Congratulations to Dr. Mónica Romera Hernández (Takei Lab) who has been awarded a MSHRF Research Trainee Award for her proposal entitled “Don't Let ILC3s Take Your Breath Away” and Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Fellowship for her proposal entitled “Discovery of antibodies against challenging membrane protein targets using microencapsulation-assisted rare clone selection”.

Congratulations to Justin White (Stirling Lab) who has been awarded a B.C. Graduate Scholarship for his project entitled "Investigating the role of translesion synthesis polymerases in mutation and chemotherapy resistance".

Congratulations to Tabea Stephan (Hoodless Lab) who won first place for her poster at the 2020 BCRegMed 4th Annual Symposium, presenting her work entitled "Chromatin landscape and transcription factor networks driving human hepatocyte cell fate".

Congratulations to Dr. Fumio Takei (Takei Lab) who has been awarded a 5-year CIHR Project Grant for his proposal entitled “Tissue resident and migratory group 2 innate lymphoid cells in health and disease”. 

Congratulations to Junbum Im (Kuchenbauer Lab) who has been awarded an Elwyn Gregg Memorial Fellowship for his project entitled "O-GlcNAc Transferase Inhibition as a novel treatment strategy for Acute Myeloid Leukemia​". 

Congratulations to Xining (Linda) Yang, (Kuchenbauer Lab) who has been awarded a 2020 Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) Research Trainee award (2020-2023), for her project entitled “Modulating microRNA-193a expression levels as a treatment for acute myeloid leukemia (AML)”.

Congratulations to Dr. Ryan Brinkman on receiving a 5-year NSERC Discovery Grant for his proposal entitled "Automated analysis of high dimensional flow cytometry data" and Dr. Peter Stirling on a 5-year NSERC Discovery Grant and 3-year Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS) for his proposal entitled “Nuclear protein quality control mechanisms during genotoxic stress”.

Congratulations to Dr. Florian Kuchenbauer (Kuchenbauer Lab), who has been awarded a 2020 Canada Innovation Fund (CFI)/BC Knowledge Development Fund (BCKDF) John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF) grant for his proposal “Exploring mitochondrial function as therapeutic target in acute myeloid leukemia and multiple myeloma".

Congratulations to Afsaneh Mojtabanezhad Shariatpanahi (Kuchenbauer Lab) who has been awarded an Echoridge Educational Foundation Scholarship in Continuing Education of Stem Cell Transplant Research & Development for her project entitled “Elucidating the molecular mechanism of high-risk multiple myeloma”.