Awards & Accomplishments

Celebrating our MD PhD Graduates

MD PhD Grads
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2024 MD PhD Graduates

2024 MD PhD Graduates

  • Gavin Elias
  • Danielle Jeong
  • Jillian Macklin
  • Sivakami Meena Mylvaganam
  • Kramay Vipulbhai Patel
  • Anum Rahman
  • Glenn Franklin Wilson Walpole

Past MD PhD Graduates

2023 MD PhD Graduates

  • Michael Atkins - Internal Medicine, Memorial University
  • Paymon Azizi - Internal Medicine, Western
  • Irene Harmsen - Neurosurgery, University of Alberta
  • Sachin Kumar - Paediatrics, Harvard
  • Sydney McQueen - Neurosurgery, University of Toronto
  • Sara Mirali - Dermatology, University of Toronto
  • Tim Rappon - Internal Medicine, McMaster
  • Brian Tsang - Diagnostic Radiology Ottawa U

2022 MD PhD Graduates

  • Tina Binesh Marvasti – Internal Medicine, University of Toronto
  • Alainna Jamal – Internal Medicine, University of Toronto
  • Nicholas Light – Internal Medicine, University of Toronto
  • Ben Ouyang – Internal Medicine Physician Scientist Track, Harvard
  • Ayesh Seneviratre – Internal Medicine, Western
  • Ho Yee Wan – Plastic Surgery, University of Toronto
  • Siraj Zahr – Anesthesiology, University of Toronto

2021 MD PhD Graduates

  • Karan (Josh) Abraham - Pediatrics, Harvard, Boston Children's Hospital
  • MatthewbCarr - Plastic Surgery, UBC
  • Howell Nicholas Araki, Internal Medicine, University of Toronto
  • Shrey Sindhwani - Internal Medicine, University of Toronto    
  • John Soleas - Internal Medicine, Aaberta 
  • Patrick Steadman - Neurology, University of Toronto

2020 MD PhD Graduates

  • Natasha Lane - Internal Medicine, UBC
  • Ayan Dey - Psychiatry, Clinician Scientist Stream, University of Toronto
  • Kyle Eastwood - Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie
  • Kim Jieun - Orthopaedic Surgery
  • Amanda (Amy) Farah Khan - Radiation Oncology, Calgary
  • Curtis Woodford - Vascular Surgery, UC San Francisco
  • Richard (You) Wu - Internal Medicine, University of Toronto

2019 MD PhD Graduates

  • Robyn Elphinstone - Paediatrics – physician scientist stream, University of Toronto
  • Jonathan Fuller
  • Florence Wu - Internal Medicine, UBC
  • Kirill Zaslavsky - Opthalmology, University of Toronto

2018 MD PhD Graduates

  • Ashish Deshwar - Medical Genetics and Genomics, University of Toronto
  • Ilya Mukovozov - Columbia Dermatology, University of British
  • Enoch Ng - Psychiatry, University of Toronto
  • Jennie Pouget - Psychiatry, University of Toronto
  • Lianne Rotin - Internal Medicine, University of Toronto
  • Nardin Samuel - Neurosurgery, University of Toronto
  • Linda Vi - Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Toronto
  • Kevin Wang - Internal Medicine, University of Toronto

2017 MD PhD Graduates

  • Susan Armstrong (Anatomical Pathology, University of Toronto)
  • Robert Vanner (Internal Medicine, University of Toronto)
  • Jared Wilcox (Neurosurgery, McGill)

Celebrating our Mid-Point Students

These are current MD/PhD students receiving special recognition for having completed the first four years of the MD/PhD Program--they are part way through their MD studies, and part way through their PhD, hence "MP" students!

