Recipient institutions
| Royal Ottawa Hospital – Research Chair in Suicide Prevention | $100,000 |
| Royal Ottawa Hospital – Prize for Mental Health Research | $100,000 |
| Carleton University – Health Science Scholarship | $10,000 |
| Compassionate Ottawa – Healthy End of Life Program (HELP) | $100,000 |
| Queen’s University – Mental Health Research | $235,850 |
| The Ottawa Hospital – From the Military to the Healthcare Front Line | $35,616 |
| Memorial University of Newfoundland | $27,000 |
| Dalhousie University | $25,000 |
| Université Laval | $27,500 |
| Université de Sherbrooke | $21,667 |
| Université de Montréal | $27,500 |
| McGill University | $25,600 |
| University of Ottawa | $27,500 |
| Queen’s University | $27,500 |
| University of Toronto | $27,500 |
| McMaster University | $27,500 |
| University of Western Ontario | $27,500 |
| Northern Ontario School of Medicine University | $25,300 |
| University of Saskatchewan | $25,276 |
| University of Alberta | $22,000 |
| University of Calgary | $27,500 |
| University of British Columbia | $27,500 |
Student recipients
Memorial University of Newfoundland
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Alexander Darmonkow | Contribution to the development of novel sequencing processes and omics analysis pipelines | Dr. Touati Benoukraf |
| Charlotte Elliott | Vulnerability and immunizations: immunological responses to COVID-19 vaccination in vulnerable populations | Dr. Rodney Russell |
| Brooklyn Goucher | Autism and animal assisted therapies | Dr. Morag Ryan |
| Khadija Ibrahim | Co-prescribing trends of opioids and benzodiazepines in NL | Dr. Shree Mulay |
| Andrea McGrath-Janes | Pediatric palliative care in emergency medicine | Dr. Archna Shah |
| Brenda Lewis Negandhi | The effect of probiotics feeding on gut microbiome | Dr. Qi Yuan |
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Dalhousie University
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor(s) |
| Meg Dahn | Incidence, risk factors, and outcome of anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity in pediatric oncology patients. A population based study in Canada | Dr. Ketan Kulkarni |
| Emily Howes Vallis | Impact of COVID-19 on youth depressive symptoms | Dr. Rudolf Uher |
| Madeleine Kubiseski | Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in pancreatic cancer mortality in Canada: evidence from the Canadian Vital Statistics Death Database | Dr. Mohammad Hajizadeh |
| Wajih Khan | Psychotropic prescription drug use during the COVID-19 pandemic. A scoping review | Dr. Swarna Weerasinghe |
| Josh McNutt | Evaluation of glass-r-90 radioembolization therapies in liver cancer at QEII | Dr. Robert Abraham |
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Université Laval
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Elizabeth De Rico | Impact of body position on aortic stiffness compared to the impact on brachial stiffness | Dr. Mohsen Agharazii |
| Karolanne Demers | L’utilisation des bloqueurs des récepteurs de l’angiotensine ll dans le ralentissement de la progression de la sténose aortique | Dre. Marie-Annick Clavel |
| Elizabeth Gauthier | Evaluation and improvement of the quality of medical acts in outpatient cardiology clinic | Dr. Jean-Pierre Dery |
| Gaelle Gloaguen | Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy 2 | Dr. Lynn Gauthier |
| Florence Grantham-Paulin | Adequacy between self-assessment of symptoms during chemotherapy and medical notes | Dr. Julie Lemieux |
| Gabrielle Guillemette | Canadian Bladder Cancer Information System | Dr. Michele Lodde |
| Chloe-Eve Rochette | La dissection aortique de type A et son pronostic à moyen et à long terme | Dr. Francois Dagenais |
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Université de Sherbrooke
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Abdeljouad Ait Bihi | Microenvironnement tumoral et arques hépatiques comme margueurs pronostiques | Dr. Yves Collin |
| Marc-Antoine Blais | L’utilisation de la radiomique afin de réduire le surtraitement en cancer du rein | Dr. Patrick Richard |
| Jerome Costisella | Investigation des résultats thérapeutiques par radiochimiothérapie chez des patients | Dr. Chang Shu Wang |
| Anna Duguleanu | Mise à jour de la banque de données du Canadian Kidney Cancer Information System | Dr. Patrick Richard |
