Fondation Brain Canada / Brain Canada Foundation

Brain canada is a national non-profit organization that enables and supports excellent innovative paradigm-changine brain research in canada. It plays a unique and invaluable role as the national convener of the brain research community. We join people labs and platforms across the country as well as institutions organizations and sectors - to drive innovation and foster and interconnected brain research system. Our work enables canada to excell and make even greater contributions to the global quest to understand the brain and identify solutions to brain disorders. By developing transformative research programs that address areas critical to advancing brain research brain canada has established a track record of supporting high-risk high-reward research across disease areas across the lifespan and across all stages of research. -25 open call competitions -10 new programs -110 grans awarded -54 institutions supported -183 researchers supported -383 students trainees and highly qualified personnel engaged through its programs brain canada has developed a pipeline of research talent fostering the pursuit of new ideas by trainees and early careet scientists enabled collaboration among researchers and supported platforms that researchers need to share knowledge data and protocols enhance expertise across laboratories and learch from each other to accelerate progress. Together with our valued partners the inaugural personnel awards for indigenous scholars was created to strengthen the indigenous health research workforce and build capacity for cardiovascular and brain research in canada. Additionally over this period brain canada undertook an extensive consultation process to understand and prioritize the needs of diverse stakeholders related to traumatic brain injury engaging stakeholders throughout and putting their needs front and centre to ensure that research can achieve maximum impact. The result of the consultation informed th