2024 Mid-Point Students
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2024 Mid-Point Students

2024 Mid-Point Students

  • Emerson Grabke
  • Yun Kim
  • Robert Lao
  • Muhammad Maaz
  • Mathepan Mahendralingam
  • Safa Majeed
  • Vienna Mazzoli

Past Mid-Point Students

2023 Mid-Point Students

  • Andrew Mazzanti
  • Camilla Giovino
  • Hillary Lia
  • Jennifer Kao
  • Mitch de Snoo
  • Pamela Psarianos
  • Bill Shi

2022 Mid-Point Students

  • Sara Ahmed
  • Steven Botts
  • Anders Erickson
  • Alex Florescu
  • Erik Friesen
  • Lia Huo
  • Sujay Nagaraj
  • Mohammad Asadi Lari (in memory)

2021 Mid-Point Students

  • Bahar Behrouzi Homa
  • Alex Dhaliwal
  • Megan Drupals
  • Vinyas Harish
  • Natalie Landon-Brace
  • Jillian Macklin
  • Felipe Morgado
  • Prajay Shah
  • Matthaeus Ware
  • Andy Zeng

Awards

2024-25 Award Winners

  • Falan BennettSickKids Restracomp Scholarship
  • Allysia Chin - CGS-M
  • Armaan FallahiYuet Ngor Wong Award; CIHR Canada Graduate Scholarships - Masters award
  • Nicholas Garrido - Banting & Best Diabetes Centre-Novo Nordisk Studentships; Ontario Graduate Scholarship
  • Julian GilmoreNSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships - Doctoral award; SickKids Restracomp Scholarship (on hold)
  • Syed Shahan Haider - The Canada Life Assurance Company Studentships
  • Anita Hu - Canada Graduate Scholarships - Masters award
  • Richard Huang - Ontario Graduate Scholarship
  • Ryu Won (Jasmine) KangOntario Graduate Scholarship
  • Diane (Daeun) Kim NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships - Masters award
  • Hillary LiaCIHR Canada Graduate Scholarships - Doctoral award
  • Gemma PostillAI4PH award; Vanier scholarship
  • Autumn Rennie - SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarships - Doctoral award
  • Matthaeus Ware - Canadian Medical Hall of Fame award
  • Erica Wennberg - CIHR Vanier scholarship
  • Angela Zhou - Ontario Graduate Scholarship

2023-24 Award Winners

  • Sara Ahmed - Adel S. Sedra Distinguished Graduate Award
  • Bahar Behrouzi Homa - CIHR Canadian Graduate Student - Doctoral award
  • Anders Erickson - CIHR Canadian Graduate Student - Doctoral award
  • Gilbert Bryan Gascon - CIHR Vanier; Ontario Graduate Student award; SickKids Restracomp Scholarship
  • Julian Gilmore - SickKids Restracomp Scholarship
  • Ryan Karimi - CIHR Canadian Graduate Student-Masters award
  • Yun Kim - CIHR Vanier
  • Robert Lao - CIHR Vanier
  • Hillary Lia - CIHR Canadian Graduate Student - Doctoral award
  • Muhammad Maaz - CIHR Vanier
  • Mathepan Mahendralingam - CIHR Vanier
  • Vienna Mazzoli - CIHR Canadian Graduate Student - Doctoral award
  • Gemma Postill - CIHR Canadian Graduate Student-Masters award
  • Matthaeus Ware - SickKids Restracomp Scholarship
  • Erica Wennberg - SickKids Restracomp Scholarship
  • Angela Zhou - Ontario Graduate Student award

2022-23 Award Winners

  • Megan Drupals - Restracomp
  • Camilla Giovino – Ontario Graduate Scholarship
  • Vinyas Harish - Vector Institute Award,  DLSPH Data Science Interdisciplinary Research Cluster Award
  • Yun Kim – CIHR Vanier Award
  • Robert Lao - OGS, GLSE Award Hilda and William Courtney CLAYTON Paediatric Research Fund
  • Muhammad Maaz – NSERC CGS-M
  • Mathepan Mahendralingham - Restracomp and Ontario Graduate Scholarships
  • Vienna Mazzoli – CIHR CGS-M
  • Sydney McQueen - Alan R. Hudson Neurosurgery Clinical Clerk Achievement Award, The OMA Student Achievement Award, OMSA Student Recognition Award
  • Kramay Patel - Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Award for Medical Students

