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Postdoctoral Scholar Awards

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The D2R | DNA to RNA Postdoctoral Scholar AwardsÌýboth financially support excellent graduate students and provide them with leading-edge interdisciplinary and intersectoral training through the D2R Training Program.ÌýThis program reenforces an integral goal of D2R, to cultivate the next generation of researchers. Being a D2R Scholar is the highest recognition available to D2R trainees and the awards recognize outstanding and active trainees performing research across all of D2R’s Foundational Axes.Ìý

AWARDEE NAME SUPERVISOR PROJECT TITLE INSTITUTION
Samer Girgis Eric Lécuyer Defining the repertoire and impact of cell surface RNA binding proteins in breast cancer IRCM
Ferris Munyonho Dawn Bowdish Impact of initial COVID-19 mRNA vaccine regimen on cellular immune responses and infection risk in old adults McMaster
Natalia Navarro Hanadi Sleiman Silence AML: Targeted DNA Nanostructures for siRNA-Mediated Gene Silencing in Acute Myeloid Leukemia 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ
Aiden M. Sababi Hamed Najafabadi CSA-FM: A Cell-State-Aware Foundation Model for Human mRNA Processing 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ
Peivand Sadat Mousavi John Bell In-vivo engineering of CAR T-cells using self-amplifying RNA platforms uOttawa
Joseph Szymborski Amin Emad Targeted Aptamer Discovery Using Reinforcement Learning with Transformers 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ
Tong (George) Wang Maria Vera Ugalde Transcripts in turmoil: Imaging heat shock protein mRNA dynamics and RNA condensates to understand cellular recovery from stress 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ
Fang Cheng Wong Janusz Rak Extracellular vesicle (EV) RNA therapeutics for endothelial reprogramming and immunotherapy in glioblastoma 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ

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