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The Grant Application Form and Grant Application Guide for the April 30, 2026 application deadline are now available from the Research Grants page.

The results of the April 2024 Grants Competition are available here.

The 2024-2025 Annual Report is available by clicking here.

We would like to congratulate Dr. Ciaran Murphy-Royal, Associate Professor, Dépt. de Neurosciences, Université de Montréal, on the recent publication in the July 10, 2025 issue of Nature Communications. The article entitled A divergent astrocytic response to stress alters activity patterns via distinct mechanisms in male and female mice. This work funded in part by the Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation causally implicate astrocytes in the regulation of orexin neuron firing, behavioural activity patterns, and reveal that astrocytes are primary drivers of stress-induced behavioural change. The full article can be found here.