Our Grad Students beat the clock and the competition

May 16

With only three minutes to sum up their complex research projects, Schulich Medicine & Dentistry’s Graduate Students took home top honours at a brand new University-wide event.
Second-place winner Fuli Xiang presented her thesis, "Mending the broken heart by attracting stem cells,” and third-place winner Yin Liu spoke about his work in a talk titled, “NOing the heart.” Both students work in the lab of Qingping Feng.
This year’s competition – the first for Western - drew more than 74 students from across all program areas. The Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry was proudly represented by more than a dozen talented students.  After this year’s success, the organizers plan to make the 3MT at Western an annual event. (read more)

Telomeres & Genome Integrity Symposium a great success

May 14

Western held the 1st Canadian Symposium on Telomeres & Genome Integrity last week with great success!.  For this three day conference, we had over 100 registrants from various institutions across Canada who came to Western to see 24 session talks, 50 poster presentations and three keynote addresses from Drs. Susan Smith (Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine (NYU)), John Petrini (Memorial Sloan-Ketteriing Cancer Center) and Brian Luke (ZMBH, Universität Heidelberg).  Our very own, Lida Radan (MSc. student, BETTS Lab, Physiology and Pharmacology) won Best Trainee Poster presentation.  Congratulations!

Award winning trainees

May 10

Congratulations to our grad student and post doc award winners at the 10th Annual Paul Harding Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research Awards Day.

Poster Presentation:
Christine Bell (Supervisor: Andrew Watson), 1st place
Andrew Revesz (Supervisor: Dan Hardy), 2nd place

Oral Competition (Graduate Student):
Noelle Ma (Supervisor: Dan Hardy), 1st place

Oral Competition (Fellow):
Paul Dyce (Supervisor: Jerry Kidder), 1st place

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