| Samuel Farag | A prospective non-inferiority randomized controlled pilot study | Dr. Le Mai Tu |
| Stephanie Faucher | Évaluation psychologique durant la grossesse des participantes de la cohorte CAN-B | Dr. Annie Ouellet |
| Marie-Lou Gadoury-Campbell | L’utilisation de la radiomique afin de réduire le surtraitement en cancer du rein | Dr. Patrick Richard |
| Emmanuel Labbe | Prise en charge du cancer de la vessie localisé au CUISSS de l’Estrie CHUS | Dr. Claudio Jeldres |
| Samuel Marion | Microenvironnement tumoral et arques hépatiques comme margueurs pronostiques | Dr. Yves Collin |
| Julian Nantais | Mise à jour de la banque de données du Canadian Kidney Cancer Information System | Dr. Patrick Richard |
| Emile Vallieres | Étude retrospective sur les complications urinaires à moyen et à long terme chez les patients | Dr. Salima Ismail |
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Université de Montréal
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Malik Affar | Éffet des variants leucemogènes d’ikaros et détermination de leur interactome protéique | Dr. Eric Milot |
| Bassel Farhat | Cartographie de l’interaction de KDM1B avec ASXL2 | Dr. Kathie Gierka |
| Melissa Papillon | Le neutrophile est en joueur clé dans l’inflammation vasculaire chez les patients insuffisants cardiaques: potentiel thérapeutique de la colchicine | Dr. Martin G. Sirois |
| Marie-Anne Routhier | Targeting the RPA protein to counter cisplatin resistance in ovary cancer | Dr. Hugo Wurtele |
| Honrado Christson Tohon | Déterminer l’impact du dalcetrapib, un inhibiteur de la CETP, et de l’adenylate cyclase 9 sur le métabolisme de l’apolipoproteine E dans les macrophages charges en cholesterol | Dr. Eric Rheaume |
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McGill University
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Sam Amar | Echo markers for prenatal identification of aortic coarctation | Dr. Gabriel Altit |
| Aridj Bouragbi | Effect of melatonin administration on the circadian rhythms of postmenopausal women with insomnia | Dr. Diane Boivin |
| Hillary Chappus-McCendie | Role of syncytiotrophoblast-derived extracellular vesicles in placenta originated endothelial cell dysfunction in pre-eclampsia | Dr. Stella Daskalopoulou |
| David Derish | Investigating a cellular powerhouse on a patient-wide level: a study of iPSC-cardiomyocytes’ function after injury | Dr. Renzo Cecere |
| Elie Fadel | ECI1 expression in prostate tumor tissues as a prognostic biomarker | Dr. Jacques Lapointe |
| Liliane-Marie Fakhouri | Discovering novel risk factors for aortic stenosis | Dr. James Engert |
| Michael Minello | Molecular alterations in cytologically indeterminant thyroid modules | Dr. Richard Payne |
| Sera Whitelaw | BRAF reflex mutation testing in melanoma, lung and colorectal cancers | Dr. Ivan Litvinov |
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University of Ottawa
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Robert Adamo | Accuracy of the liver imaging reporting and data system (LI-RADS) for diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma: individual patient data meta-analysis | Dr. Matthew McInnes |
| Veronica Chan | Medical versus surgical management of thoracic aortic disease in the elderly | Dr. Munir Boodhwani |
| Justen Choueiry | Treadmill exercise myocardial flow reserve imaging with 18F-flurpiridaz PET for improved diagnosis of hemodynamically significant coronary artery disease | Dr. Robert deKemp |
| Jessica Poliwoda | Management of acute heart failure in the emergency department | Dr. Ian Stiell |
| Xiu Xia Sherry Tan | Comparison of Canadian versus commercially-made CD19 CAR-T cells for hematologic malignancies | Dr. Natasha Kekre |
For further information on the papers from University of Ottawa
Queen’s University
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Adrienn Bourkas Goczi | Effectiveness and impact of a Canadian accelerated clinic on timeline of cancer diagnosis and treatments in patients with suspected cancer | Dr. Jim Biagi |
| Mahshid Hosseini | Does the type of gestational diabetes (diet-controlled or insulin-requiring) increase CVD risk development? A retrospective client review | Dr. Graeme Smith |
