Andrew Pruszynski

@andpru

Professor, @westernuPandP. Director, COMPERE.ca. Director, @wusmsl. Director, Advanced Neural Circuits Group. Comments my own.

London, Ontario pruszynskilab.com Joined August 2012

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Latest posts 5

Andrew Pruszynski @andpru Nov 4

Dear @SchulichMedDent

Brad Wouters 🇨🇦 @bradwouters Nov 4

Budget 2026 lands tomorrow — “Masters of Our Destiny.” Sovereignty in health research means running trials here. TAHSN cut study activation 448→109 days. That’s the template. The UK just launched a 20,000-patient AI cancer trial. The race is on. @UHN unityhealth.to/2026/11/unity-…
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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru Oct 18

AI discovering historical neural coding arguments is quaint.

Andrew Pruszynski @andpru Oct 17

so basically systems neuroscience

Chris Painter Verified account @ChrisPainterYup Oct 16

Imagine the roles reversed and you found AIs researching “mechanistic interpretability for humans”: Methods to interpret how individual human neurons relate to human behavior and reasoning, specific neurons you could stimulate to steer human behavior, methods to read human minds
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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru Oct 5

Extremely well deserved!

The Nobel Prize Verified account @NobelPrize Oct 5

BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru Oct 1

Happy to announce that I am searching for for a graduate student, starting Fall 2027. If you want to study the neural mechanisms of reaching and grasping, come join us in the rich environment of the Sensorimotor Superlab. For details: pruszynskilab.com/positions.html