Recipient institutions
| Royal Ottawa Hospital – Research Chair in Suicide Prevention | $100,000 |
| Royal Ottawa Hospital – Prize for Mental Health Research. Year 4 winner: Dr. Tracie O. Afifi, University of Manitoba | $100,000 |
| The Ottawa Hospital/Ottawa Hospital Research Institute – From the Military to the Health Care Front | $25,000 |
| Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario – BRAVA project | $75,000 |
| Memorial University of Newfoundland | $25,000 |
| 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 |
| McMaster University | $25,000 |
| University of Western Ontario | $25,000 |
| Northern Ontario School of Medicine | $25,000 |
| University of Saskatchewan | $25,000 |
| University of Alberta | $25,000 |
| University of Calgary | $25,000 |
| University of British Columbia | $25,000 |
Student recipients
Memorial University of Newfoundland
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor(s) |
| Katrina Bartellas | Body image concerns, depression, suicidality and psychopharmacological changes in post-operative variatric surgery patients: a review and mixed-methods study | Dr. Chris Smith |
| Katie Bennett | Assessment of sexual health after pelvic radiotherapy with cancer of the rectum or anal canal treated | Dr. Teri Stuckless |
| Jayne Flynn | The role of candidate tumour suppressors ZNF132 and ZNF154 in oral squamous cell carcinoma | Dr. Tom Belbin |
| Melissa O’Brien | Cardiac outcomes in women with metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer | Dr. Melanie Seal |
| Vanessa Pickard | Recognition and response to a perioperative myocardial infarction, following a non-cardiac surgery, by a medical clerk | Dr. Gillian Sheppard |
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Université Laval
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Philippe Cadieux | Personalized radionuclide therapy of neuroendocrine tumours | Dr. Jean-Mathieu Beauregard |
| Maxime Drolet | 4E (extreme exercise and energy expenditure) | Dr. Jean-Pierre Despres |
| Katherine Gagnon-Labelle | CARIPP (carE FOR Indigenous Poisoned Patients) – soins auz patients autochtones empoisonnés | Dr. Maude St-Onge |
| Catherine Lepage | Using a portable monitoring device to increase motivation for physical activity in patients with type 2 diabetes | Dr. Caroline Rheaume |
| Joanie Melancon | Stress factors and pregnancy-related complications | Dr. Caroline Rheaume |
| Amina Ouali | Polypharmacie chez les aînés québécois atteints de MPOC entre 2000 et 2001 | Dr. Caroline Sirois |
| Xavier Roberge | Role of mCSF in a model of demyelinisation induced by cuprisone | Dr. Serge Rivest |
| Marc-Antoine Sylvain-Morneau | Exploration of neural cell dynamics by digital holographic microscopy: towards a better understanding of functional neuroimaging signals | Dr. Pierre Marquet |
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Université de Montréal
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Antoine Bernier | Neuro-immunology of cancer immune surveillance | Dr. Sebastien Talbot |
| Andra Brezai | Rôle de la thrombine dans les cardiomyocytes en presence du ploqueur de P38 MAPK dans un contexte de régénération cardiaque | Dr. Angelo Calderont |
| Karim Lebied | Substrats neurobiologiques de la recompense | Dr. Pierre-Paul Rompre |
| Francis Leblanc | Analyse de la conformation tridimensionnelle des chronosomes de cellules endothéliales suite à un stress inflammatoire | Dr. Guillaume Lettre |
| Mimosa Luigi | The relationship between cannabis and criminality in persons with severe mental illness (SMI): preliminary results from the CANVI study | Dr. Alexandre Dumais |
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McGill University
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Leila Cattelan | Investigating geographic clustering and external triggers for anogenital skin and gastrointestinal cancers in Canada | Dr. Denis Sasseville |
| Sami Chergui | Identification of regulators of leukemic growth in vivo using CRISPR | Dr. Francois Mercier |
| Yibin Dang | Looking at gender and ischemic heart disease in GENESIS PRAXY, VIRGO and EVA cohorts | Dr. Louise Pilote |
| Maria Giannoumis | Effect of an atypical work schedule in alertness and performance levels of police officers on patrol | Dr. Diane Boivin |
| Alonso Gutierrez Salazar | Effect of night shift work on circadian metabolomics profiles | Dr. Nicolas Cermakian |
| Raphaele Harvey | The role of genetic predispositions towards stress reactivity and inflammation on the sickness behaviour syndrome in newly diagnosed head and neck cancer patients | Dr. Melissa Henry |
| Xinyu Ji | Investigating geographic clustering and external triggers for malignant neoplasms of the central nervous system in Canada | Dr. Ivan Litvinov |
