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Anastassia Voronova
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Canada Research Chair in Neural Stem Cell Biology. Sloan Research Fellow in Neuroscience. Killam Laureate. Associate Professor at the University of Alberta. Views are my own.
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Anastassia Voronova @amvoronova.bsky.social · Oct 1
Honoured to be selected as one of the trailblazing Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research by @braincanada.bsky.social! The future of neural stem cell research is bright. braincanada.ca/announcement...
New Future Leaders Grants
Brain Canada is pleased to announce the latest cohort of Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research (Future Leaders). This flagship program provides vital funding to early-career scientists whose bold ...
braincanada.ca
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elife.bsky.social
Evidence from 14 research funding programmes confirms that early winners tend to keep winning (Matthew effect). But the idea that an early setback makes you stronger later doesn’t replicate widely.
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eLife Assessment This important study reports the results of efforts to replicate two phenomena of significant interest to early-career scientists and scientific policymakers: the Matthew effect and the early-career setback effect. Several previous studies of these effects have focused on early-career researchers with grant proposals that fell just below or just above a funding threshold. Those just above the threshold were more likely to be successful when they applied for funding later in the career (an example of the well-known Matthew effect), while those just below were more likely to go on to have stronger publication records (the early-career setback effect). In this study the Matthew effect was found to be robust across funders, and to generalize from those close to the funding threshold to the whole population. The early-career setback effect was not robust across funders and did not generalize to the whole population. The evidence reported is convincing.
November 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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drddom.bsky.social
Dear CIHR Reviewers, pls keep in mind that knowledge users on grants see the reviews. If you tell us a protein/gene is not interesting/less important because it's rare, it reads as those patients aren't important.
November 5, 2025 at 11:32 PM
amvoronova.bsky.social
Honoured to be selected as one of the trailblazing Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research by @braincanada.bsky.social! The future of neural stem cell research is bright. braincanada.ca/announcement...
New Future Leaders Grants
Brain Canada is pleased to announce the latest cohort of Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research (Future Leaders). This flagship program provides vital funding to early-career scientists whose bold ...
braincanada.ca
October 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
amvoronova.bsky.social
Thank you again for this recognition and for supporting Canada’s future! Cc @wchriuofa.bsky.social @ualberta.bsky.social
killamtrusts.bsky.social Killam Trusts - Fiducies Killam @killamtrusts.bsky.social · Sep 18
Dr. Anastassia Voronova, a Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry researcher at the U of A, receives the Killam Accelerator Research Award for the outstanding promise demonstrated by a combination of research output and impact bit.ly/4nGwmyc @ualberta.bsky.social @amvoronova.bsky.social #researchexcellence
Dr. Anastassia Voronova Wins The Killam Accelerator Research Award!
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September 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
amvoronova.bsky.social
I am elated to be selected as the @killamtrusts.bsky.social Research Accelerator Awardee! Grateful to my trainees and mentors with whom I share this honour. Looking forward to advancing neural stem cell research. CC @stemcellnetwork.ca @canacn.bsky.social

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Past Award Winners
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July 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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simmondlab.bsky.social
One of the major partners supporting our world-class reserachers in the Department fo Cell Biology
@ualberta.bsky.social
is the Women's Children's Health Reserach Institute
@wchriuofa.bsky.social
See how in their 2024-2025 annual report. #WCHRIAR2025
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Lighting the Way | 2024-2025 Annual Report
Research not only saves lives, it ignites hope. While true transformation requires both patience and vision, each breakthrough brings us closer to our goal.
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June 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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wchriuofa.bsky.social
Research not only saves lives, it ignites hope. Through continual innovation, WCHRI researchers are illuminating the path toward a healthier future for women and children.

We are lighting the way!

Read more in our 2024-2025 annual report:

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#WCHRIAR2025
Lighting the Way | 2024-2025 Annual Report
Research not only saves lives, it ignites hope. While true transformation requires both patience and vision, each breakthrough brings us closer to our goal.
ar.wchri.org
June 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
amvoronova.bsky.social
My lab is very grateful to receive funding from the @stemcellnetwork.ca for remyelination and regeneration drug development program to #endMS! Enormous gratitude to Women and Children's Health Research Institute & UAlberta Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences for matching funds.
June 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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uhnresearch.ca
UHN marks the passing of Dr. James Till, whose work with Dr. Ernest McCulloch first demonstrated the existence of blood-forming stem cells in 1961 at Ontario Cancer Institute, now Princess Margaret Cancer Centre.