2021-22 Award Winners

  • Aram Abbasian – CIHR CGS-D
  • Bahar Behrozi – CIHR CGS-D, Cardiometabolic Research Award from the Canadian Cardiovascular Society
  • Ben Ouyang - Lucille Williams Award in Cancer Research, 2022; Medicine Clinical Clerkship Performance Award for Internal Medicine Rotation 2021; Golden Stethoscope Award, 2021
  • Steven Botts – CIHR CGS-D
  • Robert D’Cruz – ASPN Trainee Award 2021, ASN 2021 Oral Presentation and 5 minute pitch competition & PAS 2022 Oral Presentation and SPR MD/PhD Award Recipient
  • Mitch De Snoo – CIHR Vanier Award
  • Megan Drupals – Restracomp Award
  • Anders Erickson – Ontario Graduate Scholarship and 1st Prize, McMurrich E-Poster Presentation at the U of T Department of Surgery Gallie Day conference.
  • Alexandra Florescu – CIHR Vanier Award
  • Julian Gilmore - Michael Gregg Scholarship in recognition of research in the area of HIV/AIDS during premedical studies and personal qualities of compassion and human understanding
  • Camilla Giovino – Ontario Graduate Scholarship
  • Vinyas Harish – UTAA Graduate Scholar by the University of Toronto Alumni Association, Schwartz Reisman Graduate Fellowship & CIHR CGS-D
  • Irene Harmsen – 2022 Mary L. Cassidy Award for exceptional contributions to the MD program
  • Danielle Jeong - Dr. Joe A Connolly Memorial Award, Baden HAVARD Endowment Fund & K.M. HUNTER Charitable Foundation Graduate Awards
  • Jennifer Kao – SickKids Restracomp & CIHR Vanier
  • Ryan Karimi - CIHR CGS-M
  • Yun Kim – 2021 Faculty of Medicine Graduate and Life Sciences Education MES; Travel award to attend the International Society for Stem Cell Research Annual Meeting 2022 to present: Kim YK, Ramalho-Santos MF (2022). Absolute Scaling of Single-Cell Transcriptomes Reveals Pervasive Hypertranscription in Adult Stem and Progenitor Cells. Oral
  • presentation at the International Society for Stem Cell Research Annual Meeting 2022. San Francisco, California
  • Nicholas Light - MAA Dr. Richard Edwards (5T7) Family Student Awards in Genetics
  • Ethan Malkin – CIHR CGS-D
  • Swapna Mylvaganam – Youth Media Alliance Award of Excellence
  • Sujay Nagaraj – CIHR Vanier Award, SickKids Restracomp Award
  • Kramay Patel – UTAA Graduate Scholar, an Adel Sedra Award Finalist
  • Maneesha Rajora - Women in Molecular Imaging Network Scholar Award
  • Prajay Shah won the 2021 Ruggles Innovation Award, Sir James
  • Lougheed Award of Distinction 2022, U of T Photonics Innovation Centre’s Research Expansion Grant 2021
  • Runjie (Bill) Shi – Ontario Graduate Scholarship
  • Brian Tsang - MAA Dr. Richard Edwards Award
  • Glenn Walpole - Dr. Dina Gordon Malkin Prize for Medical Research, University of Toronto (Medical Student Research Day, 2020); Ontario Cell Biology Symposium, winner of top oral presentation: Cell biology of infection and immunity
  • Matthaeus Ware received the Temerty Award for Excellence in Professional Values
  • Angela Zhou – Catharine Whiteside Award for Top Ranked incoming MD/PhD student

2020-21 Award Winners

  • Josh Abraham - Department of Medicine, Medicine Clinical Clerkship Performance Awards for Internal Medicine rotation
  • Bahar Behrozi - CANHEART SPOR Graduate Funding Award
  • Steven Botts - Heart & Stroke/Richard Lewar Centre of Excellence HSBC Future Research Leaders Internship; QEII/Heart & Stroke Foundation of Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology
  • Alexandra Florescu – CIHR CGS-M
  • Erik Friesen - CIHR CGS-D
  • Vinyas Harish – CIHR CGS-M
  • Nicholas Howell - Department of Medicine, Medicine Clinical Clerkship Performance Awards for Internal Medicine rotation
  • Danielle Jeong - Peterborough K.M. HUNTER Charitable Foundation Graduate Award, Faculty of Medicine; Sick Kids Restracomp
  • Jennifer Kao - Sick Kids Restracomp
  • Yun Kim – 2020 Dean Catherine Whiteside Scholarship for Clinician Scientists
  • Hannah Kozlowski – Ruggles Innovation Award for her project, Developing a sensitive, point of care platform for diagnosing COVID-19.
  • Sachin Kumar - Adel Sedra Distinguished Graduate Award (part of the Awards of Excellence Program)
  • Robert Lao - Alex G. Climans Scholarship
  • Jillian Macklin – CIHR Vanier
  • Felipe Morgado – 2020 Autism Scholars Award
  • Kramay Patel - Dr. Joe A. Connolly Memorial Award, Faculty of Medicine; CIHR Vanier
  • Runjie (Bill) Shi – CIHR CGS-M
  • Patrick Steadman - 2020 Brain Star Award winner from the CAN-ACN
  • Brian Tsang - MAA Dr. Richard Edwards Award
  • Glenn Walpole - Dr. Dina Gordon Malkin Prize for Medical Research, University of Toronto (Medical Student Research Day, 2020); Ontario Cell Biology Symposium, winner of top oral presentation: Cell biology of infection and immunity 
  • Matthaeus Ware – CIHR CGS-D, Adel S. Sedra Distinguished Graduate Award. This is the top graduate award for all students in graduate studies at the University of Toronto