| Kiera Liblik | What is the efficacy of machine learning algorithms for the prognostication of return of spontaneous circulation | Dr. Akshay Rajaram |
| Isis Lunsky | Who gets palliative care? A retrospective cohort study assessing the effects of demographic factors on access to palliative care for bladder cancer patients in Ontario | Dr. Robert Christopher Doiron |
| Lora Stepanian | Live vs automated reminders for colorectal cancer screening: a systematic review | Dr. Don Thiwanka Wijeratne |
For further information on the papers from Queen’s University
University of Toronto
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Elizabeth Boyd | Mild behavioral impairment: cognitive profile and brain atrophy in the early stages of neurodegenerative disorders | Dr. Krista Lanctot |
| Chan Hwi Cho | Identifying biological markers of early vs. late brain metastases in patients with breast cancer | Dr. Sunit Das |
| Wei Fang Dai | Real-world outcomes of nivolumab for patients with recurrent head and neck cancer (HNC) | Dr. Kelvin Chan |
| Kavi Grewal | Wholesale cardiac imaging surveillance with echocardiography and radionuclide assays during breast cancer chemotherapy (WISER) | Dr. Husam Abdel-Qadir |
| Michel Kiflen | CHOICES trial | Dr. Jacob Udell |
| Zeel Patel | Establishing the prognostic utility of plasma-based liquid biopsies in meningiomas using cell-free methylated DNA immunoprecipitation with deep sequencing | Dr. Gelareh Zadeh |
| Alexander Rodzinka | Prostate cancer brain metastases: identifying prognostic imaging markers | Dr. Urban Emmenegger |
| Jeremy Wu | Developing an early warning system to predict tumour recurrence and progression in NMIBC | Dr. Girish S. Kulkarni |
| Micah Zagala | Improving mental health transitions in care using QI science and experience-based co-eesign | Dr. Andrea Waddell |
| Teresa Zhu | Early detection of aggression in first episode psychosis: a structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging study | Dr. Nathan Kolla |
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McMaster University
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Vanessa Catenacci | Virtual day programs for adolescents with eating disorders: a qualitative analysis of benefits and barriers to treatment in virtual settings | Dr. Jennifer Couturier |
| Matteo Di Scipio | Investigating cardiometabolic biomarkers with Mendelian randomization | Dr. Guillaume Pare |
| Alice Man | A novel Mendelian randomization approach to assess treatment outcomes in patient subgroups | Dr. Guillaume Pare |
| Yujin Suk | ITGA5 is a novel immunotherapeutic target against treatment refractory medulioblastoma | Dr. Sheila Singh |
| Jianhan Wu | Transcriptome profiling of ACLY genetic deletion in a human-like model of NASH induced HCC | Dr. Gregory Steinberg |
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University of Western Ontario
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Maud Ahmed | Investigating association of severely high triglycerides and carotid intima-media thickness | Dr. Robert Hegele |
| Al Retage Al Bader | Perceptions of Canadian radiation oncologist, medical physicist and radiation trainees about the feasbility and need of BNCT in Canada: a national survey | Dr. Ming Pan |
| Charlotte Hansen | Community voting to determine priorities in head and neck oncology research – a pilot project | Dr. Pencilla Lang |
| Nancy Liu | Moral distress in health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic | Dr. Don Richardson |
| Isidora Ngampoua Ntienjem | Fertility in cancer patients | Dr. Caroline Hamm |
| Wei Cen Wang | Tumour KIM-1 expression and risk of metastasis in patients with renal cell carcinoma | Dr. Lakshman Gunaratnam |
For further information on the papers from University of Western Ontario
Northern Ontario School of Medicine University
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Megan Clark | Evaluation of clinical and cardiac outcomes in patients referred to multidisciplinary cardio-oncology clinic: observational retrospective study (chart review) | Dr. Olexly Aseyev |
| Alexandra Klem | Investigating anti-cancer compounds for novel immunotherapy applications | Dr. Hoant-Thanh Le |
| Alyssa Labelle | Pediatric spinal cord injury: using administrative claims data to examine long-term health outcomes and healthcare utilization | Dr. Melanie Squarzolo |
