Recipient institutions
| Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (Dr. Wendy Spettigue) Examining the effectiveness of an online parent psychoeducation intervention for the management of child and adolescent eating disorders: an Ontario multi-site initiative 2012 report [PDF] |
$30,000 |
| Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (Dr. Allison Kennedy) Development and evaluation of a brief group intervention for youth presenting to the ED with mild to moderate suicidal ideation 2012 report [PDF] |
$30,000 |
| Peer Support Accreditation and Certification (Canada) (Stéphane Grenier) Elevation of the practice of mental health peer support to a formally recognized and nationally accepted method of mental health care that is complementary to clinical care methods and established employee assistance programs 2012 report [PDF] |
$30,000 |
| Memorial University of Newfoundland | $20,000 |
| Université Laval | $25,000 |
| Université de Montréal | $25,000 |
| McGill University | $25,000 |
| University of Ottawa | $25,000 |
| Queen’s University | $25,000 |
| University of Toronto | $25,000 |
| University of Western Ontario | $25,000 |
| University of British Columbia | $25,000 |
Student recipients
Memorial University of Newfoundland
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Jason Ackerman | Active surveillance for favourable risk of prostate cancer in Canada: interpretation of clinical parameters | Dr. Laurence Klotz |
| Jillian Green | Study the mechanisms of cell injury and recovery in cerebral ischemia | Dr. Mario Valentino |
| Jennifer Lemessurier | Sorafenib for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma | Dr. Melanie Seal |
| Sarah Smith | Review of pilot dialectical behavior therapy skills group for adolescents with chronic and severe inability to regulate emotional responses | Dr. Weldon Bonnell |
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Université Laval
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Jean-Philippe Blais | Implication thérapeutique de la voie mTOR dans le cancer superficiel de la vessie | Dr. Yves Coumartin |
| Marie-Andrée Bérubé-Lespérance | Comorbidité entre les troubles anxieux et les troubles psychotiques | Dr. Marc-André Roy |
| Juliane Guay | Pharmacological repression of serotonin receptor 2B (HTR2B) in metastatic ocular melanoma cells | Dr. Solonge Landreuille |
| Marie Julien | Association de malignité aux papillomes bénins de sein diagnostiqués à la biopsie à l’aiguille | Dr. Louise Provencher |
| Marie-Hélène Laflamme | Impact de la mutation Q121 de l’ectronucléotide pyrophosphatase phosphodiesterase 1 (ENPP1) sur son activité enzymatique et sur la réponse à l’insuline | Dr. Patrick Mathieu |
| Jean-Simon Lalancette | Body composition analysis of patients with lung cancer via computed tomography | Dr. Francois Maltais |
| Goran Rimac | Retrospective study on positron emission tomography (18F-FDG-PET) accuracy for initial staging of patients with high risk prostate cancer (Gleason score 8, 9, or 10) | Dr. Frederic Pouliot |
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Université de Montréal
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Émile Demers | Crystallization of Lin28 complexes involved in microRNA biogenesis | Dr. Pascale Legault |
| Alexandra Desroyers | Pre-conditionnement des cellules souches pour l’évaluation de leur potential thérapeutique dans les maladies cardiovasculaires | Dr. Nicolas Noiseux |
| Nassr Nama | The peptidomimetric TC14012, an inverse agonist on CXCR4-B arrestine2 pathway | Dr. Nikolaus Heveker |
| Karine Moineau-Vallée | SOCS1 interacts with an ssDNA mimicking motif found in p53, p73 and E2F1 | Dr. Gerardo Ferbeyre |
| Jessica Piché | Paysage génomique de la leucémie lymphoblastique aigue de l’enfant | Dr. Daniel Sinnett |
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McGill University
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Emmy Cai | What predicts positive response to psychostimulants on math performance in children with ADHD | Dr. Natalie Grizenko |
| Nastasija Lezaic | Familial endophenotypes in mood disorders | Dr. Nancy Low |
| Nicole Mak | Understanding the consequence of lactate rise in post-cardiac surgery patients | Dr. Kosar Khwaja |
| Daniel Marinescu | Identification of the unstable carotid atherosclerotic plaque: from bench to clinical practice | Dr. Stella Kaskalopoulou |
| Natalie Mathews | The role of the MAPK phosphatase DUSP3 in mediating senescence in pilocytic astrocytoma | Dr. Nada Jabado |
| Shiru Liu | Role of the translation initiation factor elF4E in therapeutic response and resistance to RAF inhibition in melanoma cells | Dr. Wilson Miller |
| Paul Savage | Investigating the role of tumor-derived extracellular vesicles in the generation of cancer-associated fibroblasts | Dr. Morag Park |
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University of Ottawa
