Leo and Rachel Hendlisz Award

The Leo and Rachel Hendlisz Awards are given to the best research articles of the year published by students and postdoctoral fellows of the Douglas Research Centre.

Prix Leo et Rachel Hendlisz 2023

lauren_mckenzie_reynolds1st place : Lauren Reynolds (team of Cecilia Flores)
for her article “Amphetamine disrupts dopamine axon growth in adolescence by a sex-specific mechanism in mice.”  Nature Communications, 2023.

 

 

2nd place : Rixing Lin (team Gustavo Turecki)
for his article “SNORD90 induces glutamatergic signaling following treatment with monoaminergic antidepressants.” eLIFE, 2023.

 

 

Stephanie Tullo3rd place : Stephanie Tullo (team of Mallar Chakravarty)
for her article Neuroanatomical and cognitive biomarkers of alpha-synuclein propagation in a mouse model of synucleinopathy prior to onset of motor symptoms. Journal of Neurochemistry, 2023.

 

 

Prix Leo et Rachel Hendlisz 2022

hendlisz awardees 2022

  • 1st place : Cherie Strikwerda-Brown (team of Sylvia Villeneuve)
    for her article “Association of elevated amyloid and tau positron emission tomography signal with near-term development of Alzheimer disease symptoms in older adults without cognitive impairment”, JAMA Neurology, 2022.
  • 2nd place : Johnson Ying (team of Mark Brandon)
    for his article “Disruption of the grid cell network in a mouse model of early Alzheimer’s disease”, Nature Communications, 2022.
  • 3rd place : Vincent Paquin (team of Marie-Claude Geoffroy)
    for his article “Longitudinal trajectories of food insecurity in childhood and their associations with mental health and functioning in adolescence”, JAMA Network Open, 2021.
Prix Leo et Rachel Hendlisz 2021
  • 1st place : Angélica Torres-Berrío (team of Cecilia Flores)
    for her article “miR-218 in Adolescence Predicts and Mediates Vulnerability to StressBiological Psychiatry, 2021.
  • 2nd place : Aurélie Bussy (team of Mallar Chakravarty)
    for her article “Hippocampal subfield volumes across the healthy lifespan and the effects of MR sequence on estimates“, NeuroImage, 2021.
  • 3rd place : Lani Cupo (team of Mallar Chakravarty)
    for her article “Timing, Distribution, and Relationship Between Nonpsychotic and Subthreshold Psychotic Symptoms Prior to Emergence of a First Episode of Psychosis, Schizophrenia Bulletin, 2021.
Prix Leo et Rachel Hendlisz 2020
Prix Leo et Rachel Hendlisz 2019

Hendlisz Event 2019

  • 1st place : Scott Bell (team of Carl Ernst)
    for his article”Mutations in ACTL6B Cause Neurodevelopmental Deficits and Epilepsy and Lead to Loss of Dendrites in Human NeuronsAm. J. Hum. Genet., 2019.
  • 2nd place : Gerald Jordan (team of Srividya Iyer et Ashok Malla)
    for his article “Disruption of the grid cell network in a mouse model of early Alzheimer’s disease”, Nature Communications, 2022.
  • 3rd place : Amanda Larosa (team of Tak Pan Wong)
    for her article  “Negative Memory Engrams in the Hippocampus Enhance the Susceptibility to Chronic Social Defeat Stress, J. Neurosci., 2019.
Prix Leo et Rachel Hendlisz 2018
Prix Leo et Rachel Hendlisz 2017
Prix Leo et Rachel Hendlisz 2016