Winner of Albert J. Aguayo Fellowship announced

A joint IBRO-FRSQ-INMHA fellowship

Rolando Avilés Reyes

The Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec (FRSQ) and the Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction (INMHA) of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) in partnership with IBRO are pleased to announce the award of the newly created Albert J. Aguayo Fellowship to Rolando Avilés Reyes of the Cellular Biology and Neuroscience Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Buenos Aires University, Argentina.

The Albert J. Aguayo Fellowship, named after Dr Albert J. Aguayo, past President and past Secretary-General of the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO), marks Dr Aguayo's outstanding contribution to neuroscience in Quebec, Canada and the world.

The purpose of the fellowship is to provide the opportunity for young researchers from developing countries to spend a three-month term in a Quebec laboratory or research centre in order to enhance their training and career development in the field of neuroscience research.

Rolando Avilés Reyes will spend three months in the host laboratory of Dr Phil Barker, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University Health Centre (MUHC). Rolando's research interests are in sleep apnea and while in Montreal he hopes to learn certain molecular biology techniques and apply protocols that will answer specific neuroscience questions. He will also work on the secondary effects of intermittent hypoxia from which sleep apnea patients suffer.

Roland will work in Montreal from March 1 to June 1, 2010, when he will return to his Buenos Aires laboratory. There he intends to analyze the NFKB role in sleep apnea, at the same time using the molecular biology techniques he has learned in Montreal.