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...
CCNA trainees and emerging scholars, We are creating a Trainee & Emerging Scholars Society (TESS) of the CCNA. This society will function to liaise with CCNA central and the Training & Capacity Building Program to tailor resources to our needs, create content such as w...
Guest Post The following is a guest post by Jeffrey T. Joseph, MD, PhD, Neuropathologist and Eric E. Smith, MD, MPH, Neurologist. Because the human brain is unique with respect to the function, structure, and loss of its neurons, what we can learn through animal models ...
Guest Post The following is a guest post by Drs. Gary Naglie and Mark Rapoport lead a team of researchers within the CCNA focused on driving and dementia. “It’s like a double, a quadruple whammy. In addition to having to deal with this illness, they’re suddenly confron...
Now Accepting Applications Canadian Consortium for Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA) Training Awards Applications must be submitted by Monday, November 6, 2017 The Alzheimer Society Research Program is now accepting applications for the 2018 ASRP-CCNA Research Competiti...
This unique, interactive training program will run from May 28 – June 1, 2018 and will be held in Harrison Hot Springs, BC. Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows working in, or interested in learning about, research related to the area of eHealth and aging are encou...
The following is a guest post by Lindsay Wallace, a CCNA trainee working under the supervision of Dr. Melissa Andrew. By 2031, 1.4 million Canadians are expected to have some form of cognitive impairment. As the leading cause of dementia, the impact of Alzheimer’s disease on t...
One month left to apply! In 2015, the Institute of Gender and Health launched the first Sex as a Variable in Biomedical Research Catalyst Grant competition. This funding opportunity aimed to encourage biomedical scientists to include sex as a variable in t...
The following is a guest post by Elly Park, a CCNA post-doctoral trainee working under the supervision of Dr. Lili Liu. Everyone has a story to tell and memories that they want to preserve. Technological advances have made it possible to capture our stories in many forms, reli...