Advancing neuroscience discovery to improve neurological clinical care.

Our Researchers

Focusing on research, innovation and world-wide partnerships, we bring the best scientists, clinicians and trainees together with people who live with neurological disease and disorders, caregivers, business partners and community members to share and learn from one another. Everyone’s voice is essential in our quest to advance neuroscience discovery and improve neurological clinical care.

Meet Our Researchers

• Aaron Newman
  Research interests: neuroimaging, language, neuroplasticity, aphasia, deafness, gesture, second language acquisition, sign language

• Adam Johnston
  Research interests: stem cells and tissue regeneration, neuromuscular repair, regenerative medicine

• Adria Quiqley
  Research interests: mobility, balance, cognition, and dual-tasking ability in stroke survivors. Dr. Quigley is also interested in health equity research.

• Adrienne Weeks
  Research interests: brain surgery

• Alan Fine
  Research interests: learning and memory

• Alon Friedman, TBI Cluster Lead
  Research interests: exploring the interactions between the vascular and neuronal systems within the CNS and specifically on the involvement of microvascular pathology and blood-brain barrier dysfunction in the pathogenesis of injury-related epilepsy and neurodegeneration.

• Andy Tasker
  Research interests: mechanisms and models of neurodegenerative disease

• Angelo Iulianella
  Research interests: harnessing the process of neuron birth for cellular repair

• Balwantray Chauhan
  Research interests: Glaucoma, Retina, Optic nerve

• Benjamin Whatley
  Research interests: Epilepsy, Neurophysiology,

• Chris McGibbon
   Research interests: Age related disorders of the musculoskeletal system

• Christine Short
  Research interests: improving function and reducing pain in neurological illness and injury, managing pain and spasticity for improved function

• Colleen O’Connell
  Research interests: managing pain and spasticity for improved function

• Corey Baimel
  Research interests: Neural circuits and neuromodulation

• Cynthia Calkin
  Research interests: metabolic and neuroendocrine disorders in patients with bipolar disorder

• David Clarke
  Research interests: survival and regeneration of compromised neurons

• David Westwood
  Research interests: visual attention and control of arm movements

• Francesca Di Cara
  Research interests: neuroinflammarion , gut- brain axis, peroxisomes, genetics, Drosophila, immune metabolism, macrophages, immune signaling

• Gail Eskes

  Research interests: rehabilitation of memory / attention lost due to stroke, age, brain injury or disease 

• George Robertson
  Research interests: cell death and survival in the central nervous system

• Heather Neyedli
  Research interests: motor control, neurofeedback, human factors, ergonomics, interface design, combat identification, human-automation interaction

• Ian Weaver
  Research interests: neurobehavioural epigenetic mechanisms, early life experience, steroid hormone function, DNA and chromatin modification, programming of gene expression, cortical development, endocrine and behavioural stress responses, pharmacological interventions, psycho-social interventions

• James Fawcett
  Research interests: understanding neuronal and synaptic development to reveal strategies for repair

• Jamie Kramer
  Research interests: Epigenetics and chromatin in brain function

• Janie Wilson
  Research interests: biomechanical and statistical modeling, knee osteoarthritis development and progression

• Jason McDougall
  Research interests: understanding and treating arthritis pain

• Javeria Hashmi
  Research interests: using computational tools to study pain and cognitive processing in the brain.

• Jeremy Brown
  Research interests: pioneering new neurosurgery devices

• Joel Ross
  Research interests: stem cells, neurodevelopment, gene expression

• Johane Robitaille
  Research interests: Ocular genetics, paediatric ophthalmology

• John Frampton
  Research interests: microscale tissue engineering with an emphasis on neural tissues

• Kazue Semba
  Research interests: neurobiology of sleep

• Kevin Duffy
  Research interests: development, neuroscience, vision impairment, cellular mechanisms, neuroplasticity

• Leslie Phillmore
  Research interests: learning, memory, songbirds, perception, neurogenesis, neuroplasticity, seasonality

• Mark Paramlall
  Research interests: neuropsychiatry

• Martin Alda
  Research interests: Mapping genes for bipolar disorder using innovative phenotypic approaches; better understanding of the brain structure and function in the development and progression of mood disorders; and optimization of long term treatment and outcome in people with bipolar disorder.

• Matthias Schmidt
  Research interests: advancing medical imaging of the brain

• Melina Agosto
  Research interests: Vision, Retinal neurons, Synaptic trafficking, Macromolecular protein complexes, Glutamate receptors, Signal transduction

• Nicanor Gonzales-Morales
  Research interests: Cell Biology, Muscles, Drosophila

• Philip Tibbo

  Research interests: Schizophrenia, Early Phase Psychosis, neuroimaging, comorbid addictions, cannabis, glutamatergic system, outcomes

• Ray Klein
  Research interests: technology to help people with neurological and cognitive problems

• Richard Brown
  Research interests: behavioural endocrinology, developmental psychobiology, drugs and behaviour, behaviour of transgenic and mutant mice, development, animal behaviour, memory

• Rudolf Uher
  Research interests: classification of psychopathology, depression, mental illness

• Ruth Ann Marrie
  Research interests: the influence of comorbidity on MS-related outcomes, etiologic factors for MS, patient-reported outcomes, and prodromal MS

• Sean Christie
  Research interests: spinal surgery

• Shaun Boe
  Research interests: optimizing results of motor deficit treatments

• Steven Beyea

  Research interests: development, application and clinical/commercial translation of novel diagnostic imaging technologies

• Sultan Darvesh
  Research interests: mechanisms and diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease

• Tamara Franklin
  Research interests: epigenetics, in vivo electrophysiology, animal behaviour, neuroconnectivity, sociability

• Tara Perrot
  Research interests: development, epigenetics, behavioural endocrinology, adolescence, stress, prenatal stress, sex differences

• Timothy Bardouille

  Research interests: developing mathematical and computation approaches to measuring synchrony and communication in the human brain

• Turgay Akay
  Research interests: neural networks and control of locomotion

• Victor Rafuse, Director of BRC
  Research interests: stem cell therapies for movement disorders, development of neurons and synaptic connections involved in motor control

• William Baldridge
  Research interests: structure and function of the vertebrate retina

• Ying Zhang
  Research interests: electrophysiological properties of neurons

• Zhenyu Cheng
  Research interests: bacterial infection, host immunity, inflammation, neurodegenerative diseases, mitochondria, proteome homeostasis