Marlene Reimer Brain Star of the Year award

Bahareh Ajami from the University of British Columbia is the recipient of the 2008 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 2009. Bahareh was a Brain Star awardee of 2008.

Ajami B, Bennett JL, Krieger C, Tetzlaff W, Rossi FM. Local self-renewal can sustain CNS microglia maintenance and function throughout adult life. Nat Neurosci. 2007 Dec; 10(12):1538-43

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.