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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 |
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| 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 | Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ |
| Aiden M. Sababi | Hamed Najafabadi | CSA-FM: A Cell-State-Aware Foundation Model for Human mRNA Processing | Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ |
| 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 | Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ |
| Tong (George) Wang | Maria Vera Ugalde | Transcripts in turmoil: Imaging heat shock protein mRNA dynamics and RNA condensates to understand cellular recovery from stress | Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ |
| Fang Cheng Wong | Janusz Rak | Extracellular vesicle (EV) RNA therapeutics for endothelial reprogramming and immunotherapy in glioblastoma | Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ |
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