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Rita Hafizi | The Canadian Quit Smoking Program for HIV Patients: tackling morbidities of cardiovascular disease and deprestion | Dr. Louise Balfour |
| Eeidre Ongaro | Characterizing atherosclerotic plaque with sodium flouride PET | Dr. Robert Beanlands |
| Nghi Phan | Surgery vs. radiation treatment of spinal metastases | Dr. Eugene K. Wai |
| Sophia Colantonio | The association of indoor tanning usage and cutaneous malignant melanoma in adults in North America: systematic review and meta-analysis | Dr. Jennifer Beecker |
| Ryan Tam | Clinical characteristics of TIA in atrial fibrillation patients | Dr. M. Sharma |
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Queen’s University
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| David He | CNV scoring matrix assembly | Dr. Lakshmi Muthaswamy |
| Daniel Mok | The prevalence of chronic pain after CABG in Canada: a pilot study | Dr. Tarit Sam |
| Sohaib Munir | Diagnostic accuracy of computer tomography for intra-atrial thrombosis in patients undergoing catheter ablation for atrial fibrolation | Dr. Raveen Pal |
| Laura Narducci | Exploring how Facebook may contribute to anxiety in adolescents with anxiety disorders | Dr. Sarosh Khalid-Khan |
| William Reginold | Mild cognitive impairment and quality of life in Parkinson’s disease patients | Dr. Connie Marras |
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University of Toronto
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Matthew Adamson | The added value of exercise variables in addition to clinical predictors to predict prognosis in heart failure | Dr. Heather Ross |
| Chrystal Chan | Identification of genomic disorders associated with schizophrenia | Dr. Anne Bassett |
| Nicolas Chin-Yee | Genetic syndromes and genetic risk factors in adults with congenital cardiac disease | Dr. Anne Bassett |
| Vlad Dragan | The atrial fibrillation therapies after emergency room visit: outpatient care for patients with acute AF – the after 3 student | Dr. Paul Dorian |
| Marcus Ede Allan | Gender differences in the methods of completed suicides from 1998 to 2009 in Toronto | Dr. Ayal Schaffer |
| Justine Giddens | Evaluating cognitive and clinical symptoms in cannabis dependent individuals with and without schizophrenia: a one-month abstinence study | Dr. Tony George |
| David Matthews | Novel approaches to the epidemiology of bipolar disorder | Dr. Benjamin Goldstein |
| Hala Muaddi | Use of the anti-diabetic drug metformin in cancer therpay | Dr. Marianne Koritzinsky |
| Ankit Rastogi | Pharmacokinetics of tranexameric acid in patients with varying renal function undergoing high risk cardiac surgery with the use of cardiopulmonary bypass | Dr. Marcin Wasowica |
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University of Western Ontario
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Colin Adams | FimH as a uroplakin-specific ligand for bladder cancer imaging in vivo | Dr. Jonathan Izawa |
| Arvand Barghi | Validation of a radiation oncology contouring library | Dr. George Rodrigues |
| Jack (Zhe) Li | Thyroid malignancy as a late toxicity of pediatric oncology treatment | Dr. Jason Franklin |
| Neil Mundi | Oncolytic viruses for the treatment of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma | Dr. Anthony Nichols |
| Francesca Schiavone | Common elements for the psychotherapeutic management of patients with self injurious behaviour | Dr. Paul Links |
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University of British Columbia
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Isabel Chen | Training the physician-advocate: a collaborative Cuban-Canadian-American colloquium on medical education | Dr. Shafik Dharamsi |
| Janny Xue Chen | Evaluation of morbidity and mortality in children undergoing heart transplantation: a 15-year retrospective review of health-related outcomes at British Columbia Children’s Hospital | Dr. Derek George Human |
| Vivian Liu | Nutritional needs-based assessment for patients with primary brain cancer and their families | Dr. Roy Ma |
| Sari Raber | Improving health in the Downtown Eastside through street soccer: a longitudinal examination of a creative preventative health strategy | Dr. Alasdair Barr |
| Kelsey Steams | Thrombotic events in cancer patients | Dr. Janine Davies |
| Samantha Stubbins | Assessment of atrial fibrillation (AF) burden in patients with AF and heart failure (HF) – a pilot project | Dr. Anthony Tang |
| Bez Toosi | Detection of skin cancer lesions with rapid Raman scanning apparatus in comparison to Raman single probedetection | Dr. David McLean |
| Darryl Wan | Autonomic dysreflexia in patients with chronic spinal cord injury: an evaluation of socio-economic impact and quality of care in the emergency room | Dr. Andrei Krassioukov |
| Charlie Zhang | Impact of aortic prosthesis-patient mismatch on survival in patients of the AVERT trial | Dr. Eric Jamieson |
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