Honors and Awards

Here are some of the honors and awards received by different members of the CESH (2009-2010)

Geneviève Arsenault-Lapierre

• Age Plus Award from CIHR-IA (Institute of aging of Canadian Institutes of Health Research) (2010)
• Top-up award from IPN McGill (Integrated Program in Neuroscience) (2009-2010)
• PhD training award from ASC (Alzheimer Society of Canada) and CDKTN (Canadian Dementia Knowledge Transfer Network) (2009-2011)

Robert-Paul Juster

• 2nd Prize for Oral Presentation at the 3rd Annual Mental Health Research Young Researchers’ Conference "Lab to Life", Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre (2011)
• McGill University Internal Funding Top-Up Award, Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery (2011)
• Doctoral Research Award from the CIHR-IA (Institute of Aging of Canadian Institutes of Health Research) (2009-2012)
• Prize for poster presentation for the symposium entitled “En voir de toutes les couleurs: les émotions sous la loupe des chercheurs et des cliniciens” (2010)
• Université de Montréal prize for oral presentation at the Fernand-Seguin Research Centre’s Research Day (2009)
• Meritorious Student Abstract by the Society of Behavioral Medicine (2009)

Dr. Sonia Lupien

• Prize from Association des médecins psychiatres du Québec (AMPQ), Media Prize for the project Clé56 (Team: Alexandre Hamel, Catherine Dion, Nathe François, Jean Lepage & Sonia Lupien)
• Senior Investigator Research Chair, Institute of Gender and Health, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (2008-2013)
• National Scientist Award, Fonds de recherche en santé du Québec (2008-2013), nomimal

Marie-France Marin

• Winner of the Louis-H. Lafontaine Hospital Foundation Prize for the oral presentation at Fernand-Seguin Research Center's Annual Research Day (2011)
• Winner of the scientific vulgarisation contest - Podcast Creation, Fernand-Seguin Research Center (2011)
• Winner of the Guy Begin Prize, best scientific article (category fundamental/neuropsychology), Société québécoise pour la recherche en psychologie (2011)
• Winner of the Dr. Elie's doctoral scholarship (1st prize), Fernand-Seguin Research Center (2011)
• Winner of the best poster presentation (1st prize) at the Second day of the CIHR Research Chair on Mental Health in Men and Women, Human Nature: Women Mental Health (2011)
• Doctoral award from the Faculté des études supérieures de l’Université de Montréal (2010)
• First prize for best poster presentation at the Colloque: Les émotions sous la loupe des chercheurs et des cliniciens, Montréal (2010)
• Winner of the Concours de vulgarisation scientifique, Association francophone pour le savoir – ACFAS (2009)
• Université de Montréal poster prize at the Fernand-Seguin Research Center’s Annual Research Day (2009)
• Canadian Institutes in Health Research (CIHR), Frederick Best and Charles Banting, Ph.D. Scholarhip (2009-2012)
• Fonds de recherche en santé du Québec (FRSQ), Ph.D. Scholarship (2009-2012), declinedDoctoral scholarship, Fernand-Seguin Research Centre
• Dean’s Honours List for M.Sc. Neurological Sciences, McGill University (2009)First prize of the Concours de vulgarisation scientifique, Fernand-Seguin Research Centre (2009)
• Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship, Medicine Faculty, Université de Montréal (Jan 2009)

Dr. Lening Olivera

• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Travel Award to participate in the Early Career Poster Session at APA Annual Convention (2010)
• Travel Grant by the Canadian Psychological Association Social Sciences and Humanities Research for the CPA Annual Convention (2010)
• Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Meeting, Planning and Dissemination Grant for the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies’ workshop: “Advances in PTSD Treatment: Novel Approaches in the Modulation of the Human Fear Memory” (2010)
• Postdoctoral Fellowship Award. U.S. Department of Defense funded research project: Developing Memory Reconsolidation Blockers as Novel Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatments (2009)
• Academic Distinction Award. Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology of Ponce School of Medicine (2009)

Shireen Sindi

• FRSQ First Prize for Best Oral Presentation at the Annual Student Research Day of the Fernand-Seguin Research Center (2010)
• Douglas Foundation’s Oral Presentation Award, Douglas Institute in Mental Health Annual Student Research Day (2010)
• Louis-H. Lafontaine Hospital Foundation’s Poster Presentation Award at the Annual Student Research Day of the Fernand-Seguin Research Center (2009)
• Prize for poster presentation at the First scientific day of the Chair on Sex, Gender and Mental Health from the CIHR Institute of Gender and Health (2009)