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Cinader Awardees

The Bernhard Cinader award lectureship is given to a Canadian scientist who exemplifies distinguished scientific leadership and accomplishments in Immunology. Recent awardees are as follows:

Recipients of the CSI/Cinader Award

 

Recipient
Lecture title
2010 Christopher Paige
Dancing with the Bees
2009 André Veillette
Signaling in the Immune System: T cells and Beyond
2008
Kent HayGlass What is Normal?
2007 Rafik-Pierre Sékaly Human Immunology: 15 years experience and an eternal challenge
2006 Chris Bleackley Confessions of a Thanatologist
2005 Michael Julius Une Histoire D'Amour
2003 Gillian Wu G.O.D. is in the details: Life forces and the Generation of Diversity
2002 Linda Pilarski Challenging the Status Quo: From Sombreros to Nanobiotechnology
2001 Bhagirath Singh Life before signaling: peptides, microbes, and regulation of autoimmunity
2000 John Schrader Science and Sunday afternoons: P-cells to proteomics
1999 Dean Befus From worms to asthma: the road to little feG
1998 Jack Gauldie From the Chicken to the Egg and with a Virus in Between
1997 Arnold Greenberg The molecular basis of cell mediated cytotoxicity
1996 Peter Bretscher Regulation of the immune response: the significance of quantitative and qualitative signals as physiological signs
1995 Dennis Osmond A B-cell biography: the soil and the seed
1994 Tak Mak And appear to be and appear not to be
1993 Tim Mosmann T-cells and cytokines: why does the immune system have to be so complex
1992 John Bienenstock From there to here
1991 Emil Skamene Experiments of nature and natural resistance
1990 John Roder The ghost of Metchnikov
1989 Rick Miller T cell differentiation
1988 Alec Sehon Tolerogenic derivatives of biologically active antigens for therapeutic intervention
1987 Hardy Cinader Developmental change in the second half of life - challenge and opportunity

John D Reynolds Awardees


This John D. Reynolds award is given for a long term member of the CSI for their exceptional service to CSI. The award can be, but is not necessarily, given each year.

Year
Recipient
 2010 Bhagirth Singh
University of Western Ontario
 

Investigator Awardees

In 2006, CSI created two new award categories, the CSI New Investigator award which is awarded to a member of CSI within ten years from date of PhD (from academics or industry) and has demonstrated excellence or potential excellence in research. The second award is the CSI Investigator award which is awarded to a member of CSI at any stage of their career (from academics or industry) and has demonstrated excellence in research over their career. Recipients to date:

 2010 Dr. Paul Kubes
University of Calgary
CSI Investigator
 2010 Dr. Maya Saleh
McGill University
CSI New Investigator
2009 Dr. Megan Levings
University of British Columbia
CSI New Investigator
2008 Dr. Alberto Martin
University of Toronto
CSI New Investigator
2008 Dr. Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker
University of Toronto
CSI Investigator
2007 Dr. Tong-Jun Lin
Dalhousie University
CSI New Investigator
2007 Dr. Linda Matsuuchi
University of British Columbia
CSI Investigator
2006 Dr. Andrew P. Makrigiannis
University of Montreal
CSI New Investigator
2006 Dr. Tania H. Watts
University of Toronto
CSI Investigator

 


Trainee Travel Awards

Travel awards for CSI membership trainees are available for students and post-doctoral fellows for the annual CSI meeting. In order to be eligible to apply, you must be a current member of CSI as well as your supervisor must have been a member of CSI for the most recent two years. Notice for accepting applications is sent out via email in early December. The most recent CSI Annual meeting travel award recipients are:

CSI 2010 Annual Meeting
Niagara Falls, Ontario


Student Travel Award Winners 
1st - Miltenyi Award $1,000
Aruz Mesci
University of Toronto
2nd - BioLegend Award $1,000
Jeremy Dupaul-Chicoine
McGill University
3rd - StemCell Award $1,000 Leslie Summers deLuca
University of Toronto
4th - CSI Award $1,000 Mathieu Gigoux
McGill University
5th - CSI Award $1,000 Shaliny Ramachandran
University of Toronto
6th - CSI Award $500 Megan Himmel
University of British Columbia
7th - CSI Award $500 Gloria Hoi Ying Lin
University of Toronto
8th - CSI Award $500 Behrouz Moemeni
Sunnybrook Research Institute
9th - CSI Award $500 Simon Bélanger
University of Ottawa
10th - CSI Award $500 Asanga Samarakoon
University of British Columbia
11th - CSI Award $500 Marie-Andrée Forget University of Montreal
12th - CSI Award $500 Jennifer Brisbin University of Guelph
13th - CSI Award $500 Andrew Martins University of Western Ontario
14th - CSI Award $500 Felicity Stark University of Ottawa
15th - CSI Award $500 Xiaoling Gao University of Manitoba

PDF Travel Award Winners:
1st Place Cedarlane
   Greenberg Award - $1,000
Moutih Rafei IRIC
2nd Place CSI Award - $1,000 Laurent Sabbagh University of Toronto
3rd Place CSI Award - $1,000 Kai McKinstry Trudeau Institute
4th Place CSI Award - $1,000 David Allan Sunnybrook Research Institute
5th Place CSI Award - $1,000 Julie Nielsen BC Cancer Agency
6th Place CSI Award - $500 Hassen Kared CRCHUM
7th Place CSI Award - $500 Gijs Hardenberg University of British Columbia
8th Place CSI Award - $500 Prithy Babu University of Guelph
9th Place CSI Award - $500 Neil Warner University of Michigan
10th Place CSI Award - $500 Angelika Schwanninger University of British Columbia



ICI-CSI Travel Awardees

The 14th International Congress of Immunology will be held in Kobe, Japan in August 2010. CSI will sponsor 15 student / post doc travel awards and three junior investigator travel awards. The 2010 awardees were as follows:

Jr. Investigators:
Dr. James Carlyle University of Toronto
Dr. Colby Zaph University of British Columbia
Dr. Yan Shi University of Calgary

Graduate Students:
Name
Institution Supervisor
Aruz Mesci University of Toronto Dr. James Carlyle
Gloria HY Lin University of Toronto Dr. Tania Watts
Christine Ichim Sunnybrook Research Institute Dr. Richard Wells
Marie-Claude Bourgeois-Daigneault University of Montreal Dr. Jacques Thibodeau
Qingdong Guan University of Manitoba Dr. Zhikang Peng
Adele Wang University of British Columbia Dr. Megan Levings
Maya Poffenberger University of British Columbia Dr. Marc Horwitz
Véronique Dugas University of Montreal Dr. Sylvie Lesage
Ingrid Saba IRCM Dr. Tarik Möröy
Daniel Burke University of Toronto Dr. Eleanor Fish

Postdoctoral Fellows:
Prithy Babu University of Guelph Dr. Bruce Wilkie
Maritza Jaramillo Patino McGill University Dr. Nahum Sonenburg
Nirmal Robinson University of Ottawa Dr. Subash Sad
Amirul Mallick University of Guelph Dr. Shayan Sharif
Marina Tiemi Shio McGill University Dr. Martin Olivier
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

CSI - Student Internship in Immunology Awardees (CSI-SII)

2009 Awardee

Awardee Name Supervisor Institution
Jeremy Dupaul-Chicoine Maya Saleh McGill University
Research Project: "Control of intestinal homeostasis, colitis and colitis-associated colorectal cancer by the inflammatory caspases

 

 


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