2017-18 Award Winners

  • Sara Mirali is a 2017 recipient of a CIHR Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship (Project Title: Investigating the Role and Therapeutic Potential of Neurolysin in Acute Myeloid Leukemia)
  • K. Josh Abraham is the 2017 recipient of the  Adel S. Sedra Distinguished Graduate Award.
  • Irene Harmsen received a CIHR CGS-M award.
  • Alainna Jamal was awarded the 2017 Mary Cassidy Award, in recognition of outstanding contribution to extracurricular activities in the Faculty of Medicine.
  • Alainna Jamal received a 2017 CIHR Vanier Award.
  • Amanda Khan is a 2017 recipient of the Mary Cassidy Award, in recognition of outstanding contribution to extra-curricular activities in the Faculty of Medicine.
  • Amanda Khan is a 2017 recipient of the Dr. Robert and Sharon Francis Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Award.
  • Sydney McQueen was awarded the Mary Cassidy Award, in recognition of outstanding contribution to extra-curricular activities in the Faculty of Medicine.
  • Hannah Kozlowski was awarded the Mildred Brown Memorial Award.
  • Natalie Landon-Brace was awarded the Dean Catherine Whiteside Scholarship for Clinician Scientists.
  • Sean Nestor was awarded the Siminovitch-Salter Award for his PhD Thesis.
  • Maneesha Rajora is the 2017 recipient of the Mr. Robert and Ms. Francine Ruggles Innovation Award for her outstanding research productivity and innovation.
  • Ayesh Seneviratne has been awarded a three year CIHR Doctoral Research Award for his project, "Role of Tafazzin in Hematopoiesis and Leukemogenesis."
  • Patrick Steadman was awarded 'Graduate Scholar' by the University of Toronto Alumni Association.
  • Glenn Walpole received an OGS award.
  • Sydney McQueen has been awarded a CSCI-CITAC Poster Award.

2016-17 Award Winners

  • K. Josh Abraham is the 2016 recipient of the Mr. Robert and Ms. Francine Ruggles Innovation Award for his outstanding research productivity and innovation.
  • K. Josh Abraham earned 1st place prize for top basic science abstract selected for oral presentation at UME's 2016 Medical School Research Day and the 1st place poster prize at Lab Medicine and Pathobiology (LMP) Graduate Research Conference, Toronto, ON.
  • Caitlin Chrystoja is the recipient of a 2016 CIHR Vanier Aaward.
  • Robert Civitarese received a 2017-17 Ontario Graduate Scholarship.
  • Ayan Dey received the 2016 Dr. Harvey Moldofsky Scholarship ifor merit in psychiatric/neuroscience research. He also received the Heart and Stroke Foundation Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery 2016 Trainee Award for the project "Functional Neuroimaging of vascular cognitive impairment due to Cerebral Small Vessel Disease.”
  • Nicholas Howell received the 2016 Nishant J. Fozdar Memorial Award by the Faculty of Medicine.
  • Amanda (Amy) Khan is the 2016 recipient of the Ankle Award, awarded to a medical student who has completed a project that represents creative, or “outside the box” thinking with an outcome or outcomes related to improved health systems, patient care, research results or new ways of completing tasks that enhance medical practice, for her project, "Defining the Safe Limits of Force in Laparoscopic Surgery."
  • Amanda (Amy) Khan was awarded the 2016 Perioperative Services Innovation Grant from the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.
  • Amanda (Amy) Khan was selected as one of Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100 by the Women’s Executive Network (WXN).
  • Hannah Kozlowski was awarded the inauguaral Dean Catherine Whiteside Scholarship for Clinician Scientists.
  • Sachin Kumar received the Michael Gregg Memorial Award through the UME.
  • Natasha Lane was awarded the 2016 Ted Goldberg Award for Academic Excellence and Promise in Health Services Research.
  • Natasha Lane was awarded 1st Place in Oral Presentation Competition and 2nd Place in Poster Competition at the Four City Geriatric Research Day.
  • Chris McFaul received an NSERC CGS-M.
  • Sydney McQueen received "Best Poster Award" at the Medical Student Research Day (MSRD) at the University of Toronto.
  • Ben Ouyang received a CIHR Vanier and a Cecil Yip Doctoral Research Award.
  • Siraj Zahr received a CIHR CGS-M award, and a poster prize at Medicine By Design 2016 Inaugural Symposium.

