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8 October 2025

Advancing Women’s Mental Health: Dr. Simone Vigod Appointed Family Chair of Psychiatry

Dr Simone Vigod, WHRC member and senior scientist at Women’s College Hospital was recently named Labatt Family Chair of Psychiatry at The University of Toronto. Dr. Vigod’s research aims to address disparities in health and health care for individuals with psychiatric disorders, with a specific focus on women across the lifespan and on equity in access to treatment…

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10 September 2025

Dr. Jennifer Williams Receives OBI-Banting Discovery Award for Brain Health Research

Dr. Jennifer  Williams, a former postdoctoral fellow in clinical cardiovascular physiology at the University of Toronto and incoming Assistant Professor at Wilfrid  Laurier  University, has been awarded the prestigious 2025 Ontario Brain Institute – Banting Discovery Award. This accolade supports outstanding early-career researchers tackling critical brain and heart…

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13 August 2025

Recognizing Innovation in Drug Delivery: Dr. Hagar Labouta Wins 2025 Rising Women in Science Award

Dr. Hagar Labouta, Assistant Professor at the University of Manitoba and a valued member of the Women’s Health Research Cluster, has been awarded the 2025 Rising Women in Science Award by the Controlled Release Society. This prestigious recognition highlights her trailblazing contributions to precision drug delivery and her commitment to advancing women’s health through…

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9 July 2025

Charting the Brain’s Sex Differences: Dr. Alex DeCasien Earns 2024 BoSD Early Career Award

Dr. Alex R. De Casien, Ph D, Stadtman Investigator in the Laboratory of Neurogenetics at NIH’s National Institute on Aging, has won the 2024 Biology of Sex Differences Early Career Award for their paper “ Sex differences in the human brain: a roadmap for more careful analysis and interpretation of a biological reality.” In their 2022 Bo SD paper, Dr. De Casien and…

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11 June 2025

Championing Change: Shiza Hirani receives RCE Saskatchewan Education for Sustainable Development Recognition Award

Shiza Hirani, Youth Advisor to a Canadian Senator and a Global Youth Ambassador for Sustainable Development Goal #4 (Quality Education), has recently been awarded the prestigious “ RCE Saskatchewan Education for Sustainable Development Recognition Award” from the Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan, Canada. The award was presented in recognition of Shiza’s outstanding…

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14 May 2025

Furthering Women’s Cardiovascular Health Research: Tarrah Ethier Secures Funding for Cardiovascular Health Study

Tarrah Ethier, a Translational Medicine Ph D Student at Queen’s University recently achieved a new milestone in her graduate training. Tarrah received just under $5,000 in funding to work on a project analyzing immune regulation, sex hormones & cardiovascular aging. As part of her work, she gave a public lecture at the E. K. Dawson Research in Aging symposium. Tarrah’s…

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