Congratulations to all of those that were acknowledged on Research Day.
TWRI Neuroscientist Honoured as Inventor of the Year Dr. Andres Lozano was presented with this award by the UHN Office of Technology Development and Commercialization (TDC) for his ingenuity in using neurostimulation--a technology that modifies nerve activity--to treat depression, anxiety, cognitive disorders and Parkinson's disease.

"Dr. Lozano has been an author on more than 200 scientific publications and is listed as an inventor on 29 patent applications," says Dr. Brian Barber, Director of TDC. "He has also extended the reach of his inventions by founding a UHN spin-off company--called Functional Neuroscience--through which he is actively commercializing his inventions with different industry partners."

This award recognizes the UHN inventor or team that has made the greatest contribution to the advancement of human health by means of a patentable invention. Previous Inventor of the Year award winners include Drs. Joe Fisher (2005), Dan Drucker (2004) and Kevin Kain (2003).

OCI, TGRI and TWRI Researchers Named Trainees of the Year
Bill Ayach, Peter Stogios, and Dr. Cindy Zadikoff were the inaugural recipients of the Trainee of the Year award presented yesterday by CREdiT and made possible with support from Research Day sponsor VWR.

"These trainees have shown scientific excellence in their fields of cardiology, movement disorders and structural biology through publications in high impact journals, as well as contributed to their community over the past year," says Dr. Frances Skinner, TWRI Site Leader, CREdiT.

Bill Ayach, a graduate student supervised by Dr. Peter Liu (TGRI), Peter Stogios, a graduate student supervised by Dr. Gil Prive (OCI), and Dr. Cindy Zadikoff, a clinical research fellow supervised by Drs. Anthony Lang and Susan Fox (TWRI) were chosen from a dozen applicants.

Honourable mentions also went to the following trainees: Jillian Couto (Supervisor: Dr. Cathy Barr, TWRI), Ryan Doherty (Supervisor: Dr. Cheryl Arrowsmith, OCI), Christopher Kim (Supervisor: Dr. Terrence Yau, TGRI) and David Seminowicz (Supervisor: Dr. Karen Davis, TWRI).

UHN Congratulates Research Day Presentation Winners

Oral Presentations
Dr. Paula Barata, Paul Boutros, Ian Corbin, Tim Corson, Christopher Kim, Ji Hyun Ko, Mehrdad Hariri, Darrell Haufler, Jeffrey Liu, Christina Loh, Dr. Georges Maire, Marek Pacal, Catherine Schentag, Stephanie Sue, Dr. Jiefei Tong and Amy Wong.

Poster Presentations
Translational Research
Dr. Stuart Bisland, Miriam Mossoba and Craig Simpson.

Fundamental Research
Karla Badger, Dr. Emma Dempster, Leila Neshatian, Peter Sabatini and Dr. Peixiang Wang.

Clinical Research
Lynn Gauthier, Fawnda Pellett and Dr. Patricia Rose.

Read more about Research Day in a Special Issue of Net Results EXPRESS.