Shernaz Bamji

Dr. Shernaz Bamji is associate director of the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health and a professor in the Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences at the University of British Columbia. She is also the current president of the Canadian Association for Neuroscience.

Dr. Bamji has a long-standing interest in understanding the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying neural connectivity and synaptic plasticity. Her work has provided valuable information about fundamental mechanisms underlying learning and memory, as well as how these processes are perturbed in diseased states.