His work has helped launch the field of #stemcell science.
May 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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tarazupancic.bsky.social
If you are unable to vote in person, here is the link to apply to vote by mail. It takes 5 minutes but you have to do it ASAP to get the package in time.
Apply to vote by mail
Apply to vote by mail.
www.elections.ca
March 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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pouladilab.bsky.social
UBC’s Dept of Medical Genetics is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Life Sciences Institute.

If you’re interested in joining a strong research community in Vancouver, check out the job posting: medgen.med.ubc.ca/assistant-pr...

Please share with anyone who might be a great fit!
Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) | Department of Medical Genetics | Life Sciences Institute (LSI) - Department of Medical Genetics
The Department of Medical Genetics, in collaboration with the Life Sciences Institute (LSI), invites applications for a full-time faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor, tenure track with...
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March 4, 2025 at 2:01 AM
amvoronova.bsky.social
Our review in J. Neurochem on how neurons regulate neural stem cell fates is live! The paper was led by our talented PhD student @dittmannwith2ns.bsky.social. This review was written as part of my 2024 ISN Young Scientist Lectureship Award onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Regulation of neural stem cells by innervating neurons
To “build” the brain, neural stem and precursor cells (NPCs) first proliferate, and then differentiate into neurons and glia (astrocytes and oligodendrocytes) in a strict spatiotemporal manner. “Main....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
amvoronova.bsky.social
Fellow PIs: I noticed new students are not familiar with Microsoft Office programs as they grew up using ChromeBooks and not PCs. Are there free resources/courses to suggest to these students? I am not interested in using Google docs/sheets for data/writing as they lack many features
January 3, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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franklandlab.bsky.social
Just bumping this up for those who may have missed earlier announcements-- we have a new PI position in the Neuroscience & Mental Health program here at SickKids. Neural and glial mechanisms in cognition.
Scientist/Senior Scientist – Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto – Canadian Association for Neuroscience
can-acn.org
December 27, 2024 at 6:02 PM
amvoronova.bsky.social
Happy to have collaborated with Dr. Maria Cecilia Angulo’s lab on this important project!
December 21, 2024 at 10:37 PM
amvoronova.bsky.social
When you think you came up with a new cool idea to test in mammalian system, revisiting Drosophila literature never fails to discover it’s already been done in principle! Fly folks are always ahead of everyone 👏
December 19, 2024 at 7:01 PM
amvoronova.bsky.social
While evaluating the concluding year, I realized it was grant-heavy: 12 grants submitted in 12 months! Two more are in development but slated for submission in early 2025. In 2025 I look forward to skewing the life-work balance towards life while going back to enjoying writing/editing manuscripts ☺️
December 15, 2024 at 10:54 PM
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isdb.bsky.social
Hello my lovely developmental biologists, The International Society for Developmental Biology is here with y'all in this #BlueSky. If you follow us on Twitter (we refuse to call it X), please drop us a follow here! Let's connect! #DevelopmentalBiology #cellbiology
November 15, 2024 at 8:12 PM
amvoronova.bsky.social
Very pleased with my Canada Research Chair award renewal. Looking forward to pushing the boundaries of stem cell based neurological disease modelling and advancing stem cell-mediated brain regeneration! www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/media-medias...
Fall 2024 Recipients (cycle 2023-2)
Canada Research Chairs program will support
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November 15, 2024 at 1:01 AM
amvoronova.bsky.social
Good news day: our Japan-Canada joint symposium on "Myelin in neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration" with Drs. Shernaz Bamji, Norihisa Bizen and Nobuhiko Ohno was selected for Canadian Association for Neuroscience 2024 meeting! Looking forward to visiting beautiful Vancouver in May.
January 23, 2024 at 12:50 AM
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jeffgreene.bsky.social
Well, this is pretty neat. Sage has a tool to see how often your work has been cited in policy documents. 32 times for me, which is 32 more than I knew about. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Has your research influenced policy? Use this free tool to check
Sage Policy Profiles scans a database of 10 million documents to show researchers where their papers have been cited. Sage Policy Profiles scans a database of 10 million documents to show researchers ...
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December 24, 2023 at 9:25 PM
amvoronova.bsky.social
#DepecheMode concert was unadulterated joy and effervescent fun! Pleased they share a fascination for #NeuralCrest derived tissues 😁
November 22, 2023 at 1:57 PM