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. The 2025 awardees were announced at a special scientific event held on December 2, 2025.
Here are the names of the winners:
- 1st place : $1000
Anjali Chawla (team Gustavo Turecki & Corina Nagy)
for her article “Single-nucleus chromatin accessibility profiling identifies cell types and functional variants contributing to major depression.” Nature Genetics, 2025
- 2nd place : $500
Aliza Brzezinski-Rittner (team Yahsar Zeighami)
for her article “Disentangling the effect of sex from brain size on brain organization and cognitive functioning.” GeroScience, 2025
- 3rd place : $250
Jess Ahrens (team Lena Palaniyappan)
for her article “Convergence of Cannabis and Psychosis on the Dopamine System.” JAMA Psychiatry, 2025
Congratulations to the recipients and thank you to all the applicants and to everyone who made this competition and the associated event possible, notably Mr. Jacques Hendlisz and the Douglas Foundation, the Douglas Research Centre, the members of the application review committee, and the student committee for academic life at The Douglas.