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Meet the winners of NMIN’s 2022 Graduate Awards

The NanoMedicines Innovation Network (NMIN) is pleased to announce the 15 recipients of the its 2022 Masters- and Doctoral-level Graduate Awards. Recipients hail from seven universities in five provinces.

The goal of NMIN Graduate Awards is to enable exceptional students to pursue nanomedicine academic research training with Canadian experts. Doctoral awards provide a stipend of $30,000 a year for up to two years; Master’s awards provide a one-year stipend of up to $17,500.

The 2022 NMIN Graduate Award recipients are:

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  • Abdulaziz Alhussan (PhD award), University of Victoria, supervisor: Dr. Devika Chithrani
  • Amélie Baron (MSc award), Polytechnique Montréal, supervisor: Dr. Michel Meunier
  • Nuthan Vikas Bathula (PhD award), University of British Columbia, supervisor: Dr. Anna Blakney
  • Juliana de Andrade Bolsoni (MSc award), University of British Columbia, supervisor: Dr. Sarah Hedtrich
  • Po-Han Chao (PhD award), University of British Columbia, supervisor: Dr. Shyh-Dar Li

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  • Joshua Joseph Friesen (MSc award), University of British Columbia, supervisor: Dr. Anna Blakney
  • Pardis Kazemian (MSc award), University of British Columbia, supervisor: Dr. Blair Leavitt
  • Vanessa Yen Cheng Li (PhD award), University of Toronto, supervisor: Dr. Warren Chan
  • Tavonga Mandava (MSc award), University of Saskatchewan, supervisor: Dr. Ellen Wasan
  • Madelaine Robertson (PhD award), University of British Columbia, supervisor: Dr. Pieter Cullis

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  • Isobel Tetreau (MSc award), University of Alberta, supervisors: Drs Andrew Martin and Reinhard Vehring
  • Sarah Thomson (PhD award), University of British Columbia, supervisor: Dr. Blair Leavitt
  • Michael Valic (PhD award), University of Toronto, supervisor: Dr. Gang Zheng
  • Courtney van Ballegooie (PhD award), University of British Columbia, supervisor: Dr. Marcel Bally
  • Ethan Watt (MSc award), University of Waterloo, supervisor: Dr. Emmanuel Ho