Med Star Award for Fellows Winners
The Med Star Award for Post-doctoral or Clinical Fellows recognizes research contributions of fellows at the University of Alberta. The award can be awarded every four months to eligible trainees.
March 2024
Dr. Matthew Martens
Circulation Research
Reactive Oxygen Species Modulator 1 Plays an Obligate Role in Cardiomyocyte Hypertrophy
November 2023
Dr. Ibrahim Adam
Transplantation
Sex, T Cells, and the Microbiome in Natural ABO Antibody Production in Mice
July 2023
Dr. Bibin Anand
Dr. Qi Wu
Dr. Govindarajan Karthivashan
Bioactive Materials
Significance of native PLGA nanoparticles in the treatment of Alzheimer’s
disease pathology
March 2023
Dr. Ana Teresa Limon-Miro
Journal of Heptalogy
Predicted estimates of resting energy expenditure have limited clinical utility in patients with cirrhosis
March 2022
Dr. Kezhou Wu
NPJ Regenerative Medicine
Vitrification of particulated articular cartilage via calculated protocols
November 2021
Dr. Ruiqi Cai
Communications Biology
Auto-inhibitory intramolecular S5/S6 interaction in the TRPV6 channel regulates breast cancer cell migration and invasion
July 2021
Dr. Shawn Lamothe
eLife
Control of Slc7a5 sensitivity by the voltage-sensing domain of Kv1 channels
March 2021
Dr. Qutuba Karwi
Cardiovascular Diabetology
Insulin directly stimulates mitochondrial glucose oxidation in the heart
November 2020
Dr. Vivian Biancardi
Journal of Comparative Neurology
Mapping of the excitatory, inhibitory, and modulatory afferent projections to the anatomically defined active expiratory oscillator in adult male rats
July 2020
Dr. Michael Jewer
Nature
Translational control of breast cancer plasticity
Dr. Hanyong Peng
ACS Nano
A Genome-Editing Nanomachine Constructed with a Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats System and Activated by Near-Infrared Illumination
November 2019
Dr. Daniel Limonta
Journal of Infectious Diseases
Fibroblast Growth Factor 2 Enhances Zika Virus Infection in Human Fetal Brain
July 2019
Dr. Qutuba Karwi
Cardiovascular Diabetology
Targeting the glucagon receptor improves cardiac function and enhances insulin sensitivity following a myocardial infarction
March 2019
No competition
November 2018
Dr. Maryam Ebadi
Journal of Hepatology
Low subcutaneous adiposity associates with higher mortality in female patients with cirrhosis
July 2018
Dr. Mohammad Ali
Cell Reports
RYBP Is a K63-Ubiquitin-Chain-Binding Protein that Inhibits Homologous Recombination Repair
November 2017
Dr. Andrew Pepper
Stem Cell Reports
Transplantation of Human Pancreatic Endoderm Cells Reverses Diabetes Post Transplantation in a Prevascularized Subcutaneous Site
July 2017
Dr. Hanyong Peng
Nature Communications
A microRNA-initiated DNAzyme motor operating in living cells
March 2017
Drs. Rania Soudy & Aarti Patel
Alzheimer's & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Inventions
Cyclic AC253, a novel amylin receptor antagonist, improves cognitive deficits in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease
November 2016
Dr. Ester Vazquez-Fernandez
PLOS Pathogens
The Structural Architecture of an Infectious Mammalian Prion Using Electron Cryomicroscopy
Dr. Lucas Cairo
Cell Reports
The Nuclear Transport Factor Kap121 is Required for Stability of the Dam1 Complex and Mitotic Kinetochore Bi-orientation
July 1 2016
Dr. Alison Care
Hypertension
Perinatal Resveratrol Supplementation to Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat Dams Mitigates the Development of Hypertention in Adult Offspring
March 1 2016
Dr. Ann Revill
eLife
Dbx1 precursor cells are a source of inspiratory XII premotoneurons
November 2015
Dr. Mourad Ferdaoussi
Journal of Clinical Investigation
Isocitrate-to-SENP1 signaling amplifies insulin secretion and rescues dysfunctional β cells
July 2015
Dr. Andrew Pepper
Nature Biotechnology
A prevascularized subcutaneous device-less site for islet and cellular transplantation
March 2015
Dr. Curtis French
Journal of Clinical Investigation
Mutagion of FOXC1 and PITX2 induces cerebral small-vessel disease
November 2014
Dr. Gopinath Sutendra
Cell
A Nuclear Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex Is Important for the Generation of Acetyl-CoA and Histone Acetylation
Nature Chemical Biology
Insights into mucopolysaccharidosis I from the structure and action of
α-L-iduronidase
Dr. Charles Mays
Journal of Clinical Investigation
Prion disease tempo determined by host-dependent substrate reduction
November 2013
Dr. Georg Schmölzer
BMJ (British Medical Journal)
Non-invasive versus invasive respiratory support in preterm infants at birth: systemic review and meta-analysis
June 2013
Dr. Matthew Schellenberg and Dr. Tao Wu
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
A conformational switch in PRP8 mediates metal ion coordination that promotes pre-mRNA exon ligation
March 2013
Dr. Jihong Lian
Hepatology
Liver Specific Inactivation of Carboxylesterase 3/Triacylglycerol Hydrolase Decreases Blood Lipids Without Causing Severe Steatosis in Mice
November 2012
Dr. Silva Pagliardini
Journal of Neuroscience
State-Dependent Modulation of Breathing in Urethane-Anesthetized Rats
July 2012
Dr. Yohannes Haile
Journal of Immunology
Granule-Derived Granzyme B Mediates the Vulnerability of Human Neurons to T Cell-Induced Neurotoxicity
March 2012
Dr. Arul Vadivel
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Critical Role of the Axonal Guidance Cute EphrinB2 in lung Growth, Angiogenesis, and Repair
December 2011
Dr. Matthew Schellenberg
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Recognition and maturation of effector RNAs in a CRSPR interference pathway
July 2011
Dr. Aminu Bello
Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
Associations among Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate, Proteinuria, and adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes
March 2011
Dr. Samuel Szeto
Journal of Proteome
Mutations in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Succinate Dehydrogenase Result in Distinct Metabolic Phenotypes Revealed Through 1H NMR-Based Metabolic Footprinting
November 2010
Dr. Vittorio Maglione
Journal of Neurosciences
Impaired Ganglioside Metabolism in Huntington's Disease and Neuroprotective Role of GM1
March 2010
Dr. Andrei Fagarasanu
Journal of Cell Biology
Myosin-driven peroxisome partitioning in S. cerevisiae
June 2009
Dr. Pascal Gelebart
Blood
Constitutive activation of the Wnt canonical pathway in mantle cell lymphoma
December 2008
Dr. Qiang Zhao
Analytical Chemistry
Aptamer-Modified Monolithic Capillary Chromatography for Protein Separation and Detection