Awardees
Awards in 2022-23
Trainee Awardees
Wendy Xu | Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship |
Isha Ralhan | Sir Frederick Banting and Dr. Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral (CIHR) |
Emily Berg | Alberta Diabetes Institute Studentship |
Jichien Zhu | Chinese Scholarship Council PhD studentship (2022-2026) |
Razoan Alrimon | University of Alberta Graduate Entrance Scholarship |
Tara Janes |
CIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022-2025) |
Mantash Grewal |
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry 75th Anniversary Award |
Boyan Vasilev |
University of Alberta Graduate Recruitment Scholarship 46th Annual Canadian Lipoprotein Conference / 2022 Canadian Vascular & Lipid Summit - Winner of a best poster presentation in the MSc student categoryAlberta Innovates Health Solutions Summer Studentship |
Hellen da Silva |
Mitacs Globalink Graduate Fellowship Award |
Zoe Qinyi Xu | Chinese Scholarship Council PhD studentship (2022-2026) |
Lillian Wanyi Fang | Chinese Scholarship Council PhD studentship (2022-2026) |
Yuzi Wang | Chinese Scholarship Council PhD studentship (2022-2026) |
Rui Cai |
The Hospital for Sick Children Restracomp Fellowship |
Vivian Biancardi |
First Author of Top Cited Article 2020-2021 in The Journal of Comparative Neurology (JCN): “Mapping of the excitatory, inhibitory, and modulatory afferent projections to the anatomically defined active expiratory oscillator in adult male rats”, 2020. doi: 10.1002/cne.24984.2021-22 |
Faculty Awardees
David Olson |
NSERC Lab2Market Assessment Grant |
Maria Ioannou | Canada Research Chair Tier 2 |
Gregory D Funk | 2023 Julius H. Comroe, Jr. Distinguished Lectureship of the American Physiological Society Respiration Section |
Awards in 2021
Trainee Awardees
Stephany Zani |
Keystone Symposium Scholarship Sir Frederick Banting and Dr. Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral (CIHR) CIHR Canada Graduate Scholarships – Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement University of Alberta President’s Doctoral Prize of Distinction |
Julie Jacquemyn | 2021 Dr. Rowland and Muriel Haryett Neuroscience Fellowship |
Yingxi Li | Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship |
Isha Ralhan | Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship |
Vivian Biancardi |
Dr. Rowland and Muriel Haryett Neuroscience Fellowship Award - Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute (NMHI) |
Annette Pisanski | Dick Stein Award for Best Dept. of Physiology Paper from 2020 |
Mantash Grewal | Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship |
Miguel Cardoso | Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry 75th Anniversary Award |
Hellen da Silva |
University of Alberta Master’s Entrance Scholarship - Thesis-Based Alberta Diabetes Institute Research Day - Best Junior Presentation |
Rui Cai |
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry Med Star Award Graduate Student Peter Pang Award |
Robert Reklow |
APS Respiration Section Trainee Poster Presentation Award |
Faculty Awardees
Silvia Pagliardini | NSERC Discovery Grant (2021-2026) |
David Olson | Honorary Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa), University of Lethbridge |
Maria Ioannou |
Sloan Fellow in Neuroscience Heart and Stroke National New Investigator Henry J. M. Barnett Scholarship |
Awards in 2020
Trainee Awardees
Nayara Antunes Lopes | Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship |
Isha Ralhan | SynAD Training Award |
Tolga Kilin | Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship |
Midhat Rizvi |
Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship Sir Frederick Banting and Dr. Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master’s (CIHR) Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry 75th Anniversary Award |
Stephany Zani |
Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship Alberta Diabetes Institute Research Day Best Oral Presentation Alberta Diabetes Institute Graduate Studentship Award University of Alberta Graduate Teaching Award |
Tara Janes | Canadian Lung Association PDF |
Sara Lind Jepsen |
Independent Research Fund Denmark (Danish Diabetes Academy) International Postdoctoral Grant |
Miriam Bernecker | Helmholtz Diabetes Research Centre - Alberta Diabetes Institute Graduate Scholarship |
Xiong Liu | Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship |
Vivan Biancardi |
Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry. Med Star Postdoctoral Award for the publication “Mapping of the excitatory and inhibitory and modulatory afferent projections to the anatomically defined active expiratory oscillator in adult male rats”. J Comp Neurol. 2020. doi: 10.1002/cne.24984.
