Awardees

Awards in 2022-23

Trainee Awardees

Wendy Xu Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship
Isha Ralhan Sir Frederick Banting and Dr. Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral (CIHR)
Emily Berg Alberta Diabetes Institute Studentship
Jichien Zhu Chinese Scholarship Council PhD studentship (2022-2026)
Razoan Alrimon University of Alberta Graduate Entrance Scholarship
Tara Janes

CIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022-2025)

Mantash Grewal

Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry 75th Anniversary Award

Boyan Vasilev

University of Alberta Graduate Recruitment Scholarship

46th Annual Canadian Lipoprotein Conference / 2022 Canadian Vascular & Lipid Summit - Winner of a best poster presentation in the MSc student categoryAlberta Innovates Health Solutions Summer Studentship

Hellen da Silva

Mitacs Globalink Graduate Fellowship Award

Zoe Qinyi Xu Chinese Scholarship Council PhD studentship (2022-2026)
Lillian Wanyi Fang Chinese Scholarship Council PhD studentship (2022-2026)
Yuzi Wang Chinese Scholarship Council PhD studentship (2022-2026)
Rui Cai

The Hospital for Sick Children Restracomp Fellowship

Vivian Biancardi

First Author of Top Cited Article 2020-2021 in The Journal of Comparative Neurology (JCN): “Mapping of the excitatory, inhibitory, and modulatory afferent projections to the anatomically defined active expiratory oscillator in adult male rats”, 2020. doi: 10.1002/cne.24984.2021-22

Faculty Awardees

David Olson

NSERC Lab2Market Assessment Grant
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry Tier I Basic Science Mentoring Award

Maria Ioannou Canada Research Chair Tier 2
Gregory D Funk 2023 Julius H. Comroe, Jr. Distinguished Lectureship of the American Physiological Society Respiration Section

 

Awards in 2021

Trainee Awardees

Stephany Zani

Keystone Symposium Scholarship 

Sir Frederick Banting and Dr. Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral (CIHR)

CIHR Canada Graduate Scholarships – Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement

University of Alberta President’s Doctoral Prize of Distinction

Julie Jacquemyn 2021 Dr. Rowland and Muriel Haryett Neuroscience Fellowship
Yingxi Li Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship
Isha Ralhan Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship
Vivian Biancardi

Dr. Rowland and Muriel Haryett Neuroscience Fellowship Award - Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute (NMHI)

Annette Pisanski Dick Stein Award for Best Dept. of Physiology Paper from 2020
Mantash Grewal Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship
Miguel Cardoso Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry 75th Anniversary Award
Hellen da Silva

University of Alberta Master’s Entrance Scholarship - Thesis-Based

Alberta Diabetes Institute Research Day - Best Junior Presentation

Rui Cai

Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry Med Star Award

Graduate Student Peter Pang Award
Robert Reklow

APS Respiration Section Trainee Poster Presentation Award

Faculty Awardees

Silvia Pagliardini NSERC Discovery Grant (2021-2026)
David Olson Honorary Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa), University of Lethbridge
Maria Ioannou

Sloan Fellow in Neuroscience

Heart and Stroke National New Investigator

Henry J. M. Barnett Scholarship

 

Awards in 2020

Trainee Awardees

Nayara Antunes Lopes Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship
Isha Ralhan SynAD Training Award
Tolga Kilin Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship
Midhat Rizvi

Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship

Sir Frederick Banting and Dr. Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master’s (CIHR)

Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry 75th Anniversary Award

Stephany Zani

Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship

Alberta Diabetes Institute Research Day Best Oral Presentation

Alberta Diabetes Institute Graduate Studentship Award

University of Alberta Graduate Teaching Award

Tara Janes Canadian Lung Association PDF
Sara Lind Jepsen

Independent Research Fund Denmark (Danish Diabetes Academy) International Postdoctoral Grant

Miriam Bernecker Helmholtz Diabetes Research Centre - Alberta Diabetes Institute Graduate Scholarship
Xiong Liu Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship
Vivan Biancardi

Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry. Med Star Postdoctoral Award for the publication “Mapping of the excitatory and inhibitory and modulatory afferent projections to the anatomically defined active expiratory oscillator in adult male rats”. J Comp Neurol. 2020. doi: 10.1002/cne.24984.


