Antonio Strafella appointed Secretary by the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences' Board Executive
Husam Abdel-Qadir appointed Hold’em for Life Early Career Professorship in Cancer Research 1 by the Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Awards
Division of Cardiology
Husam Abdel-Qadir, 2023-2024 Foundations Faculty Teaching Award for Health Science Research (HRS), Peters-Boyd Academy, University of Toronto and $100,000 in funding for The Judicious Surveillance for Trastuzumab Induced Cardiotoxicity in the First Year (JUSTIFY) Randomized Control Trial, CIHR Spring 2024 Project Grant Competition
Shadi Akhtari, Teaching Award of Excellence in undergraduate medical education for the 2022-2023 academic year, MD Program, University of Toronto
Oluwatosin Osuntokun, Young Clinician Award, Women's College Hospital Department of Medicine
Division of Dermatology
Aaron Drucker, $229,500 in funding for Comparative efficacy and safety of topical treatments for psoriasis (ranked #1 in the competition), CIHR Spring 2024 Project Grant Competition
Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism
Adrian Lau, 2023-2024 Foundations Faculty Teaching Award for Clinical Skills 1, Peters-Boyd Academy, University of Toronto
Iliana Lega, 2023-2024 Foundations Faculty Teaching Award for Health Science Research (HRS), Peters-Boyd Academy, University of Toronto
Olexandra Koshkina, Teaching Award of Excellence for the 2022-2023 academic year, MD Program, University of Toronto and Young Clinician Award, Women's College Hospital Department of Medicine
Shoba Sujana Kumar, 2023-24 Postgraduate Education Award, Women's College Hospital Department of Medicine
Division of Neurology
Peter Carlen, $120,000 for the project A novel nucleotide therapeutic for the treatment of epilepsy, Ontario Centre of Innovation
Aleksandra Pikula, PiPER Grant 2024, UHN Pride in Patient Engagement in Research (PiPER) Program
Suvendrini Lena, Teaching Award of Excellence in undergraduate medical education for the 2022-2023 academic year, MD Program, University of Toronto
Mary Jane Lim Fat, $787,950 over 5 years for Combining Advanced Metabolic MRI with Genomics to Refine the Treatment Paradigm for Grade 2/3 IDH-wildtype Astrocytoma ("Molecular Glioblastoma"), CIHR Spring 2024 Project Grant Competition and $403,718 over 2 years for Combined Checkpoint Co-blockade in Glioblastoma – a Window of Opportunity Trial, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR)
Raphael Schneider, $100,000 grant for 2023 Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research, Brain Canada Foundation
Division of Respirology
Andrew Kouri and Samir Gupta, PSI Foundation grant
Jakov Moric, Teaching Award of Excellence in undergraduate medical education for the 2022-2023 academic year, MD Program, University of Toronto
Andrea Gershon, Presidential Commendation, American Thoracic Society
Division of Rheumatology
Elizabeth Grigoriadis, Teaching Award of Excellence in undergraduate medical educationfor the 2022-2023 academic year, MD Program, University of Toronto