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Robert Reklow |
Richard B. Stein Physiology Graduate Studentship |
Faculty Awardees
Silvia Pagliardini |
Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Cannabis Research in Priority Areas - Team Grant (Project Leader) Women and Children Health Research Institute (WCHRI) Innovation Grant Canadian Lung Association- National Grant Review (NGR)/Grant-in-Aid (GIA) |
Emmanuelle Cordat |
CIHR Project Grant Kidney Health Research Grant, Kidney Foundation of Canada Women and Children’s Health Research Institute Biomedical Research Grant |
David Olson |
CIHR Commercialization Grant CIHR Project Grant Worldwide Universities Network Special Grant on Research Needs from COVID-19 |
Maria Ioannou |
Canadian Institutes of Health Research Project Grant |
Awards in 2019 and earlier
Trainee Awardees
Stephany Zani |
Department of Physiology Research Day Best Oral Presentation Department of Physiology Travel Award Natural Health Products Society Conference Travel Award Canadian Physiology Society Excellence Award Alberta Diabetes Institute Travel Award University of Alberta Graduate Fellowship Award |
Nayara Antunes Lopes | 11th World DOHaD Congress Travel Prize |
Kelycia Leimer | Dick Stein Award for Best Dept. of Physiology Paper from 2018 |
Isha Ralhan | Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry 75th Anniversary Award |
Mei Hu | Chinese Scholarship Council (2017-2021) |
Annette Pisanski |
Sir Frederick Banting and Dr. Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master’s (CIHR) Canada Lung Association BOA Studentship |
Brandon Hauer | Sir Frederick Banting and Dr. Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master’s (CIHR) |
Jasmeen Saini | Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry 75th Anniversary Award |
Vivian Biancardi |
Women and Children’s Health Research Institute Postdoctoral Scholarship 3rd Place Poster Presentation Postdoctoral Fellow at Women and Children’s Health Research Institute (WCHRI) Research Day |
Emilie Beaulieu-Bayne |
7th Annual Canadian Neuroscience Neurometabolic Club Meeting - Best Oral Abstract in the MSc Student Category Sir Frederick Banting and Dr. Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master’s (CIHR) Walter H. Johns’ Graduate Fellowship |
Miguel Cardoso | 44th Annual Canadian Lipoprotein Conference / 2019 Canadian Vascular & Lipid Summit - Winner of a best oral presentation in the graduate student category |
Xiong Liu | Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry 75th Anniversary Award |
Rui Cai |
Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarship Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry Dean’s Doctoral Award Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry 75th Anniversary Award |
Robert Reklow |
Women and Children’s Health Research Institute Graduate Studentship
Government of Alberta Graduate Citizenship Award 1st Place Ph.D. Poster Presentation – WCHRI Research Day Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Studentship – PhD Level University of Alberta Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship Honorary Presentation Award - 26th Physiology Research Day |
Faculty Awardees
Silvia Pagliardini |
Canadian Institutes of Health Research Project Grant |
David Olson |
CIHR Project Grant March of Dimes Conference Grant TEC Edmonton Innovation Award |
Maria Ioannou | NSERC Discovery Grant |
Jessica Yue | Canada Research Chair Tier 2 in Brain Regulation of Metabolism |
Gregory D Funk |
2018 Killam Excellence in Mentoring Award, University of Alberta 2017 Elected as Chair, Respiration Section of the American Physiological Society |