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Silvia Pozzi wins the Marlene Reimer Brain Star of the year award from CIHR-INMHA

Congratulations to Silvia Pozzi, from Jean-Pierre Julien’s laboratory, who has won the Marlene Reimer, first prize Brain Star Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction (CIHR-INMHA).

The CIHR-INMHA Brain Star awards, administered for 2019 by the Canadian Association for Neuroscience, are awarded to students and trainees who have published high impact discoveries in all fields and disciplines covered by CIHR’s Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction in the 2019 calendar year.

View Silvia Pozzi’s profile on the Canadian Association for Neuroscience website:  Development of a new therapeutic approach to treat ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease)​ 

Read the original research article:

Pozzi S, Thammisetty SS, Codron P, Rahimian R, Plourde KV, Soucy G, Bareil C, Phaneuf D, Kriz J, Gravel C, Julien JP. Virus-mediated delivery of antibody targeting TAR DNA-binding protein-43 mitigates associated neuropathology. J Clin Invest. 2019 Feb 25;129(4):1581-1595. doi: 10.1172/JCI123931. eCollection 2019 Feb 25. (Accès libre)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6436898/