1st Place Abstract Postdoctoral Fellow at Women and Children’s Health Research Institute (WCHRI) Research Day, Edmonton, AB, Canada, November 4.

Robert Reklow

Richard B. Stein Physiology Graduate Studentship

Faculty Awardees

Silvia Pagliardini

Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Cannabis Research in Priority Areas - Team Grant  (Project Leader)

Women and Children Health Research Institute (WCHRI) Innovation Grant

Canadian Lung Association- National Grant Review (NGR)/Grant-in-Aid (GIA)

Emmanuelle Cordat

CIHR Project Grant

Kidney Health Research Grant, Kidney Foundation of Canada

Women and Children’s Health Research Institute Biomedical Research Grant

David Olson

CIHR Commercialization Grant

CIHR Project Grant

Worldwide Universities Network Special Grant on Research Needs from COVID-19
Maria Ioannou

Canadian Institutes of Health Research Project Grant

 

Awards in 2019 and earlier

Trainee Awardees

Stephany Zani

Department of Physiology Research Day Best Oral Presentation

Department of Physiology Travel Award 

Natural Health Products Society Conference Travel Award Canadian Physiology Society Excellence Award

Alberta Diabetes Institute Travel Award

University of Alberta Graduate Fellowship Award
Nayara Antunes Lopes 11th World DOHaD Congress Travel Prize
Kelycia Leimer Dick Stein Award for Best Dept. of Physiology Paper from 2018
Isha Ralhan Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry 75th Anniversary Award
Mei Hu Chinese Scholarship Council (2017-2021)
Annette Pisanski

Sir Frederick Banting and Dr. Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master’s (CIHR)

Canada Lung Association BOA Studentship

Brandon Hauer Sir Frederick Banting and Dr. Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master’s (CIHR)
Jasmeen Saini Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry 75th Anniversary Award
Vivian Biancardi

Women and Children’s Health Research Institute Postdoctoral Scholarship

3rd Place Poster Presentation Postdoctoral Fellow at Women and Children’s Health Research Institute (WCHRI) Research Day

Emilie Beaulieu-Bayne

7th Annual Canadian Neuroscience Neurometabolic Club Meeting - Best Oral Abstract in the MSc Student Category

Sir Frederick Banting and Dr. Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master’s (CIHR)

Walter H. Johns’ Graduate Fellowship
Miguel Cardoso 44th Annual Canadian Lipoprotein Conference / 2019 Canadian Vascular & Lipid Summit - Winner of a best oral presentation in the graduate student category
Xiong Liu Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry 75th Anniversary Award
Rui Cai

Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarship

Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry Dean’s Doctoral Award

Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry 75th Anniversary Award

Robert Reklow

Women and Children’s Health Research Institute Graduate Studentship


APS Respiration Section Research Recognition Award

Government of Alberta Graduate Citizenship Award

1st Place Ph.D. Poster Presentation – WCHRI Research Day

Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Studentship – PhD Level

University of Alberta Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship

Honorary Presentation Award - 26th Physiology Research Day

Faculty Awardees

Silvia Pagliardini

Canadian Institutes of Health Research Project Grant

David Olson

CIHR Project Grant

March of Dimes Conference Grant

TEC Edmonton Innovation Award
Maria Ioannou NSERC Discovery Grant
Jessica Yue Canada Research Chair Tier 2 in Brain Regulation of Metabolism
Gregory D Funk

2018 Killam Excellence in Mentoring Award, University of Alberta

2017 Elected as Chair, Respiration Section of the American Physiological Society