The 2019 awardees are listed below in alphabetical order:
Noor Al-saden, Postdoctoral Fellow
Supervisors: Drs. Ray Reilly (Pharmacy) and Mitch Winnik (Arts & Science)
Project: Radiation nanomedicine for intraoperative treatment of Glioblastoma
Rony Chidiac, Postdoctoral Fellow
Supervisors: Drs. Stephane Angers (Pharmacy) and Dev Sidhu (Medicine)
Project: Frizzled antibody agonists for modulation of endothelial cell permeability
Angela Duong, PhD Student
Supervisors: Drs. Ana Andreazza, Liliana Attisano and Martin Beaulieu (Medicine)
Project: Cerebral organoids to investigate the role of mitochondrial dysfunction in neurotransmission and bipolar disorder
Margot Karlikow, Postdoctoral Fellow
Supervisors: Drs. Keith Pardee (Pharmacy) and Gilbert Walker (Arts & Science)
Project: CRISPR-based sensors as diagnostic tools
Anastasia Korolj, PhD Student
Supervisors: Drs. Milica Radisic, Axel Guenther (Applied Science & Engineering), and Ana Konvalinka (Medicine)
Project: Podocytes-on-chip for predicting kidney disease recurrence
Jiabao Liu, Postdoctoral Fellow
Supervisors: Drs. Henry Krause (Medicine) and Carolyn Cummins (Pharmacy)
Project: Untargeted identification of natural modulators of orphan nuclear receptors
Mark Mabanglo, Postdoctoral Fellow
Supervisors: Drs. Walid A. Houry (Medicine) and Robert A. Batey (Arts & Science)
Project: Targeting ClpP proteases for antibiotic drug development: Mapping the reaction pathway by time-resolved X-ray crystallography
Jiaxi Peng, Postdoctoral Fellow
Supervisors: Drs. Aaron Wheeler and Hui Peng (Arts & Science)
Project: Analysis of neural stem cell aging by single-cell proteomics
Yu-xi Xiao, PhD Student
Supervisors: Drs. Jason Moffat (Medicine) and Shana Kelley (Pharmacy)
Project: High-throughput, microfluidic repression and activation CRISPR screening
Fei Xu, Postdoctoral Fellow
Supervisors: Drs. Eugenia Kumacheva and Alan Aspuru-Guzik (Arts & Science)
Project: Combining machine learning and microfluidic growth of cancer organoids for drug discovery