ORT Travel Award Winners

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Congratulations to the latest recipients of the ORT Travel Award.
Posted On: December 14, 2017
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Image Caption: November 2017 ORT Travel Award winners. (L-R, top) Emily Catherine McGaugh , Dr. Ali Mahdipour-Shirayeh, Mustafa Abdul Selam. (L-R, bottom) Ilias Ettayebi, Helene Retrouvey, Jennifer Ahn, Dr. Tomonari Kinoshita.

The ORT is committed to providing support for research trainees at UHN. It provides a limited number of travel awards to support graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to attend national and international conferences to disseminate their research. The ORT is pleased to announce the awardees of the November 2017 ORT Travel Award!

Graduate Students (alphabetical order):

1. Jennifer Ahn (Supervisor: Dr. Shannon E. Dunn, TGHRI)

2. Christopher Ahuja (Supervisor: Dr. Michael Fehlings, Krembil)

3. Samantha Audrain (Supervisor: Dr. Mary Pat McAndrews, Krembil)

4. Ilias Ettayebi (Supervisor: Dr. Daniel De Carvalho, PM) 5. Mehran Karimzadeh (Supervisor: Dr. Michael Hoffman, PM)

6. Emily Catherine McGaugh (Supervisor: Dr. Cristina Nostro, TGHRI)

7. Luka Milosevic (Supervisor: Dr. William D. Hutchison, Krembil)

8. Helene Retrouvey (Supervisor: Dr. Heather Baltzer, Krembil)

9. Mustafa Abdul Selam (Supervisor: Dr. Dinesh Thavendiranathan, TGHRI)

Postdoctoral Fellows (alphabetical order):

1. Dr. Smriti Kala (Supervisor: Dr. Lena Serghides, TGHRI)

2. Dr. Tomonari Kinoshita (Co-Supervisors: Dr. Lothar Lilge, PM and Dr. Kazuhiro Yasufuku, TGHRI)

3. Dr. Ali Mahdipour-Shirayeh (Supervisor: Dr. Rodger E. Tiedemann, PM)

4. Dr. Laura Garcia Prat (Supervisor: Dr. John Dick, PM)