| Shermaine Li | Transdermal hormone replacement therapy and the risk of myocardial infarction in postmenopausal women: a systematic review | Dr. Christel Renoux |
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University of Ottawa
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Kira Genise | An innovative approach for the prevention and treatment of mental health disorders in first responders | Dr. Simon Hatcher |
| Michael Gulak | Accuracy of MR perfusion with and without gadolinium at 3T in the diagnosis of patients with suspected recurrent high-grade gliomas | Dr. Thanh Binh Nguyen |
| Leo Kadota | Detection of apoptosis with 99m tc-rh annexin v-128 imaging in patients with early-stage breast cancer receiving doxorubicin-based chemotherapy | Dr. Terrence Ruddy |
| Esther Kyeongmin Lee | Identifying novel vulnerabilities to oncolytic viruses by a genome-wide CRISPR screen | Dr. John Bell |
| Maryam Zaree | Is an increase in dietary potassium for lowering blood pressure feasible? Systematic review of RCTs. | Dr. Swapnil Hiremath |
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Queen’s University
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Jonathan Cook | Prognostic value of cardiac magnetic resonance in angina with non-obstructive coronary artery disease | Dr. Vanessa Ferreira Katrina Gee |
| Stephanie Dobson | Tracing the origins of pediatric b-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia | Dr. John Dick Dr. Faiyaz Notta Katrina Gee |
| Vladyslava Replete | The effect of working memory capacity on reasoning | Dr. Oshin Vartanian Prameet Sheth |
| Katrina Sajewycz | Multidisiplinary ambulatory management of malignant bowel obstruction in gynecologic cancer patients: a qualitative evaluative study | Dr. Sarah Ferguson Peter Davies |
| Sean Tom | Hippocampal mitochondrial dysfunction following forebrain ischemia: exploring sub-regional differences for therapeutic discovery | Dr. Creed Stary Peter Davies |
For further information on the papers from Queen’s University
University of Toronto
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Karanbir Brar | Chromatin determinants of cancer stem cells | Dr. Mathieu Lupien |
| RuiQi Chen | Managing cancer patients in hospital on immunotherapy who develop immune-related adverse or toxic events | Dr. Geoffrey Liu |
| Dion Diep | Evaluation of pharmacogenetic-based decision-support tools in psychiatry | Dr. Daniel Mueller |
| Zhen Fan | Feasibility testing of the Lifeguardrx mobile app to report real-time symptoms and toxicities of cancer patients undergoing systemic and chemotherapy: knowledge translation research | Dr. Geoffrey Liu |
| Megan Hird | Neuroimaging in adolescent bipolar disorder | Dr. Benjamin Goldstein |
| Ortenc Hoxha | A systematic review of the influence of emotion dysregulation on psychosocial treatment outcomes for children with oppositional defiant disorder | Dr. Brendan Andrade |
| Taylor Mehta | The role of family physicians in palliative care: perspectives of patients with advanced cancer | Dr. Camilla Zimmerman |
| Razak Pirani | Clinical outcomes of transcatheter mitral intervention` | Dr. Neil Fan |
| Fahad Manzar Qureshi | A systematic review of broad-spectrum micronutrient formulas for the treatment of psychiatric symptoms | Dr. Barna Konkoly-Thege |
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McMaster University
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Janatani Balakurmaran | Adiposity and depressive symptoms in survivors of childhood brain tumours | Dr. M. Constantine Samaan |
| Adam Eqbal | Development and validation of a convolutional neural network (CNN) for predicting fracture risk in metastatic bone disease | Dr. Michelle Ghert |
| Shu Jua Xu | In vitro characterization of PLAGL2 in the establishment of preleukemic cells | Dr. Kristin Hope |
| Amir Safavi | Investigating the impact of metformin and statin use on clinical outcomes in intermediate risk prostate cancer treated with hypofractionated radiation | Dr. Ian Dayes |
| Emma van Reekum | The breadth of benefit of methadone maintenance treatment: exploring associations between MMT and social functioning in opioid use disorder | Dr. Zena Sumaan |
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University of Western Ontario
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Ting Yi Chang | Discharge to no fixed address v.2 | Dr. Cheryl Forchuk |
| Eric Di Gravio | Preclinical development of novel therapeutics for patients with HPV-positive head and neck cancer | Dr. Anthony Nichols |
| Danning Li | Characterization of stem cells in colon cancer | Dr. Samuelel Astaka |
| Katherine McLaughlin | Integrating wireless tech in patients with acute leukemia, pilot project | Dr. Caroline Hamm |
| Eric Mitchell | Neuroanatomical localization of obsessive-compulsive and hoarding behaviours in frontotemporal dementia | Dr. Elizabeth Finger |
