The D2R | DNA to RNA Master’s and Doctoral Scholar Awards both financially support excellent graduate students and provide them with leading-edge interdisciplinary and intersectoral training through the D2R Training Program. This 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.
| AWARDED TRAINEE | RESEARCH SUPERVISOR | PROJECT TITLE | INSTITUTION | LEVEL OF STUDY |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Jiayao Gu |
Yue Li |
mirLM - Large Language Model for mircoRNA Sequence Modeling |
McGill | Master's |
|
Hedieh Hashemi |
Selena Sagan |
A twist in the tail: optimizing mRNA termini for enhanced protein production |
UBC | Master's |
|
Abril Ixchel Munoz Zuniga |
Taha Azad |
Enhancing Self-Amplifying RNA Therapeutics by Modulating Innate Immunity in Cancer |
UdeS | Master's |
|
Trinh Orszag |
Ciriaco Piccirillo |
Investigating the impact of IPEX-associated FOXP3 mutations on Treg development in artificial thymic organoid systems |
McGill | Master's |
|
Mohan Krishna Redlapalle |
Lysanne Campeau |
Spatial Transcriptomic-Proteomic Profiling in Bladder Cancer |
McGill | Master's |
|
Gaelle Akiki |
Basile Tessier-Cloutier |
Uncovering diagnostic biomarkers for dedifferentiated endometrial carcinomas through in-depth molecular characterization to inform future RNA-based therapeutic strategies |
McGill | Doctoral |
|
Caitlin Atkinson |
Benoit Gentil |
Conversion of Gene Therapy into RNA Therapy Using a Novel Nanoparticle System |
McGill | Doctoral |
|
Dan Boghici |
Silvia Vidal |
Optimizing alphavirus-derived self-amplifying mRNA vaccines in a mouse model of orthopoxvirus infection |
McGill | Doctoral |
|
Kathleen Bornais |
Guy Rouleau |
Single-nucleus transcriptomic profiling of the anterior cingulate cortex in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia |
McGill | Doctoral |
|
Júlia Jié Cabré Romans |
Raquel Cuella Martin |
Exploring therapeutic opportunities for Leigh Syndrome, French Canadian |
McGill | Doctoral |
|
Michael Cunningham |
Masad Damha |
RNA Analogues for Enhanced CRISPR-Cas12a Gene Editing |
McGill | Doctoral |
|
Emma Groenwold |
Masad Damha |
Nucleic acids-based therapeutics to block USP15-driven neuroinflammation in neurodegenerative diseases |
McGill | Doctoral |
|
Ekkanat Jiramongkolsiri |
Sidong Huang |
A Circular RNA Platform Targeting Oncogenic RNA-Binding Proteins |
McGill | Doctoral |
|
Benjamin Kaufman |
Claude Bherer |
The Population Genetics of the Canadian Jewish Diaspora |
McGill | Doctoral |
|
Zumama Khalid |
Taha Azad |
Improving RNA-Based Therapies for Cancer and Infectious Diseases |
UdeS | Doctoral |
|
Yu Cheng Lin |
Wei-Hsiang Huang |
Targeted RNA therapy to restore balanced protein levels in neurogenetic diseases |
McGill | Doctoral |
|
Diego Loggia |
Terence Hébert |
Evaluating nucleic acid therapeutics for dilated cardiomyopathy in an iPSC-based model |
McGill | Doctoral |
|
Vishvak Raghavan |
Yue Li |
Spatiotemporal Trajectory Inference from Single-cell Data Using Neural Optimal Transport |
McGill | Doctoral |
|
Ibrahim Soumana Adamou |
Karine Choquet |
Décrypter la relation entre l’ordre d’épissage et l’épissage alternatif pour optimiser les thérapies à base d'ARN pour les maladies musculaires rares |
UdeS | Doctoral |
|
Evelyn Zavacky |
Nancy Braverman |
From Imbalance to Equilibrium: Antisense Oligonucleotide Therapy Targeting Allelic Expression in PEX6 Zellweger Spectrum Disorder |
McGill | Doctoral |
|
Yijie Zhang |
Mathieu Blanchette |
GFlowNet-based mRNA Sequence Design |
McGill | Doctoral |
|
Thomas Zheng |
Sirui Zhou |
Multi-system metabolomic age gap to dissect long COVID-related health outcomes |
McGill | Doctoral |
