Dr. Nir Lipsman is appointed as the new Chief, Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, effective July 1, 2024.

Congratulations to Dr. Sean Nestor, clinician investigator and interventional psychiatrist at Sunnybrook’s Harquail Centre for Neuromodulation, on receiving the 2022 Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research grant from Brain Canada, a national convenor of those who support and advance brain research.

Dr. Ayal Schaffer, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and Associate Scientist with the Sunnybrook Research Institute, has co-authored a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine looking at adjunctive antidepressant maintenance in bipolar depression.