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May 2021 Award Winners

By June 1, 2021December 1st, 2023No Comments

Dr. Florian Kuchenbauer (pictured) won Proteona’s Single Cell Multiomics Grant for multiple myeloma,
which includes $50,000 USD in Proteona’s ESCAPE™ multi-omic single cell analysis services to better
understand how and why highly complex tumours respond to new and existing therapies.

Grants

Winner
Grant
Link to Article
Dr. Florian Kuchenbauer
Single Cell Multiomics Grant
Dr. Hugh Kim
NCOHR New Frontier Seed Grant
Dr. Kevin Hay
International Myeloma Society Grant
Dr. Peter Stirling
France Canada Research Fund

Awards

Winner
Award
Link to Article
Dr. Connie Eaves
Royal Society Fellowship
Dr. Martha Ignaszewski
Bradshaw Audience Choice Award – Innovators’ Challenge
Dr. Michael Cox
Killam Teaching Prize
Dr. Nadine Caron
Canadian Cancer Society Inclusive Excellence Prize
Dr. Olusegun Oyedele
Killam Teaching Prize

Fellowships

Winner
Fellowship
Supervisor
Dr. Jen Nguyen
Killam Award Fellowship

Scholarships

Winner
Scholarship
Supervisor
Charu Sankaran
UBC Faculty of Medicine Summer Student Research Program Scholarship
Lauren Wilkinson
BioCanRx Summer Studentship
Lorenzo Lindo
Master’s Award: Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship
Louis-Alexandre Fournier
Doctoral Award: Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarships
Natasha Orr
Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
Olga Vishnyakova
CIHR Summer Program in Aging