Marlene Reimer Brain Star of the Year award

Bahareh Ajami from the University of British Columbia is the recipient of the 2011 Marlene Reimer Brain Star of the Year award. Bahareh received the award for an article published in the Nature Neuroscience journal. The paper was presented to the Canadian Association of Neuroscience in Vancouver, British Columbia in May of 2012. Bahareh was a Brain Star awardee of 2008.

Ajami B, Bennett JL, Krieger C, McNagny KM , Rossi FM. Infiltrating monocytes trigger EAE progression, but do not contribute to the resident microglia pool. Nat Neurosci. 2011 September; 14 (9):1142-1149

Marlene Reimer was an inaugural member of INMHA advisory board, the first chair of its focus group on training and education and a strong supporter of the Brain Star Award. She unfortunately passed away in 2005.

Congratulations to the recipient!