We are pleased to share that Katherine Baillie (Stirling Lab) and Dr. Athena Phoa (Jiang Lab) have received recognition at the BCCRI Rising Stars Awards.

Katherine Baillie's work on "Investigating dominant negative mutations in DNA2 as a model for targeted cancer therapy" earned her the Outstanding In-Person Poster Presentation Award.

Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow Dr. Kwangjin Park, Hoodless Lab, for being awarded a highly competitive fellowship from the MOGAM Science Scholarship Foundation. Dr. Park is one of ten recipients to receive the fellowship, a testament to his significant research contributions.

We are excited to announce that Dr. Fumio Takei has been awarded the prestigious 2024 Bernhard Cinader Award, recognizing exceptional leadership and mentorship in the field of Immunology among Canadian researchers.

The Canadian Society of Immunology (CSI) Award Committee unanimously applauded Dr. Takei's outstanding scientific achievements, in line with the award's criteria aimed at celebrating remarkable contributions.

We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Florian Kuchenbauer, distinguished scientist of Terry Fox Laboratory (Kuchenbauer Lab) and associate professor at University of British Columbia, has been honored with the Outstanding Academic Performance (OAP) award from the UBC Faculty of Medicine in 2022.

Students of Dr. Xiaoyan Jiang, Andrew Wu and Ryan Yen (Collings Stevens Laboratory), along with a team of researchers, have published a paper in Leukemia Journal titled, "Identification of Multivariable microRNA and Clinical Biomarker Panels to Predict Imatinib Response in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia at Diagnosis."

Congratulations to Dr. Hossein Rafiei, Michelle Yeung, Dr. Sara Kowalski, Dr. Gerald Krystal and Dr. Ingrid Elisia for their new publication titled, "Development of a novel human triculture model of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and identification of berberine as ameliorating steatosis, oxidative stress and fibrosis" in the Frontiers in Pharmacology journal, October 2023.

Congratulations to Dr. Amanda Amoah (Kuchenbauer Lab), for receiving the Walter Benjamin German Research Foundation (DFG) fellowship for the work titled "Characterization of miR-106a in inv(3)/t(3;3) AML and its exploitation as an avenue for treatment".

Congratulations to Mona Sadeghvalad, Davit Khijakadze, Dr. Mona Orangi and Dr. Fumio Takei (Takei Lab), for their new publication titled, “Flow cytometric analysis of innate lymphoid cells: challenges and solutions” in the Frontiers Immunology journal, September 2023.

Congratulations to graduate student Melika Bakharzi (Kuchenbauer Lab) for receiving the Dr. Andrew R. Belch MEET grant for young myeloma investigators, for the work titled, "Optimizing the Vk*MYC multiple myeloma model to investigate osteolytic bone lesions".