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Student Awards

The 2022 NHRC held it’s first award competition for the top three best Student Oral and Poster Presentations. Student presentations were ranked by Faculty reviewers based on a number of criteria. Congratulations to the following students:

Oral Presentations

  • Lobna Abdel-Dayem (Supervisor Dr. Alex Moise)  – Investigating the role of Retinol Saturase in ferroptosis
  • Manon Valiquette (Supervisors. Dr. Chris Thome and Dr. Sujeenthar Tharmalingam) – The Immune Modulating Effects of Low Dose Ionizing Radiation and Its Applicability in Cancer Therapy
  • Kara Nadeau (Supervisor Dr. Grace Ma) – Perceptions on Prehabilitation in Northern Ontario General Surgery Patients

Poster Presentations

  • Mathieu Rheault-Henry (Supervisor Dr. Rony Atoui) – Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation Versus Sutureless Aortic Valve Replacement: Overview of the Recent Advancements in Cardiac Surgery
  • Courtney Ferris (Supervisor Dr. Marina Ulanova) – Neutrophils: necessary networking cells in host defense against Haemophilus influenzae
  • Imran Bagha (Supervisor Dr. Samuel Peters) – CPRAT: A Novel Method for Enhancing CPR