Awardees
Awards in 2022-23
Trainee Awardees
Wendy Xu | ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Graduate Excellence Scholarship |
Isha Ralhan | Sir Frederick Banting and Dr. Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral (CIHR) |
Emily Berg | ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Diabetes Institute Studentship |
Jichien Zhu | Chinese Scholarship Council PhD studentship (2022-2026) |
Razoan Alrimon | ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Graduate Entrance Scholarship |
Tara Janes |
CIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022-2025) |
Mantash Grewal |
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry 75th Anniversary Award |
Boyan Vasilev |
¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Graduate Recruitment Scholarship 46th Annual Canadian Lipoprotein Conference / 2022 Canadian Vascular & Lipid Summit - Winner of a best poster presentation in the MSc student category¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Innovates Health Solutions Summer Studentship |
Hellen da Silva |
Mitacs Globalink Graduate Fellowship Award |
Zoe Qinyi Xu | Chinese Scholarship Council PhD studentship (2022-2026) |
Lillian Wanyi Fang | Chinese Scholarship Council PhD studentship (2022-2026) |
Yuzi Wang | Chinese Scholarship Council PhD studentship (2022-2026) |
Rui Cai |
The Hospital for Sick Children Restracomp Fellowship |
Vivian Biancardi |
First Author of Top Cited Article 2020-2021 in The Journal of Comparative Neurology (JCN): “Mapping of the excitatory, inhibitory, and modulatory afferent projections to the anatomically defined active expiratory oscillator in adult male rats”, 2020. doi: 10.1002/cne.24984.2021-22 |
Faculty Awardees
David Olson |
NSERC Lab2Market Assessment Grant |
Maria Ioannou | Canada Research Chair Tier 2 |
Gregory D Funk | 2023 Julius H. Comroe, Jr. Distinguished Lectureship of the American Physiological Society Respiration Section |
Awards in 2021
Trainee Awardees
Stephany Zani |
Keystone Symposium Scholarship Sir Frederick Banting and Dr. Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral (CIHR) CIHR Canada Graduate Scholarships – Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ President’s Doctoral Prize of Distinction |
Julie Jacquemyn | 2021 Dr. Rowland and Muriel Haryett Neuroscience Fellowship |
Yingxi Li | ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Graduate Excellence Scholarship |
Isha Ralhan | ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Graduate Excellence Scholarship |
Vivian Biancardi |
Dr. Rowland and Muriel Haryett Neuroscience Fellowship Award - Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute (NMHI) |
Annette Pisanski | Dick Stein Award for Best Dept. of Physiology Paper from 2020 |
Mantash Grewal | ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Graduate Excellence Scholarship |
Miguel Cardoso | Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry 75th Anniversary Award |
Hellen da Silva |
¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Master’s Entrance Scholarship - Thesis-Based ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Diabetes Institute Research Day - Best Junior Presentation |
Rui Cai |
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry Med Star Award Graduate Student Peter Pang Award |
Robert Reklow |
APS Respiration Section Trainee Poster Presentation Award |
Faculty Awardees
Silvia Pagliardini | NSERC Discovery Grant (2021-2026) |
David Olson | Honorary Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa), University of Lethbridge |
Maria Ioannou |
Sloan Fellow in Neuroscience Heart and Stroke National New Investigator Henry J. M. Barnett Scholarship |
Awards in 2020
Trainee Awardees
Nayara Antunes Lopes | ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Graduate Excellence Scholarship |
Isha Ralhan | SynAD Training Award |
Tolga Kilin | ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Graduate Excellence Scholarship |
Midhat Rizvi |
¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Graduate Excellence Scholarship Sir Frederick Banting and Dr. Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master’s (CIHR) Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry 75th Anniversary Award |
Stephany Zani |
¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Graduate Excellence Scholarship ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Diabetes Institute Research Day Best Oral Presentation ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Diabetes Institute Graduate Studentship Award ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Graduate Teaching Award |
Tara Janes | Canadian Lung Association PDF |
Sara Lind Jepsen |
Independent Research Fund Denmark (Danish Diabetes Academy) International Postdoctoral Grant |
Miriam Bernecker | Helmholtz Diabetes Research Centre - ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Diabetes Institute Graduate Scholarship |
Xiong Liu | ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Graduate Excellence Scholarship |
Vivan Biancardi |
Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry. Med Star Postdoctoral Award for the publication “Mapping of the excitatory and inhibitory and modulatory afferent projections to the anatomically defined active expiratory oscillator in adult male rats”. J Comp Neurol. 2020. doi: 10.1002/cne.24984.
