Awards & Distinctions

Yves De Koninck wins the Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering

2018-05-02

Congratulations to Yves De Koninck, who has won, with a team of colleagues from the CERVO Brain Research Centre and the Centre d'optique, photonique et laser (COPL), a prestigious prize for interdisciplinary research, given by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Brockhouse prize. The winning team includes Daniel Côté, Yves De Koninck, Michel Piché, Younès Messaddeq, Benoit Gosselin and Réal Vallée. It is rewarded for its innovative to understanding brain function through the development of new technologies that leverage the expertise of...

Yves De Koninck and Rob Bonin honoured at the Canadian Pain Society Meeting

2017-06-02

The Canadian Pain Society highlighted the research accomplishments of Yves De Koninck and Robert Bonin, a YDK lab alumnus and professor at University of Toronto, at their annual meeting, which took place May 23-26 in Halifax. Congratulations to Professor De Koninck, who received the Distinguished Career Award, and to Professor Bonin, who received the Early Career Investigator Pain Research Grant.

Congratulations to Isabel Plasencia who wins a prize at the Pain Talks!

2017-05-15

Congratulations to Isabel Plasencia who won the second prize for presentation at the second edition of the Pain Talks organised by the Quebec Network of Junior Pain Investigators. The event took place April 28 at McGill's Thomson House. Isabel's presentation was titled " Painful disinhibition".

Knitting neurons - in the top 10 discoveries of 2016 for Québec Science

2017-01-22

A discovery made in collaboration with Yves De Koninck of the Neurophotonics Centre has been listed as one of the top 10 discoveries of 2016 by Québec Science, and is a candidate for the magazine's people's choice award for discovery of the year. This discovery, a collaboration between neuroscientists and physicists, offers hope for repair of nerve connections, and even a way to create new ones.

Learn more about this discovey in the Québec Science magazine, and vote for this discovery here: ...

Yves De Koninck will receive the Distinguished Career Award from the Canadian Pain Society

2016-12-09

The director of the Neurophotonics Centre, Yves De Koninck, will receive the Canadian Pain Society's 2017 Distinguished Career Award. This award recognizes Dr. De Koninck's longstanding contributions to pain research.
The award will be given at the next Canadian Pain Society meeting, in May 2017 in Halifax.

http://www.canadianpainsociety.ca/?page=AwardsGrant

Yves De Koninck recevra le prix de la carrière distinguée de la Société canadienne de la douleur

2016-12-09

Bravo à Yves De Koninck, qui recevra le prix de la Carrière distinguée 2017 de la Société canadienne de la douleur. Ce prix reconnait les contributions de longue date du professeur De Koninck en recherche sur la douleur.
Le prix lui sera remis au Congrès de la Société canadienne de la douleur en mai à Halifax.

http://www.canadianpainsociety.ca/?page=AwardsGrant

Yves De Koninck appointed to the Royal Society of Canada

2015-09-14

Yves De Koninck was recently appointed to the Royal Society of Canada for "seminal contributions to understanding how neurons communicate at the cellular and molecular levels, in normal and pathological pain. Equally ground-breaking are his contributions to developing novel photonics technologies to push the frontiers of neuroscience".

View the Royal Society of Canada - Class of 2015 full listing.

Congratulations!

Dr. Rob Bonin Appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto

2015-08-14

Rob Bonin has been appointed Assistant Professor at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, effective August 1, 2015.

Read more about his appointment on the University of Toronto website.

Congratulation Rob!

Yves De Koninck receives an honorary doctorate from the Université de Montréal

2015-07-06

Yves De Koninck was awarded an honoris causa doctorate from the Université de Montréal for his exceptional contributions to research in neuroscience, and specifically in research to relieve pain. The rector of the Université de Montréal highlighted Dr. De Koninck's work:

Dr. Yves De Koninck, who we are honoring today, has demonstrated in a remarkable manner the importance of scientific collaboration. To bring together mental health researchers and physicists specialising in optics, photonics and lasers, you had to be a visionnary. This collaboration has given...

Yves De Koninck named Scientific Director of the CIUSS de la Capitale Nationale

2015-06-25

Dr. Yves De Koninck has been named Director of Research of the Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux (CIUSSS) de la Capitale-Nationale. For more information, read the Press release.

Yves De Koninck laboratory