Department News

Congratulations to George Chaconas, Jennifer Cobb, Aaron Goodarzi, Jim McGhee & Xi-Long Zheng, all of whom were successful at the most recent CIHR competition!

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  Congratulations to Don Fujita and Karl Riabowol who were recently awarded new Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Research Grants! Click here for more information:  

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 Mayi Arcellana-Panlilio, together with her co-facilitators faculty members Anders Nygren (Engineering) and Lisa Gieg (Biological Sciences), led an interdisciplinary cross-Faculty team including 5 BHSc students to win big at this year's iGEM world championships at MIT in Cambridge, MA!! Congratulations to all of them for their fabulous showing!

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The 2011 Faculty Award winners have just been announced. Congratulations go out to Dr. Dave Schriemer who received both the Department's "Associate Professor" Award and the Faculty's "Cochrane Distinguished Achievement" Award, Dr. Susan Lees-Miller who received both the Department's "Schultz Award for General Excellence" and the Faculty's "Smith Distinguished Achievement" Award, and Dr. Randy Johnston who received the Department's "Hans van de Sande Leadership & Service" Award. Click here to see a list of previous award winners.

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Congratulations to Debbie Kurrasch and Sarah Childs who recently received CFI funds to expand & enhance their zebrafish studies! Click here and here to read more!

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Congratulations to  Sarah Childs, Minh Dang Nguyen and Raylene Reimer, all of whom were successful in the most recent CIHR operating grant competition!

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Derrick Rancourt has been appointed Deputy Director of the McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health. Click here for further details!

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Congratulations to George Chaconas who was recently named the 2011 recipient of the Canadian Society for Microbiology's Murray Award for Career Achievement. This is the society's premier award for senior scientists and recognizes George's outstanding contributions to research. See http://www.csm-scm.org/english/wn_news_csm_det.asp?id=176 for further details.

This was also featured in the Faculty of Medicine's News Digest.  Click here to read more!

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Congratulations to Frank Jirik who was successful at the most recent Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute grants competition!

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