⭐A Productive Day for the IMPACTS Lab at the Research NB 2025 Health Research Symposium
Researchers and students had the privilege of meeting Hon. Dr. John Dornan, New Brunswick Minister of Health and Candice Ashley Pollack, Chief Executive Officer at ResearchNB. During the event, we shared updates on our projects and explored how research can inform...
Physical Activity and Mental Health: Successful Defense for PPW Registe
An important milestone has been reached for our colleague Pierre Philippe Wilson Registe, who defended his doctoral thesis on November 7. Entitled «Effet de récence et de cumul d’activités physiques pendant l’adolescence sur l’état de santé au début de l’âge adulte»,...
IMPACTS Lab attends at the 2025 Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP) Conference
From October 15-18 October, some students from the IMPACTS Lab had the opportunity to present their research at the CSEP 2025 Conference in London, Ontario. Here’s an overview of their research contributions in the areas of mobility, aging, and frailty: Jocelyn...
Healthy Heart: Community-Based Exercise Program Earns Pamela Tanguay Award
Pamela Tanguay, a postdoctoral fellow from the Université de Sherbrooke, has received the Canadian Heart Function Alliance Trainee Award valued at $30,000 for her project Healthy Heart 💓. This project aims to implement a community-based exercise program for...
A MITACS Fellowship for Daniel Saucier and his postdoctoral project on patient frailty and mobilization in hospital settings.
Congratulations to Daniel Saucier, postdoctoral fellow at the Centre de formation médicale du Nouveau-Brunswick, recipient of the Mitacs Elevate Fellowship. His research project investigates the impact of an in-hospital mobilization program on frailty in patients with...
MATCH findings presented by Pierre Philippe Wilson Registe at the SCAPPS Annual Conference
Pierre Philippe Wilson REGISTE had the opportunity to present his doctoral research at the Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sport Psychology (SCAPPS) annual conference in Prince Edward Island from October 2–4. Based on data from the MATCH Study, his...
A Scholarships from the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA) for Emily MacDonald
Congratulations to Emily MacDonald on receiving one of the Brain Health Care Master Trainee Scholarships from the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA) Training Program, a prestigious award that supports research on brain health and care for aging...
An excellence scholarship from the Centre de recherche sur le vieillissement awarded to Jasmine Allain.
Jasmine Allain, a master’s student in health sciences research at the Centre de formation médicale du Nouveau-Brunswick, has been awarded the Excellence Scholarship from the Centre de recherche sur le vieillissement as part of the Université de Sherbrooke’s Excellence...
Carson Halliwell receives a grant from Arthritis Society Canada
Congratulations to Carson Halliwell from the Université de Sherbrooke, who has been awarded a $40,000 fellowship award as part of Arthritis Society Canada’s 2025 Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. Under the supervision of Professors Myles O’Brien (FMSS – UdeS) and...
Madeline Shivgulam receives a research award from the Heart & Stroke Foundation.
Madeline Shivgulam has been awarded the 2025–2026 BrightRed Paul and Mary O’Regan Graduate Student Research Award from the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada. This award recognizes emerging researchers who excel in the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular fields....