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Emily Anne Opala2025-09-10 12:00:442025-09-10 10:32:41Dr. Jennifer Williams Receives OBI-Banting Discovery Award for Brain Health ResearchLet us Feature Your Work
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Celine Bencker
I am a PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Vienna. My work focuses on understanding the complex psychobiological relationship between premenstrual symptoms and stress across the menstrual cycle. Furthermore, I am generally interested in broader aspects of female mental health and affective changes throughout the female reproductive...
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Celine Camon
Celine is a final year PhD Candidate in the Centre for Neuroendocrinology at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She completed her BSc (Hons) in physiology while in Ireland and is currently undertaking a laboratory exchange at UCLA in Los Angeles. Celine research interests are around understanding how estrogen treatment,...
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Chantal Rytz
Chantal Rytz is a PhD Candidate at the University of Calgary.
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Charity Mudhikwa
Charity is a graduate student in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University in the Master of Science in Public Health program. Her research is focused on understanding how racism is measured in epidemiological research in Canada, and also exploring associations with women’s sexual health outcomes. She also...
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Charlie Waugh
My research interests lie in the broad area of musculoskeletal health and rehabilitation and focus on 1) the adaptability of the system to mechanical and biological stresses, and 2) optimizing the system for movement outcomes and injury prevention. Research Areas: Biomedical, Clinical, Medical Education Keywords: musculoskeletal adaptation, sex hormones, injury
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Charlis Raineki
My laboratory’s work examines how our unique experiences across development have profound impacts on our brains and behavior. Our primary research interest is to uncover biological mechanisms underlying neurobehavioral deficits induced by pre- and/or early postnatal adverse experiences, with a special focus on understanding the increased vulnerability to develop psychopathologies...
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Chinmayi Balusu
Chinmayi is a student pursuing neuroepidemiology and medical humanities at Columbia University in New York City. She is a researcher at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Stanford Medicine with interests in cognitive neuroscience, brain injury, and stroke. Chinmayi serves as the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Simply Neuroscience,...
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Chloe Guinaudie
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Chloe White
I am currently pursuing my PhD in Dr. Tom Velenosi’s lab in the UBC faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. My work focuses on the use of analytical techniques to guide the development of precision therapeutics for triple negative breast cancer in preclinical models. I am passionate about women’s health and science...
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Christie MacLeod
Christie MacLeod is a doctoral student in clinical psychology at McMaster University. Her clinical and research work takes place at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton in the Women’s Health Concerns Clinic and Mood Disorders Clinic. Her research aims to explore potential neural mechanisms for the sex-related difference in prevalence of depression....
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Christina Kolios
Clinical Pharmacist with a special interest in contraceptive choice, managing side effects, and patient education
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Christina Ragan
I earned my PhD in Neuroscience in 2011 from Penn State University, and then I went on to do Postdoctoral research in Dr. Joseph Lonstein’s lab at Michigan State University. After that, I became a Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Colgate University. In 2017, I took a...
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