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Lisa Saksida is a Professor and a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Translational Cognitive Neuroscience at Western University. With a PhD from Carnegie Mellon and postdoctoral training at the National Institutes of Health, her research focuses on understanding brain circuits and mechanisms underlying cognition in both healthy and diseased states, with particular attention to disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia. Her innovative work has led to the development of touchscreen-based cognitive assessment systems and mouse models to study the neurobiological underpinnings of cognition. Saksida has received numerous accolades including Fellow status at the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. She contributes to open-access databases to maximize the impact of her research and believes in the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in scientific inquiry.
Western University • London, Ontario, Canada
Leading research on the cognitive mechanisms of behavior and disease models at Western University.
Streams include Archaeology and Bioarchaeology, and Sociocultural Anthropology.