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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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Shie Rinat
Shie is a PhD student in the Brain Behaviour Lab, under the supervision of Dr. Lara Boyd. Shie’s passion for stroke research began while working as an occupational therapist in an inpatient neurological rehabilitation unit in Tel-Aviv. Her doctoral work aims to investigate stroke in women, and specifically, the effect...
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Shilpa Rao
Currently pursuing a PhD in Molecular Medicine in Dr. Antoine Louveau’s lab, dept of Neurosciences at Lerner Research Institute. Our lab specializes in Parkinson’s Disease in minority populations, specifically in the Latin American population. My thesis investigates the association between female health factors and the severity of Parkinson’s disease in...
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Shirin Kalyan
Dr. Shirin Kalyan – Adjunct Professor (Medicine, University of British Columbia), Lead Scientist (Clinical Research Development Laboratory, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute), Chief Scientific Officer (Rare Disease Foundation), and Director of Scientific Innovation (Qu Biologics) Dr. Shirin Kalyan is an Adjunct Professor with the Department of Medicine at the University...
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Shiza Hirani
Shiza Hirani is an award-winning high school graduate, youth advocate, volunteer and a current Hill School of Business student at the University of Regina. She is a youth leader who is creative, multilingual, resilient, passionate, daring and committed to youth mentorship, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI), and community services. She...
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Shreeyaa Ramana
I am a graduate student in Clinical Psychology at Toronto Metropolitan University, with research interests in identifying factors that contribute to risk and resilience for cognitive impairment and other forms of psychopathology. My work aims to leverage these factors to design and implement lifestyle interventions that improve health outcomes, with...
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Shunya Yagi
Overall objective of my research project will focus on sex difference and the effect of estrogens on adult neurogenesis and hippocampus-related cognition in rodents. Firstly, I am looking at sex differences in cognitive flexibility and the effect of estrogens on the ability of memory encoding with examining neural plasticity and...
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Simone Vigod
Dr. Simone Vigod is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and Head of the Department of Psychiatry at Women’s College Hospital. Her background includes an Honours BSc in Psychology from McGill University (1999), an MD from the University of Toronto, U of T (2003)...
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Sol Vidal Almela
Sol is an emerging research leader in the fields of clinical exercise physiology, cardiac rehabilitation (CR), and sex and gender considerations. She has published over 20 manuscripts with co-authors from more than 10 countries. Her novel work has significantly benefited the cardiovascular disease and CR communities. For instance, five of...
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Sonia Milani
Sonia (she/her/hers) is a MA student in the Clinical Psychology program. She has been conducting research in the field of sexuality using psychophysiology and eye-tracking methods since 2016. Her master’s thesis will explore modifiable factors that promote individuals’ and couples’ sexual well-being, with the goal of developing evidence-based interventions aimed...
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Sophia Frangou
Dr. Frangou, MD, PhD, FRCPsych serves as Research Chair in Brain Health at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA. She received her Master’s Degree in Neuroscience and her PhD from the University of London, UK and...
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Sophia Tan
Sophia completed her B.Sc. in Honours Life Sciences Biology at University of Waterloo in the co-operative education program. Her current research interests focus on women’s health-related quality of life and health equity as it pertains to breast oncology and reconstruction, from identifying barriers for inclusive cancer care to investigating clinical...
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Sophia Witterick-Laskin
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