The 2021 awardees are listed below in alphabetical order:

Dustin Duncan, Postdoctoral Fellow

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

Project: Optimization of Tri-substituted Indazoles as Inhibitors of Fungal Respiration

 

Emily Gilbert, Postdoctoral Fellow

Supervisors: Drs. Cindi Morshead (Medicine) & Molly Shoichet (Engineering)

Project: Novel approaches to manipulate neuroinflammation in a pre-clinical model of Multiple Sclerosis        

 

Ingrid Grozavu, PhD Candidate

Supervisors: Drs. Igor Stagljar (Medicine) & Michael Ohh (Medicine)

Project: Using the MaMTH-DS and SIMPL-DS assays to screen AI-derived inhibitors targeting the oncogene KRAS G12D

 

Yechen Hu, Postdoctoral Fellow

Supervisors: Drs. Aaron Wheeler (Arts & Science) & Penney Gilbert (Engineering)

Project: Multi-Omics Analysis of Muscle Stem Cell Induced Muscle Disease

 

Shahrzad Jahanshahi, Postdoctoral Fellow

Supervisors: Drs. Walid Houry (Medicine) & Alan Cochrane (Medicine)

Project: Discovery of Broad-Spectrum Anti-Coronovirus Therapeutics

 

Rick Lu, PhD Candidate

Supervisors: Drs. Milica Radisic (Engineering) & Michael Sefton (Engineering)

Project: Peptide therapeutics for SARS-CoV-2 induced heart failure testing in vascularized perfusable heart-on-a-chip system

 

Zhen Qin, PhD Candidate

Supervisors: Drs. Xinyu Liu (Engineering) & Keith Pardee (Pharmacy)

Project: Miniaturized RT-LAMP Paper-based device for Point-of-Care COVID Viral RNA Detection

 

Tudor Radu, PhD Candidate

Supervisors: Drs. Patrick Gunning (Arts & Science) & Scott Prosser (Arts & Science)

Project: Discovery of a Novel Allosteric Selective First in Class DNAJ-PRKACA Inhibitor for the Treatment of Fibrolamellar Hepatocellular Carcinoma

 

Wendy Wang, Postdoctoral Fellow

Supervisors: Drs. Leo Chou (Engineering) & Christine Allen (Pharmacy)

Project: DNA nanodevices for enhanced immune targeting of the tumor microenvironment

 

Nila Wu, PhD Candidate

Supervisors: Drs. Alison McGuigan (Engineering) & Cheryl Arrowsmith (Medicine)

Project: Targeting Macrophage-Driven Tumour Cell Regrowth after Chemotherapy Treatment in a 3D Engineered Tumour