Thanks to a $20.6M investment from CIHR, the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging is embarking on its third phase to continue important and meaningful research. The nominated principal investigator of the grant is CCNA’s Scientific Director, Dr. Howard Chert...
Trainee Events The Training and Capacity Building Program is excited to announce its program for the 2018 CCNA Annual Meeting. Programming for trainees will begin on Monday, October 1st with a breakfast hosted by the Trainee Society Executive Committee. Trainees can network ov...
On June 12, CCNA Research Executive Committee member Dr. Sandra E. Black received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Waterloo and addressed convocation. A distinguished clinician scientist, Dr. Black is known around the world for her contributions to b...
CIHR Institute of Aging Betty Havens Prize for Knowledge Translation in Aging recognizes outstanding achievements and excellence in knowledge translation in aging at a local or regional level and provides financial support to further foster excellence and innovation in knowled...
Members of the CCNA research community are invited to submit abstracts for the CCNA Science Day poster sessions. This is an opportunity to showcase your work and foster collaborations with other CCNA investigators, trainees, and partner organizations. Abstracts must be submitt...
The members of the CCNA Trainee Society Executive Committee would like to invite CCNA-affiliated trainees to join the newly formed CCNA Trainee Society. If you’re interested in cultivating opportunities for partnership and growth among CCNA trainees or in issues of concern to ...
This Prize aims to support Canadian voluntary sector organizations active in the area of healthy aging in order to increase or enhance the impact of currently available knowledge in the trajectory of aging on public awareness and engage in activities that would inform the rese...
The demands on the time, energy, and emotions of caregivers put them at risk for known and profoundly negative costs to their health and well-being. Reversing the social perception of caregivers as fully responsible for meeting the needs of people living with dementia is urgen...
“Genetics is now widely applied to diagnosis, monitoring and the search for a potential treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. The ability to detect carriers of causal mutations could help evaluate the efficacy of therapies in clinical trials of individuals at either the pre...