| Neha Sharma | Comprehensive assessment of frailty in an older population undergoing aortic valve replacement | Dr. Neville Suskin |
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Northern Ontario School of Medicine
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Ananya Beruar | Evaluating the impact of nerve growth factor dysregulation in patients with pain and opioid-dependence | Dr. David Marsh |
| Jesse Fontaine | miRNA regulation in hypertension and low-dose radiation models | Dr. T.C. Tai |
| Ocean Nenadov | Phase 1: a chart audit to investigate high-frequency emergency department users, their health demographics for chronic pain and practice patterns of opioid provision | Dr. Bryan MacLeod |
| Chad Prevost | Effect of retinoids on disease progression in a mouse model of myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury | Dr. Alexander Moise |
| Niharika Shahi | Is there any benefit of interventional radiologists performing guided biopsies? | Dr. Radu Rozenberg |
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University of Saskatchewan
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Vibhuti Aggarwal | Comparison of Grastofil versus Neupogen efficacy as used for stem cell mobilization prior to autologous stem cell transplant | Dr. Julie Stakiw |
| Dylan Coupal | The effects of low field magnetic stimulation on white matter deficit related cognitive impairments. | Dr. Yanbo Zhang |
| Caroline Lee | Correlation of copy number alterations with clinical outcome in dual low-grade endometrioid and ovarian endometrioid carcinoma | Dr. Rajni Chibbar |
| Andriy Simko | Low-field magnetic stimulation as a new treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): a preclinical study | Dr. Yanbo Zhang |
| Shaina Templeton | Outcomes of patients with borderline resectable pancreatic cancer treated with combination chemotherapy with or without radiation | Dr. Shahid Ahmed |
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University of Alberta
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Alexandra Malley | The depression priority setting research project | Dr. Lorraine Breault |
| Vivian Nguyen | The depression priority setting research project | Dr. Lorraine Breault |
| Kristin O’Neill | The depression priority setting research project | Dr. Lorriane Breault |
| Brooke Pollock | The depression priority setting research project | Dr. Lorraine Breault |
| Kathleen Xu | The depression priority setting research project | Dr. Lorraine Breault |
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University of Calgary
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Rebecca Hay | Maternal depressive symptoms and structure of the stress network in preschool children | Dr. Catherine Lebel |
| Emma Pillsworth | Characterizing congenital heart disease in Guyana: incidence and barriers to care | Dr. Debra Isaac |
| Graeme Prosperi-Porta | Evaluating the prognostic significance of echocardiography-derived stroke volume in acute pulmonary embolism | Dr. Jason Weatherald |
| Nicholas Riopel | Descriptive study to identify the prevalance of Chagas disease in Guyana | Dr. Debra Isaac |
| James Vallerand | One-mind study: evaluating the efficacy of online mindfully-based cancer receovery during chemotherapy | Dr. Linda Carlson |
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University of British Columbia
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Anna Black | Comparative study of two closure techniques and the impact on short-term outcomes in perineal wounds after abdominoperineal resection (APR) for rectal cancer | Dr. Carl Brown |
| Ghazaleh Kiani | Late effects in adult survivors of childhood lymphoma: overall burden and proportion detected at recall | Dr. Karen Goddard |
| Claire Liu | Risk of malignancy in atypical lobular hyperplasia (ALH), lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS) and flat epithelial atypia (FEA) of the breast | Dr. Elaine McKevitt |
| Cody Lo | Examination of the role of WFS1 in cisplatin-induced ototoxicity of pediatric cancer patients | Dr. Bruce Carleton |
| Ka Kit Jacky Tang | Development and validation of a new approach to assessment of cardiac repolarization in patients with electronic cardiac pacemakers or bundle branch block | Dr. Simon Rabkin |
| Mikayla Wohlleben | Self-injurious behaviours and sensitivity to psychotropic medications in children and adolescents | Dr. Osman Ipsiroglu |
| Si Cong Ye | Association of serum sodium levels with in-hospital outcomes among patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest | Dr. Christopher Fordyce |
| Soo Ning Sara Yeo | The quality and use of online resources for testicular cancer patients | Dr. Paris-Ann Ingledew |
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