2026 AMR Centre Studentships and Fellowships
for Collaborative Research

The McGill AMR Centre is pleased to announce the 2026 call for applications to the AMR Collaborative Research Studentship for McGill graduate students (MSc/PhD) and Fellowship for McGill postdoctoral trainees. The goal of this support is to foster collaborative research between members of the AMR Centre by providing partial support for a full-time trainee.

Eligibility: Applicants from all faculties and departments at McGill are eligible to apply. Trainees must be supervised by a member of the AMR Center and be involved in a collaborative project with at least one other AMR Centre principal investigator. Projects must address a topic directly relevant to AMR, with priority given to those that address one of the Centre’s main themes of 1) diagnostics, 2) evolution, surveillance and prevention strategies, or 3) antimicrobial therapeutics and stewardship. Topics may include but are not limited to the epidemiology of AMR and antimicrobial use, mechanisms or evolution of AMR, discovery, development or implementation of new preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic or stewardship approaches.

Value and duration of the award: 10,000 for graduate studentship; $15,000 postdoctoral fellowship for one year (non renewable).

Application Call is now closed. 

2026-2027 Studentship/Fellowship Winners  

Congratulations to six collaborative research studentships awarded to MSc student Brenna Fox under primary supervisor Jesse Shapiro (Natural Resource Sciences) and co-supervisor Dao Nguyen (Medicine); MSc student Kaitlin Wong under primary supervisor Andréanne Lupien (Microbiology & Immunology) and co-supervisor Marcel Behr (Medicine); PhD student Roozbeh Siavash Moakhar under primary supervisor Sara Mahshid (Bioengineering) and co-supervisor Cedric Yansouni (Medicine); PhD student Antoine Moitessier under primary supervisor Maureen McKeague (Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Chemistry) and co-supervisor Nicolas Moitessier (Chemistry); PhD student Isabelle Gurney under primary supervisor Rees Kassen (Biology) and co-supervisor Dao Nguyen (Medicine); and, PhD student Alla Yushchenko under primary supervisor Jennifer Ronholm (Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry/Animal Science) and co-supervisor Dominic Frigon (Civil Engineering).

We are also pleased to announce the collaborative research fellowship awarded to postdoctoral fellow Tamer AbdElSalam AbdElFatah Abdelwahab under primary supervisor Cedric Yansouni (Medicine) and co-supervisor Sara Mahshid (Bioengineering). We look forward to seeing the results at the 2027 Annual Symposium!

2025-2026 Studentship/Fellowship Winners  

Congratulations to three collaborative research studentships awarded to PhD students Tiffany Feng under primary supervisor Lyle Whyte (Natural Resource Sciences) and Jennifer Ronholm primary supervisor (Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry/Animal Science); PhD student Anirudh Mantri under primary supervisor Martin Schmeing (Biochemistry) and co-supervisor Chris Thibodeaux (Chemistry); and, James Iarocci under primary supervisor Shuaiqi Guo (Anatomy and Cell Biology) and co-supervisor Dao Nguyen (Medicine).

We are also pleased to announce the collaborative research fellowship awarded to postdoctoral fellow Chenxiao Liu under primary supervisor Dominic Frigon (Civil Engineering) and co-supervisor Jesse Shapiro (Microbiology & Immunology). We look forward to seeing the results at the 2026 Annual Symposium!
 

2024-2025 Studentship/Fellowship Winners  

Congratulations to two collaborative research studentships awarded to PhD student Sam Nguyen under Jennifer Ronholm primary supervisor (Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry/Animal Science) and co-supervisor Rees Kassen (Biology), and PhD student Sophie Goldman under primary supervisor Dao Nguyen (Medicine) and co-supervisor Ajitha Thanabalsuriar (Pharmacology and Therapeutics).  We are also pleased to announce the collaborative research fellowship awarded to postdoctoral fellow Peter Chen under primary supervisor Jesse Shapiro (Microbiology & Immunology) and co-supervisor Michael Reed (Medicine).