2020 Research Trainee award recipients

The MSFHR Research Trainee Program supports health researchers in the training phase of their research career to enable career development and the long-term success of the BC health research landscape.

MSFHR is pleased to name 43 exceptional BC health researchers as 2020 Research Trainee award recipients in areas ranging from artificial intelligence in breast cancer screening, mental health in immigrant and refugee children, substance use harm reduction, and vaccine education for midwifery clients.

Researcher	Project title	Research Pillar	Research location
Narlon Cassio Boa Sorte Silva	Resisting Vascular Cognitive Impairment: The Effects Of Resistance Training On Myelin And Blood-Based Biomarkers Of Neuroplasticity In Older Adults Co-funded with Pacific Alzheimer Research Foundation	Clinical	University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus
Gaetano Calabrese	Unraveling client selectivity and pattern recognition of J-Protein chaperones involved in preventing intracellular aggregation of polyglutamine peptides	Biomedical	University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus
Sara Chadwick	Identifying Complex Associations between Biomedical HIV Treatment and Prevention Strategies, Condom Use Behaviors, and STIs in Gay, Bisexual, and other Men who have Sex with Men	Population Health	University of Victoria
Elizabeth Dao	Role of myelin pathology in vascular cognitive impairment	Clinical	University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus
Travis De Wolfe	The interplay between inflammatory bowel disease and Clostridioides difficile co-occurrence and the pediatric gastrointestinal microbiome	Clinical	University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus
Rachel Eddy	Ventilation Heterogeneity in Asthma, COPD and Asthma-COPD Overlap: Oscillometry and Pulmonary MRI Co-funded with St. Paul's Foundation - Centre for Heart Lung Innovation at Providence Health Care Research Institute	Biomedical	University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus
Allison Ezzat	Using electronic medical record data and patient reported outcome measures to improve the early identification and management of knee osteoarthritis in Canadian primary care	Health Services	University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus
Alessandro Franciosi	Refining the approach to Cystic Fibrosis Pulmonary Exacerbations - modelling data to improve assessment and predict etiology.	Clinical	University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus
Yanusa Garba	Understanding adaptability in egg-laying behavior in Aedes aegypti	Biomedical	University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus
Francesco Gentile	Artificial Intelligence Based Discovery of Estrogen Receptor Activation Function 2 (AF2) Inhibitors as the First-In-Class Therapies for Drug Resistant Breast Cancers	Biomedical	University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus
Pierre-André Gilormini	Genome-wide screen to identify genetic modulators of glucocerebrosidase activity Co-funded with Pacific Parkinson's Research Institute	Biomedical	Simon Fraser University
Sarah Grasedieck	Vitamin C-induced epigenomic remodeling as a preventive therapy for leukemic transformation Co-funded with Lotte & John Hecht Memorial Foundation	Biomedical	University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus
Claire Hales	Using computational modeling to investigate the cognitive processes underlying behaviors related to gambling disorder in rats	Biomedical	University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus
Chido Hambira	Development of Novel Alpha-amanitin Analogs for Targeted Cancer Chemotherapy	Biomedical	University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus
Illiassou Hamidou Soumana	Effect of Diesel Exhaust on the Respiratory Microbiome in COPD Airways	Biomedical	University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus
Femke Hoekstra	Understanding counsellor-client interactions in spinal cord injury exercise counselling: a novel method to explain outcomes of randomized controlled trials by assessing intervention fidelity	Population Health	University of British Columbia – Okanagan Campus
Pierre Hofvander	Characterization of Pathogenic Chromatin States in Synovial Sarcoma	Biomedical	University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus
Ryan Hoiland	A novel strategy to mitigate secondary hypoxic injury following traumatic spinal cord injury through the augmentation of local microvascular oxygen supply	Biomedical	University of British Columbia – Okanagan Campus
Elizabeth King	Severity and Treatment of Menopausal Symptoms in Women Living with HIV	Clinical	University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus
Sarah Kraeutner	Modifying brain activity on an individual basis to improve recovery after stroke	Clinical	University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus
Jessica Küpper	Bone Marrow Lesions in Osteoarthritis and Their Relation to Cartilage Contact and Stresses	Clinical	University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus
Céline Laumont	B cells: new players in the immune response to cancer	Biomedical	BC Cancer – Deely Research Centre
Alison Li	Developing novel therapeutic targets to treat arrhythmia-causing ryanodine receptor variants in the heart	Biomedical	University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus
James Mackay	Exploring Altered Cortical Activity Dynamics in Huntington’s Disease	Biomedical	University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus
Sandra Marquis	Using population-level administrative data to study the health of youth with developmental disabilities transitioning to adult services	Population Health	University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus
Shabnam Massah	Characterization of Gli proteins as a novel therapeutic target in prostate and breast cancer.	Biomedical	University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus
Jane McCall	Harm Reduction into Action: Supporting Nurses to Provide Culturally Safe Care with a Harm Reduction Lens to People who use Drugs	Health Services	University of Victoria
Elisabeth McClymont	Viral Determinants of Natural Human Cytomegalovirus Transmission	Biomedical	University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus
Mia Mclean	Evolving Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms in Children Born Very Preterm: Brain, Stress Regulation and Parenting	Clinical	University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus
Neel Mehta	Redevelopment and Optimization of an Adeno-Associated Virus Gene Therapy Product for the Treatment of Lipoprotein Lipase Deficiency	Biomedical	BC Children's Hospital - Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics
Daniel Peach	From genes to ecology: The current and future distribution of arbovirus vectors in BC	Population Health	University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus
Wendy Pringle	Understanding the challenges and opportunities in communicating vaccine risks and benefits to midwifery clients Co-funded with BC Children's Hospital Research Institute	Health Services	University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus
Mónica Romera Hernández	Don't let ILC3s take your breath away	Biomedical	University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus
Isaac Rosado Sanchez	Engineering the design of regulatory T cell therapy in transplantation	Biomedical	University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus
Larissa Rossen	Feeding patterns, nutrient status, and neurocognitive development in toddlers 18-24 months of age: A Randomised Control Trial	Clinical	University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus
Vanessa Sloan Morgan	Inheritors of the Future: Community-Driven Voices of Youth Contemplating Health and Wellbeing in Indigenous and Northern Geographies of British Columbia	Population Health	University of Northern British Columbia
Kimberly Thomson	Promoting mental health in immigrant, refugee, and non-immigrant children: A British Columbia intergenerational population cohort study Co-funded with Centre for Health Evaluation & Outcome Sciences (CHÉOS) at Providence Health Care Research Institute	Population Health	University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus
Joshua Tremblay	Evolutionary mismatch: a cause of cardiovascular disease in industrialized societies?	Biomedical	University of British Columbia – Okanagan Campus
Haley Vecchiarelli	The Role of Microglia in Chronic Stress-Induced Cognitive Impairment	Biomedical	University of Victoria
Menghua Wang	Targeted isolation and identification of N-N bond-containing bioactive molecules from bacteria	Biomedical	University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus
Mei-Ling Wiedmeyer	Determinants of sexual and reproductive health care for im/migrant women: a community-based mixed methods study to realize comprehensive primary care in BC.	Health Services	Simon Fraser University
Alyson Wong	Connecting clinical research and economic evaluation by mapping lung function to EQ-5D-5L in patients with interstitial lung disease Co-funded with St. Paul's Foundation - Centre for Heart Lung Innovation at Providence Health Care Research Institute	Health Services	University of British Columbia – Vancouver Campus
Xining Yang	Modulating microRNA-193a expression levels as a treatment for acute myeloid leukemia (AML)	Biomedical	BC Cancer – Terry Fox Laboratory

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