up with Cancer Computer
Cancer Computer recently donated and installed a high-throughput compute cluster at McGill University to support the Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics & Mental Health. The previously used servers were donated to Cancer Computer by corporate partners upgrading their own equipment and will help advance omics-based research in both brain health and cancer. The Ludmer Centre will …
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HBM 2020 Promotional Video
HBM 2020 will be hosted in Montreal. Watch the newly released promotional video.
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Alan Evans honoured for his lifetime contribution to the field of neuroimaging
The Organization for Human Brain Mapping, the largest international scientific society for neuroimaging-based brain research, has honoured Prof. Alan C. Evans with its Glass Brain Award The award, presented to Evans at the 2019 OHBM congress in Rome, recognizes lifetime achievement in the use of brain mapping to make significant discoveries about the human brain. read the …
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CONP Annual Meeting 2019
The Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform is hosting their annual meeting in the Royal Canadian Military Institute, Toronto. This meeting will cover the work completed to date, as well as the future aims and goals. Demo video of the CONP portal prototype More information about this annual meeting can be found on the conp.ca website.
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Visitors from the CEA experience the BigBrain
On April 24 2019, the Montreal Neuro hosted visitors from the Centre D’Education des Adultes. During their visit, the groups had a chance to experience the BigBrain at the MCIN.
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Bavarian Delegation experiences the BigBrain
On April 15, 2019, The Neuro welcomed members of the Bavarian Delegation who were in Montreal to learn about Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Universities. The visitors toured the BigBrain, part of Alan Evan’s lab, The Neuro’s Open Biobank and Early Drug Discovery Platform, the new 7T MRI, and the Network Neuroscience lab of …
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FPGA Workshop held at McGill University
On April 3 and 4th at McGill University, an Intel training workshop on how to accelerate computational science through the use of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) was held. The event was sponsored by Dell/EMC, Intel, and the Healthy Brains for Healthy Lives Neurohub Project and over the two days experts from Intel gave scientists …
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Students from Marianopolis College visit the Neuro
On January 16th, students from Marianopolis College toured the Neruo and experienced the BigBrain.
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Representatives from Logitech Visit the MCIN
On Monday November 26th, representatives from Logitech visited the MCIN and experienced the BigBrain.
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Road to 200: Can big data help explain how our brains work?
Event date: November 13, 2018 (Registration required. Please follow link below) Alumni, friends and students are invited to a public symposium highlighting the powerful research at McGill’s Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics & Mental Health. Five Ludmer Centre researchers will take five minutes each to share how their work is shaping our understanding of mental illness …
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Dr. Alan Evans awarded the CRCQ prix du Mentor
Dr Alan Evans was awarded the CRCQ prix du Mentor for his years of contribution in training and mentoring scientists, researchers, and developers from a variety of industries; many of which have themselves moved on to great achievements. Le prix du Mentor du CRCQ est remis annuellement à un chercheur dont l’envergure du mentorat fut …
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CONP Student Scholar Program
Open to graduate students or students doing an advanced degrees Award for a period of up to 1 year (possibility of renewal) Awards of up to $25,000 CAD/year Application Deadline: November 30th, 2018 @ 23:59 Contact: scholarships@conp.ca The CONP is pleased to announce the first edition of its Student Scholar Program that will support and …
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Workshop prepares young researchers to be smart users of machine learning tools
Young scientists in the field of cognitive neuroscience got expert guidance and hands-on training in machine learning at a workshop organized by Healthy Brains for Healthy Lives (HBHL) and the McGill Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (MCIN), from October 15 to 17. Lesson number one: Beware of the buzz. Read the full article
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