2024 Oncology Summer Student Research

Another successful year of summer student research has wrapped up in the department of Oncology. Thirty four summer students completed projects, of which 25 were presented through noon hour seminars this August.

  • 20 August 2024
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2nd place winner Emily Liu, with supervisor Dr. Spencer Gibson

Another successful year of summer student research has wrapped up in the department of Oncology. Thirty four summer students completed projects, of which 25 were presented through noon hour seminars this August. We congratulate the three finalists and runners up:

1st place: Noah Wood (Hendzel lab)
2nd place: Emily Liu (Gibson lab)
3rd place: Danna Hristova (Chan lab)

Honorable mentions:
Cecilia Bernier (Godbout/Lemieux lab)
Marie Lauf (Chan lab)
Saron Gebremarium (Weinfeld/Chan lab)
Emma Pilgrim (Underhill lab)
Taylor Holtom (Baker lab)
Tri Nguyen (De Zanche lab)
Siwon Choi (Baker lab)
Iain Marchi (Yahya lab)

We thank Dr. Gordon Chan and Dr. Kristi Baker for organizing, and also thank all the supervisors, students, lab members, and presentation judges who shared their time and efforts to make this a success.

We also gratefully acknowledge the summer student funding sources:
AI SRS - Alberta Innovates – Summer Research Studentship
ACF - Alberta Cancer Foundation
CRINA – Cancer Research Institute of Northern Alberta
JR Paine - J R Paine Summer Research Award in Prostate Cancer
NSERC USRA - Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Undergraduate Student Research Award
Office of the Provost and VP (Academic) Summer Studentship Award (FoMD)
WCHRI – Women & Children’s Health Research Institute