2015-16 Award Winners

  • K. Josh Abraham was recognized as the student with highest academic standing in his department with the 2015 Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology (LMP) Graduate award.
  • Brian Ballios has been selected as a recipient of the 2015 Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award.
  • Caitlin Chrystoja was awarded the The Canadian Journal of Surgery Editor’s Choice Award for ranking as 1 of the 3 best surgery abstracts among 270 submissions from surgery residents at the Canadian Surgery Forum. She also received The Canadian Association of General Surgeons (CAGS) Science Award at the Canadian Surgery Forum in recognition of submitting 1 of the 2 best surgery abstracts among 270 submissions from general surgery residents at the national conference.
  • Ayan Dey was awarded the 2015 Finkler Graduate Student Fellowship for his research "functional pathoconnectomics of Cerebral Small Vessel Disease: a cognitive neuroscience based approach to understanding variability in vascular cognitive impairment." 
  • Kyle Eastwood received a 2015 CIHR Vanier Award for his research, "Development and Efficacy of Procedure Specific Instruments for Neurosurgery."
  • Kyle Eastwood was the 2015 recipient of the Mr. Robert and Ms. Francine Ruggles Innovation Award for his outstanding research productivity and innovation.
  • Carlyn Figueiredo received a 2015 CIHR Vanier Award for his research, "Gold nanoparticles with surface enhanced Raman scattering capability for the detection and treatment of glioblastoma tumours."
  • Nicholas Howell  received a 2015 CIHR Vanier Award for his research, " What are the effects and economic impacts of walkable neighbourhood design on type 2 diabetes care?"
  • Amanda (Amy) Khan received a 2015 CIHR Vanier Award for her research, " The Development of Anthropomorphic Realistic Model "Phantoms" for Surgical and Medical Education."
  • Patrick McVeigh is the 2015 recipient of the Ankle Award, awarded to a medical student who has completed a project that represents creative, or “outside the box” thinking with an outcome or outcomes related to improved health systems, patient care, research results or new ways of completing tasks that enhance medical practice.
  • Maneesha Rojora received a 2015 CIHR Vanier Award for her research, "Delivery of traceable, multifunctional, biomimetic nanoparticles to the brain to treat Alzheimer's disease."
  • Lianne Rotin is a 2015 recipient of a CIHR Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship for her project titled, "Investigating ibrutinib's off-target activity against acute myeloid leukemia cells."
  • Graeme Schwindt received the Hendry Memorial Scholarship and won the Cody Silver Medal for placing second overall in the graduating MD class of 2015.
  • Shrey Sindhwani received a 2015 Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering Graduate Student EndowmentFund (GSEF) Scholarship Award and a Wildcat Voyager Scholarship.
  • Patrick Steadman received a 2015 CIHR Vanier Award for his research, " Investigating Memory Neuronal Networks For Regulating Behaviour In Healthy And Disease States."
  • Ho Yee Wan received a 2015 CIHR Vanier Award for his research, "Microvascular alterations after experimental subarachnoid hemorrhage."