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Robert Reklow |
Richard B. Stein Physiology Graduate Studentship |
Faculty Awardees
Silvia Pagliardini |
Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Cannabis Research in Priority Areas - Team Grant (Project Leader) Women and Children Health Research Institute (WCHRI) Innovation Grant Canadian Lung Association- National Grant Review (NGR)/Grant-in-Aid (GIA) |
Emmanuelle Cordat |
CIHR Project Grant Kidney Health Research Grant, Kidney Foundation of Canada Women and Children’s Health Research Institute Biomedical Research Grant |
David Olson |
CIHR Commercialization Grant CIHR Project Grant Worldwide Universities Network Special Grant on Research Needs from COVID-19 |
Maria Ioannou |
Canadian Institutes of Health Research Project Grant |
Awards in 2019 and earlier
Trainee Awardees
Stephany Zani |
Department of Physiology Research Day Best Oral Presentation Department of Physiology Travel Award Natural Health Products Society Conference Travel Award Canadian Physiology Society Excellence Award ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Diabetes Institute Travel Award ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Graduate Fellowship Award |
Nayara Antunes Lopes | 11th World DOHaD Congress Travel Prize |
Kelycia Leimer | Dick Stein Award for Best Dept. of Physiology Paper from 2018 |
Isha Ralhan | Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry 75th Anniversary Award |
Mei Hu | Chinese Scholarship Council (2017-2021) |
Annette Pisanski |
Sir Frederick Banting and Dr. Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master’s (CIHR) Canada Lung Association BOA Studentship |
Brandon Hauer | Sir Frederick Banting and Dr. Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master’s (CIHR) |
Jasmeen Saini | Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry 75th Anniversary Award |
Vivian Biancardi |
Women and Children’s Health Research Institute Postdoctoral Scholarship 3rd Place Poster Presentation Postdoctoral Fellow at Women and Children’s Health Research Institute (WCHRI) Research Day |
Emilie Beaulieu-Bayne |
7th Annual Canadian Neuroscience Neurometabolic Club Meeting - Best Oral Abstract in the MSc Student Category Sir Frederick Banting and Dr. Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master’s (CIHR) Walter H. Johns’ Graduate Fellowship |
Miguel Cardoso | 44th Annual Canadian Lipoprotein Conference / 2019 Canadian Vascular & Lipid Summit - Winner of a best oral presentation in the graduate student category |
Xiong Liu | Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry 75th Anniversary Award |
Rui Cai |
¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Innovates Graduate Student Scholarship Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry Dean’s Doctoral Award Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry 75th Anniversary Award |
Robert Reklow |
Women and Children’s Health Research Institute Graduate Studentship
Government of ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Graduate Citizenship Award 1st Place Ph.D. Poster Presentation – WCHRI Research Day Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Studentship – PhD Level ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship Honorary Presentation Award - 26th Physiology Research Day |
Faculty Awardees
Silvia Pagliardini |
Canadian Institutes of Health Research Project Grant |
David Olson |
CIHR Project Grant March of Dimes Conference Grant TEC Edmonton Innovation Award |
Maria Ioannou | NSERC Discovery Grant |
Jessica Yue | Canada Research Chair Tier 2 in Brain Regulation of Metabolism |
Gregory D Funk |
2018 Killam Excellence in Mentoring Award, ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ 2017 Elected as Chair, Respiration Section of the American Physiological Society |