UVic BRAIN Lab

We're excited to share our lab's article has been published in the Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease! This article presents a qualitative analysis on participants’ experiences in the Kidney Research Scientist Core Education and National Training (KRESCENT) program.

To learn more, click the link in our bio!

The full citation is below💫:

Petula, I. D., Chung, A. F., Knight, J. E., Hartwig, S., Levin, A., & Paterson, T. S. E. (2026). Evaluating the Kidney Research Scientist Core Education and National Training (KRESCENT) Program: A 20-Year Qualitative Thematic Analysis. Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease, 13, 20543581261434652. https://doi.org/10.1177/20543581261434652

We're very pleased to share that Dr. Paterson recently won the 2025 Catalyst Grant!

These CIHR-funded projects use existing data from Canada’s long-term aging study to explore how biological, social and environmental factors influence how we age.

Dr. Paterson's project is entitled "for her project entitled "Modelling the Impacts of Life Course Enrichment and Depletion Factors on Cognitive Aging and Brain Health Trajectories using Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging Data".