| Julie Leroux | Exploring cultural program supports for Indigenous patients with opioid use disorder: Indigenous provider perspectives in a pandemic | Dr. Marion Maar |
| Mathieu Rheault-Henry | Obesity paradox in cardiac surgery | Dr. Rony Atoui |
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University of Saskatchewan
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Lucas Fisher | Outcome of male breast cancer in Saskatchewan: a multicentre population based retrospective cohort study | Dr. Shahid Ahmed |
| Haylen Langelier | Clinical outcomes in CHF: comparison of an optimized clinic to usual care | Dr. Andrea Lavoie |
| Hifsa Noor | Variation in number of auxillary sentinel lymph nodes collected by breast surgeons in Saskatoon | Dr. Gary Groot |
| Mohamed Saber Omar | Western Canadian province experience on the rate of VIE in MM patients | Dr. Ibraheem Othman |
| Prapti Patel | A retrospective review of single ventricle pathway management in Saskatchewan | Dr. Tim Bradley |
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University of Alberta
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Gaurav Adhikari | Determining whether T and B lymphoblasts in pediatric acute lymphoblast leukemia (ALL) can independently impact plasma capacity to generate thrombin and fibrin creating a prothrombotic state: a novel mechanism for risk for deep vein thrombosis in childhood ALL | Dr. Nicole Kosturic |
| Devon Hupka | The role of fibroblast-specific Adam17 in cardiac remodelling | Dr. Zamaneh Kassiri |
| Amanda Krysler | High intensity interval training in pediatric heart transplant recipients: evaluating a novel telemedicine video game-linked exercise platform | Dr. Michael Khoury |
| Vaishvi Patel | Translating findings of an electronic student survey into accessible digital information for young adults to increase understanding of menopause experiences | Dr. Susan J. Ross |
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University of Calgary
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Shubidito Ahmed | Exploring the relationship in Alberta between metastatic solid tumors, immunotherapy treatment and colitis | Dr. Christopher Ma |
| Sophie Hu | Validating the mild behavioral impairment checklist in a cognitive clinic: comparisons with the neuropsychiatric inventory questionnaire | Dr. Zahinoor Ismail |
| Cindy Kalenga | The association between estrogen use and cardiovascular disease in women | Dr. Sofia Ahmed |
| Rutvij Khanolkar | Comprehensive immunogenetic profiling and prognostication of hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients | Dr. Jan Storek |
| Lucy Lei | Cardiac pacing for treatment of vasovagal syncope: a systematic review and meta-analysis | Dr. Satish Raj |
For further information on the papers from University of Calgary
University of British Columbia
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Ishman Bhulyan | Biomarkers to predict successful responses to immunotherapy in renal cell carcinoma | Dr. Gang Wang |
| Clement Chui | Perioperative stroke screeing tools in cardiac surgery: a pilot study | Dr. Alana Flexman |
| Dushanthi Dissanayake | Safety of pembrolizumab in older patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) | Dr. Doran Ksienski |
| Darien Grace | Enhanced remote monitoring in hybrid cardiac rehabilitation | Dr. Nate Moulson Dr. Carolyn Taylor |
| Salina Kung | Relationship between separation anxiety, OCD and attachment styles in postpartum mothers | Dr. Nichole Fairbrother |
| Hong Li | Causes of death in older patients with high risk breast cancer | Dr. Caroline Mariano |
| Rebecca Lim | Effect of antipsychotics on brain complement C4 protein levels | Dr. Clare Beasley |
| Jack Lofroth | Developing automated analysis tools for flow cytometry AML MRD detection | Dr. Xuehai Wang |
| Chantal Percival | Finding breast cancer relapses in FDG-PET reports using natural language processing | Dr. Alan Nichol |
| Sukhmeet Singh Sachal | Challenges and opportunities for screening and diagnosis of melanoma in northern British Columbia | Dr. Nadine Caron Dr. Anastassi Halka |
| Gurwinder Singh Sidhu | Assessment of epicardial fat in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction | Dr. Simon Rabkin |
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