The 2020 awardees are listed below in alphabetical order:

Subha Dahal, PhD Candidate

Supervisors: Drs. Alan Cochrane (Medicine) and Rebecca Laposa (Medicine)

Project: Development of small molecule modulators of RNA processing as broad spectrum antivirals

Eric Donders, PhD Candidate

Supervisors: Drs. Molly Shoichet (Engineering), Mark Lautens (Arts & Science)

Project: Triggering Release from Colloidal Drug Aggregates

Brendan Innes, PhD Candidate

Supervisors: Drs. Gary Bader (Medicine) and Alison McGuigan (Engineering)

Project: Mapping macrophage-fibroblast links in hypoxic environments, focus on fibrosis

Zhongle Liu, Postdoctoral Fellow

Supervisors: Drs. Leah Cowen (Medicine) and Robert Batey (Arts & Science)

Project: Structure-enabled design and synthesis of fungal-selective mitochondrial inhibitors

Marios Mejdani, Postdoctoral Fellow

Supervisors: Drs. Radhakrishnan Mahadevan (Engineering) and James Rini (Medicine)

Project: COVID-19 Diagnostic & Vaccine Development Platform

Jiaxi Peng, Postdoctoral Fellow

Supervisors: Drs. Aaron Wheeler (Arts & Science) and Hui Peng (Arts & Science) and Cindi Morshead (Medicine)

Project: Analysis of Neural Stem Cell Aging by Single-Cell Proteomics

Michael Saikali, PhD Candidate

Supervisors: Drs. Carolyn Cummins (Pharmacy) and Henry Krause (Medicine)

Project: Targeted Temporal Quantification of Nuclear Receptors Involved in the Gut-Brain Axis

Suryasree Subramania, Postdoctoral Fellow

Supervisors: Drs. Sachdev Sidhu (Medicine) and Stephane Angers (Pharmacy)

Project: Innovative antibody engineering technologies for targeting therapeutically relevant Frizzled co-receptors

Warren van Loggerenberg, Postdoctoral Fellow

Supervisors: Drs. Frederick Roth (Medicine) and Axel Guenther (Engineering)

Project: A comprehensive variant effect map for CPOX