Jamie Alexiuk, MSc student supervised by Dr. Todd Duhamel, was awarded a CIHR Canada Graduate Scholarship with funding in the amount of $27,000. The Canada Graduate Scholarships provide special recognition and support to students pursuing degrees in a health-related field in Canada. These candidates are expected to have an exceptionally high potential for future research achievement and productivity. CIHR is the Government of Canada’s agency for health research. CIHR’s mission is to create new scientific knowledge and to enable its translation into improved health, more effective health services and products, and a strengthened Canadian healthcare system. Composed of 13 Institutes, CIHR provides leadership and support to nearly 12,000 health researchers and trainees across Canada.
“My research at the Duhamel lab focuses on how lifestyle behaviours, particularly sleep, impact cardiovascular health and frailty in older women, while I also contribute to cardiac surgery research at St. Boniface Hospital. This funding award has been life-changing, allowing me to pursue my passion for women’s health research without financial stress, I am incredibly grateful to the members of the Duhamel lab—particularly Dr. Todd Duhamel, Amy Abegglen, Jacqueline Hay, Daniel Schwade Araujo, Luming Chen, Mudra Dave, and Susan Su—for their mentorship, guidance, and friendship.,” Jamie said.
Kaden Baskerville, PhD student in Dr. Henry Dunn’s lab, as awarded a CIHR Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master, for $17,500.
Afroza Parvin, PhD candidate also from Dunn lab, and Joanna Candas, Masters student in Dr. Miyoung Suh’s Lab were both recipients of the 2024 Dr. Alfred E. Deacon Graduate Student Award with funding of $15,000 each.
Jordan Charney, MSc Candidate, supervised by Dr. Carla Taylor and co-supervised Dr. Peter Zahradka received the following awards:
- Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA) from NSERC – $10,500
- Dr. Elizabeth B. Smith Convocation Prize from UM – $1,475.
- James Gordon Fletcher Graduate Research Award in Agricultural and Food Sciences from UM -$5,000.
CCARM Studentship Awards
- Chelsey Walchuk, PhD Student in Dr. Miyoung Suh’s lab, awarded the Mark & Patricia Smerchanski Endowed Studentship Grant – $8,957
- Shiqi (Sunny) Huang, PhD Student, in Dr. Carla Taylor’s lab, also awarded a Mark & Patricia Smerchanski Endowed Studentship Grant – $8,957
- Shunshun Jin, PhD Student, under Dr. Karmin O, received the Frank and Jeanne Plett Endowed Studentship Grant – $6,506
- Sunita Karki, MSc Student under Dr. Thomas Netticadan also awarded the Frank and Jeanne Plett Endowed Studentship Grant -$6,506
- Drupat Sharma, MSc Student in Dr. Mohammed Moghadasian’s lab, recognized with the TD Bank Group Graduate Student Award -$4,538
- Sandrius Mirochnikov and Hiu Yan, in Dr. Harold Aukema’s lab received $500 each as undergrads.
From left to right: Shiqi (Sunny) Huang, Sandrius Mirochnikov, Hiu Yan Chan, Sunita Karki, and Drupat Sharma. Not pictured: Chelsey Walchuk and Shunshun Jin.
Tim Rozovsky, (pictured below) MSc student in Dr. Davinder Jassal’s lab received the following awards:
- Canadian Cardiac Oncology Network (CCON) Best Abstract Award: $500
- Canadian Society of Echocardiography (CSE) Travel Bursary Research Award: $1000
- Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences (ICS) Travel Award: $1000
- University of Manitoba Graduate Students’ Association (UMGSA) Conference Grant: $300
- ICS Trainee Day: Silver Award in the Basic Science Oral Presentation Competition: $200
Molly Crandall PhD Student Cardiac Gene Biology & Women’s Heart and Cardiometabolic Function in ICS/CCARM received the Martin Morad Young Investigator Exchange Award from the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences European Section in Bratislava, Slovak Republic last October.
Hannah Zhang, PhD candidate in Dr. Amir Ravandi’s lab also received the Martin Morad Young Investigator Exchange Award from the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences European Section in Bratislava, Slovak Republic and was also recognized with the Grant Pierce Award for Excellence in Cardiovascular Physiology at the Edge of Science and Medicine Seminar Series.
Linda Bartosova, a PhD student from Slovakia who spent four months working in the Ravandi lab, received the Karl Werdan Poster Award for the work she performed here at the Institute of Cardiac Sciences.
Congratulations to all!