2014-15 Award Winners

  • Ayan Dey received the Canadian Partnership in Stroke Recovery Trainee Award  in 2013/2014 for his research "Investigating the phenotypic heterogeneity of Cerebral Small Vessel Disease using multimodal functional neuroimaging." 
  • Robyn Elphinstone received a 2014 CIHR Vanier Award for her research “‘Pharmed’ Red Blood Cells as Novel Therapeutics for Life Threatening-Infections”.
  • Natasha Lane is a 2014 CIHR Vanier Award recipient for her research “How should family physicians be paid to reduce socioeconomic disparities in heart failure outcomes?”
  • Jennie Pouget was a 2014 Weston Fellow, travelling to the Netherlands to work on her project, "Using Big Genetic Data to Identify Immune Targets that will Advance Treatment Development in Schizophrenia."
  • Jennie Pouget was also awarded a 2014-15 Fulbright Canadian Students Scholarship for her research into the biological underpinnings of mental health.
  • Nardin Samuel received a 2014 CIHR Vanier Award for her research “Epigenetic analysis of Li-Fraumeni Syndrome cancers for identification of novel mechanisms of tumorigenesis in cancer susceptibility.”
  • Shrey Sindhwani is a 2014 CIHR Vanier Award recipient for his research “Nanomaterial based enrichment of blood proteins for cancer detection and monitoring.”
  • You (Richard) Wu received a 2014 CIHR Vanier Award for his research “Characterizing the effects of human milk oligosaccharides and prebiotics on the intestinal epithelial barrier in the setting of Necrotizing Enterocolitis.”
  • Linda Vi is the 2014 recipient of the Mr. Robert and Ms. Francine Ruggles Innovation Award for his outstanding research productivity and innovation.

2013-14 Award Winners

  • Kirill Zaslavsky is the recipient of a 2013 CIHR Vanier Award for his research “Dissecting molecular phenotypes of SHANK2 mutations using patient-specific neurons from an autistic patient”
  • Jonathan Fuller was awarded a CIHR Vanier Award in 2013 for his research “A Philosophical Analysis of the Current Chronic Disease Model and Implications for the Care of Complex Older Patients”.  Jonathon also received an inaugural Weston Fellowship to spend one year studying abroad.
  • Jieun Kim received a 2013 CIHR Vanier Award for her research “Engineering interactions between the macrophage polarization and human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiac tissue to develop an in vitro myocardial infarction model to understand the early disease progression”
  • Enoch Ng is the recipient of a 2013 CIHR Banting and Best Canada Graduate Scholarship for his research “Targeting Neuronal Calcium Sensor-1 to treat cognitive deficits in schizophrenia”
  • Natasha Lane won First Prize for her poster “Does socioeconomic status moderate the effect of increasing chronic disease burden on three-year survival in a population-based cohort?” at the Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR) conference.  in May, 2014; a CIHR Institute Community Support Travel Award (May 2013), a UofT School of Graduate Studies Conference Grant (June 2013), and 2nd place poster prize in Health Services Research category at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME) Research Day (May 2013) for her poster entitled “An Evaluation Framework for Complex Infection Control Interventions in Low-Resource Settings.”  Natasha is also Co-Principal Investigator on a $10,000 grant (Dec. 2012 – Dec. 2013) from the Health System Performance Research Network entitled “Activities of Care Transition Interventions: A Realist Review”
  • Robin Elphintone received the Chinese-Canadian Medical Society (Ontario) Award in Anatomy, and an ASTMH 2013 Annual Meeting Travel Award.
  • Nardin Samuel won a “Scholar-in-Training Award” from the American Association for Cancer Research to attend an upcoming conference.
  • Xin (Kevin) Wang is the 2013 recipient of the Mr. Robert and Ms. Francine Ruggles Innovation Award for his outstanding research productivity and innovation.

