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Top neuroscientist recruited to Western from U.K.

Adrian Owen

One of the world’s foremost neuroscientists, Adrian Owen, has been recruited to Western as a Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) and will bring his remarkable research program from Cambridge University.

Owen, who was awarded $10 million from the federal government’s CERC
program to conduct his research in Canada, will bring with him his entire
research team and will join Western’s world-renowned Centre for Brain & Mind on January 1, 2011.

As the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Neuroscience and Imaging, Owen will study the cognitive deficits – problems in perceiving, thinking, reasoning and remembering – in patients suffering from neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, Alzheimer’s and ALS. Drawing on Western’s expertise in genetics, cognitive neuroscience, neurology and brain imaging, he will also explore the causes of neurodegenerative diseases, with the goal of improving early detection and treatment.

For more information about Dr. Owen, please visit his website.

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