Born in Winnipeg in 1941, the late Dr. Winocur completed his BA and MA at the University of Manitoba before completing his Ph.D. at the University of Waterloo. He returned to the Prairies, where he was an Assistant and then Associate Professor at the University of Saskatchewan, before returning to Ontario to take a position as Professor at Trent University, and later at the University of Toronto. Dr. Winocur joined the RRI as a Senior Scientist in 1991, where he later served as Acting Director and Vice President of research at Baycrest. He was also the Scientific Director of the Alzheimer Society of Canada from 2001-2003. Dr. Winocur’s research, much of it carried out with his close collaborator and friend Dr. Morris Moscovitch, has significantly influenced scientists’ views of how the brain encodes, consolidates and retrieves memories. He has been bestowed many awards, including the Donald O. Hebb Distinguished Contribution Award in 2017, in recognition of his substantial career, which included advancing our understanding of the neural bases of memory and confirming the adverse effects of chemotherapeutic drugs on cognitive function in cancer patients (“chemo brain”).