Hawmid Azzizi, Cristine Reitz, Ritesh Briah and Simone ten Kortenaar.
Four graduate students in the Department of Biomedical Sciences have been received CIHR Master’s Studentship awards from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
“The awards are a testament to the high quality of graduate students we are attracting to our program,” said Dr. Neil MacLusky, chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences.
The recipients are:
• Hawmid Azizi
Advisor: Dr. Bettina Kalisch. Hawmid is studying the molecular pathways involved in Alzheimer’s disease.
• Ritesh Briah
Advisor: Dr. Roger Moorehead. Ritesh is examining the role of Akt inhibitors in lung cancer tumour suppression.
• Cristine Reitz
Advisor: Dr. Tami Martino. Cristine is investigating how circadian rhythm influences adaptive immune response to healing in heart attack patients.
• Simone ten Kortenaar
Advisor: Dr. Jim Petrik. Simone is assessing the effectiveness of a new drug developed to inhibit blood vessel growth and trigger tumour cell death in ovarian cancer.