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Faculty of Health Sciences

Medical Sciences Graduate Program

Salute to Excellence

The Medical Sciences Graduate Program is very proud of its outstanding faculty and students whose impressive achievements manifest themselves in the successful record of scholarly excellence and a large number of prestigious scholarships and awards held by the graduate students.

We would like to acknowledge our award recipients and celebrate their success.

Photo of students in lab

CIHR Doctoral 2023-2024

  • Caroline Seiler (supervisor Dr. Premysl Bercik)
  • Elyse Letts (supervisor Dr. Joyce Obeid)
  • Ifeanyi Kennedy Nmecha (supervisor Dr. Joan Krepinsky)
  • Jenny Nguyen (supervisor Dr. Jeremy Hirota)
  • Kevin Zhao (supervisor Dr. Dawn Bowdish)
  • Safaa Naiel (supervisors Dr. Kjetil Ask/Dr. Martin Kolb)

CGSM 2023-2024

  • Abithiny Selvarajah (supervisor Dr. Alison Holloway)
  • Kayla Zhang (supervisor Dr. Manali Mukherjee)
  • Alice Man (supervisor Dr. Guillaume Pare)
  • Justin Giordano (supervisor Dr. Judith West-Mays)
  • Leila Somani-Davis (supervisor Dr. Carl Richards)
  • Misaal Mehboob (supervisor Dr. Ali Ashkar)
  • Nahal Emami Fard (supervisor Dr. Roma Sehmi)
  • Shilpa Tandon (supervisor Dr. Maria Ines Pinto-Sanchez)
  • Seyedeh Niki Sadat Afjeh (supervisor Dr.Joan Krepinsky)
  • Tyler Seto (supervisor Dr. Waliul Khan)
  • Victoria Lee (supervisor Dr. Amy Gillgrass)
  • Wa Yan (Margaret) Choi (supervisor Dr. Amy Gillgrass)

Eva Eugenia Lillian Cope Award 2023-2024

  • Allyssa Juliana Phelps (supervisor Dr. Manel Jordana)

Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements (CGS-MSFSS)

  • Safaa Naiel (supervisors Dr. Kjetil Ask/Dr. Martin Kolb)

Ontario Graduate Fellowship

  • Mark Wulczynski (supervisor Dr. Elena Verdu-Bercik)

Ontario Graduate Scholarship 2023-2024

  • Amr Mohamed Ahmed Ali (supervisor Dr. Theos Tsakiridis)
  • Alisha Kang (supervisor  Dr. Zhou Xing)
  • Alexander Joseph John Noble (supervisor Dr. Martin Kolb)
  • Amber Lynn Hann (supervisor Dr. Elena Verdu-Bercik)
  • Elizabeth Ball (supervisor Dr. Jeremy Hirota)
  • Ifeanyi Kennedy Nmecha (supervisor Dr. Joan Krepinsky)
  • Gayatri Nair (supervisor Dr. Alexander Hynes)
  • Keshikaa Suthaaharan (supervisor Dr. Alison Fox-Robichaud)
  • Megan Vierhout (supervisor Dr. Martin Kolb/Dr. Kjetil Ask)
  • Quan Zhou (supervisor Dr. Martin Kolb)
  • Sudeshna Dhar (supervisor Dr. Mark Larche)
  • Tina Podinic (supervisor Dr. Sandeep Raha)
  • Zaineb Hamoodi (supervisor Dr. Alison Holloway)

CGSD 2023-2024

  • Ana Portillo-Martinez (supervisor Dr. Ali Ashkar)
  • Caroline Seiler (supervisor Dr. Premysl Bercik)
  • Elyse Letts (supervisor Dr. Joyce Obeid)
  • Emily Feng (supervisor Dr. Ali Ashkar)
  • Genevieve Perono (supervisor Dr. Alison Holloway)
  • Kevin Zhao (supervisor Dr. Dawn Bowdish)
  • Liam Rondeau (supervisor Dr. Alberto Caminero)
  • Matteo Di Scipio (supervisor Dr. Guillaume Pare)

CIHR Vanier 2023-2024

  • Alice Man (supervisor Dr. Guillaume Pare)
  • Laiba Jamshed (supervisor Dr. Alison Holloway)
  • Misaal Mehboob (supervisor Dr. Ali Ashkar)
  • Jianhan Wu (supervisor Dr. Guillaume Pare)

Governor General’s Graduate
Academic Medal for 2023

  • Sophie Poznanski (supervisor Dr. Ali Ashkar)