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Dr. Gerlinde Metz is a Professor of Neuroscience and the Bryan Kolb Chair in Neuroscience at the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge. She also is an Adjunct Professor with the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Alberta.

Her research investigates how experiences, such as stress, shape brain plasticity across the lifespan and across generations, and how adverse health outcomes can be prevented or mitigated. Her current collaborative efforts focus on biomarker discovery to identify novel diagnostic and therapeutic targets in conditions such as brain and spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease. Her team is using metabolomic biomarkers to monitor experience-dependent functional recovery within a precision medicine approach.