2012-13 Award Winners

  • Susan Armstrong received the Canadian Critical Care Forum 2012 Garner King Award, 1st Place – Trainee Oral presentation in October.  Susan also won an award for Best Oral Presentation at the Canadian National Medical Student Research Symposium in June in Winnipeg.
  • Jennie Pouget has been awarded a Brain Canada Training Award in 2013 for her project entitled “Role of variants of the translocator protein (TSPO) gene in schizophrenia and antipsychotic-induced weight gain”.  She has also received an American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Travel Award to attend the International Summer School on Immunogenetics in Stintino, Italy (Sept 2013).
  • Ashish Deshwar received a CIHR Vanier Award in 2012 for his project “Characterization of the pro-cardiac activity conferred by Gata5 and Smarcd3b in the zebrafish embryo: an approach to identify novel regulators of cardiac progenitor development
  • Kevin Xin Wang received a CIHR Vanier Award in 2012 for his project, “Identifying driver mutations in childhood medulloblastoma by novel functional genomic approaches”
  • Curtis Woodford received a Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship from CIHR for his project “Enhancing human pluripotent stem cell differentiation to pancreatic progenitors by control of endogenous cell signalling”
  • Ashish Deshwar won the Roman Pakula Award – Awarded to the best acclaimed all around M.Sc. student registered in the department of Molecular Genetics.

2011-12 Award Winners

  • Robert Vanner received a CIHR Vanier Scholarship in 2011 for his research on “Identification and characterization of quiscent brain tumor stem cells”.
  • Florence Wu is a 2011 recipient of a CIHR Vanier Scholarship for her project “Angiopoietin-1 mimetics:  new therapeutic agents for cancer treatment”.
  • Jonathan Fuller, John Zoberman Scholarship in Undergraduate Medical Education (2011), Mary L. Cassidy Award in Undergraduate Medical Education (2011), and CIHR Health Professional Student Research Award (2011)

PhDs Completed

2022-23

Paymon Michael Azizi
Use of Troponin Testing after Non-cardiac Surgery
Supervisor(s):
Graduate Unit: Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
October 2022

Hannah Kozlowski
Strategies for Moving Multi-target Nucleic Acid Assays Towards Clinical Use
Supervisor(s): Prof. Warren Chan
Graduate Unit: Institute of Biomedical Engineering
July 2022

2021-22

Kramay Vipul Patel
Volitional Self-regulation of Individual Neurons in Mnemonic Structures of the Brain
Supervisor(s): Prof. Milos Popovic
Graduate Unit: Institute of Biomedical Engineering
June 2022

Erik Loewen Friesen
Understanding Rural-urban Disparities in Alcohol-related Health Service Use in Ontario, Canada
Supervisor(s): Prof. Paul Kurdyak
Graduate Unit: Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
June 2022

Danielle Hyeyoon Jeong
Understanding the Birth and Life of Mammalian Neural Stem Cells
Supervisor(s): Prof. Freda Miller
Graduate Unit: Institute of Medical Science
June 2022

Swapna Mylabathula
Concussion Public Policy for Elementary and High Schools in Ontario - Assessment of Content, Implementation, and Impact of PPM158
Supervisor(s): Prof. Charles Tator
Graduate Unit: Institute of Medical Science
June 2022

Brian Tsang
Studying the Regulation and Function of Biomolecular Condensates with In vitro Reconstitution

Supervisor(s): Prof. Julie Forman-Kay
Graduate Unit: Department of Biochemistry
September 2021


Irene Harmsen
Use of Magnetoencephalography to Examine Cortical Responses to Deep Brain Stimulation

Supervisor(s): Prof. Andres Lozano Graduate Unit: Institute of Medical Science
September 2021


Sydney Amelia McQueen On Surgeon Stress: An Exploration of Distress and Eustress
Supervisor(s): Prof. Carol-Anne Moulton
Graduate Unit: Institute of Medical Science
August 2021

Sivakami Meena Mylvaganam
Biophysical regulation of endothelial functions by a polarized spectrin cytoskeleton.

Supervisor(s): Prof. Sergio Grinstein
Graduate Unit: Department of Biochemistry
July 2021

Glenn Walpole
Cell Physiology of Innate Immunity and Its Subversion by Intracellular Pathogens

Supervisor(s): Prof. Sergio Grinstein, Prof. John Brumell
Graduate Unit: Department of Biochemistry
July 2021

Sachin Kumar
Molecular Biology of Childhood Brain Tumours
Supervisor(s): Prof. Michael Taylor
Graduate Unit: Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
July 2021

2020-21

Tim Rappon
The Sustainment and Sustainability of Quality Improvement Initiatives for the Health Care of Older Adults

Supervisor(s): Prof. Whitney Berta
Graduate Unit: Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
January 2021