Award winning Graduate Students

Congratulations to two PhysPharm graduate students on being honoured for their work.

Henry Dunn (supervisor - Dr. Steve Ferguson) will be awarded the Jonathan & Joshua Memorial Graduate Scholarship. This scholarship is given to a doctoral student who is specializing in the neuroscience of mental health disorders, and is generously made available by Mr. Robert McKinnon.
 
Ashbeel Roy (supervisor - Dr. Marco Prado) will receive the Cobban Student Award in Heart and Stroke Research. Established by Audrey and Delmar Cobban and matched by Robarts Research Institute, this award recognizes doctoral research in the area of heart and stroke disease. (read more)

11th Annual Paul Harding Research Day

Congratulations to our graduate trainee winners at the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology 11th Annual Paul Harding Research Awards Day.

Researchers examine the link between KISS 1 and cancer

Moshmi Bhattacharya, an associate professor in the Departments of Physiology and Pharmacology, and Oncology, and Donna Cvetkovic, a graduate student working in her lab, were surprised to find high levels of kisspeptins in aggressive breast cancers. “We found kisspeptins could turn non-invasive cancer cells into invasive cells, and therefore could be playing a role in the metastasis of breast cancer.”KISS 1 is a metastasis-suppressor gene which helps to prevent the spread of cancers, including melanoma, pancreatic and ovarian cancers to name a few.
The research is published online in the journal Endocrinology. (Read more)

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