The NanoMedicines Innovation Network (NMIN) is pleased to announce the 14 recipients of the its 2023 Masters- and Doctoral-level Graduate Awards, and the four recipients of its 2024 Undergraduate Studentships. Recipients hail from three universities in three provinces.
The goal of NMIN Graduate Awards is to enable exceptional students to pursue nanomedicine academic research training with Canadian experts. Doctoral awards provide a stipend of $30,000 a year for up to two years; Master’s awards provide a one-year stipend of up to $17,500.
The 2023 NMIN Graduate Award recipients are:
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- Irafasha Credo Casmil (PhD award), University of British Columbia, supervisor: Dr. Anna Blakney
- Sunny Peiwei Chen (PhD award), University of British Columbia, supervisor: Dr. Anna Blakney
- Pablo Crespo (MSc award), University of Saskatchewan, supervisor: Dr. Ellen Wasan
- Sadie Graves (MSc award), University of British Columbia, supervisor: Dr. Sabrina Leslie
- Shagun Kothari (MSc award), University of British Columbia, supervisor: Dr. Sabrina Leslie
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- Tessa Morin (PhD award), University of British Columbia, supervisor: Dr. Colin Ross
- Lindsay Pallo (PhD award), University of British Columbia, supervisor: Dr. Bruce Verchere
- Victoria Palmgren (PhD award), University of British Columbia, supervisor: Dr. Robert Molday
- Petya Georgieva Popova (PhD award), University of British Columbia, supervisor: Dr. Anna Blakney
- Nicholas C. Solek (PhD award), University of Toronto, supervisor: Dr. Bowen Li
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- XuXin Sun (PhD award), University of British Columbia, supervisor: Dr. Marcel Bally
- Tyler Thomson (MSc award), University of British Columbia, supervisor: Dr. Colin Ross
- Abishek Wadhwa (PhD award), University of British Columbia, supervisor: Dr. Ken Harder
- Yao Zhang (PhD award), University of British Columbia, supervisors: Dr. Pieter Cullis & Dr. Sabrina Leslie
Recipients of NMIN Undergraduate Studentships receive a stipend of $1,500 a month for a maximum of four months between May 2023 and March 2024, to work on a nanomedicines-related research project under the supervision of an NMIN investigator..
The 2023 NMIN Undergraduate Studentship recipients are:
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- Janell Ko, University of British Columbia, supervisor: Dr. Shyh-Dar Li
- Nadine Ramsden, University of British Columbia, supervisor: Dr. Colin Ross
- Alexa Smith, University of British Columbia, supervisor: Dr. Sabrina Leslie
- Sijie (Cat) Zhang, University of British Columbia, supervisor: Dr. Marcel Bally