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2026 Scientific Meeting - Travel Awards

We are happy to announce the travel award winners for the CSI 2026 annual meeting.

Thank you to our Awards Committee, Craig Jenne - Chair (University of Calgary) and Bryan Heit - Chair (Western University); Trainee Awards - PDF: Katrina Gee (Queens University), Steven Kerfoot (Western University); MSc/UG:Amal Abouda (University of Alberta), Yanis Hichem Bouzaher (University Health Network), Joey Heath (University Health Network), Tapas Mukherjee (University of Toronto), Sebastian This (McGill University), Adam Kevin Wade Vallance (National Institutes of Health), Wenxi Xu (University Health Network); PhD: Heather Armstrong (University of Manitoba), Locke Davenport Huyer (Dalhousie University), Francesca Di Cara (Dalhousie University), Hannah Garner (McGill University), Nicolas Jacquelot (University of Calgary), Nargis Khan (University of Calgary), Josh Koenig (McMaster University), Adam MacNeil (Brock University), Ryan Pardy (INRS), Jim Sun (University of British Columbia), Ajitha Thanabalasuriar (McGill University), Maria Tokuyama (University of British Columbia); New Investigator Awards - Xavier Clemente-Casares (University of Alberta), Rodney DeKoter (Western University), Jun Wang (Dalhousie University)

Congratulations to the following winners for their success and thank you to all those that applied. We look forward to seeing you in Winnipeg!

STUDENTS

MSc Winners ($500) in alphabetical order:

CSI Travel Award  Gabrielle Buckley Western University
CSI Travel Award  Oscar Gonzalez-Morales University of Manitoba
CSI Travel Award  Akash Hirgond University of Manitoba
CSI Travel Award  Carly Kadonoff University of Guelph
CSI Travel Award Abha Ranjitkar University of Ottawa
CSI Travel Award  Chanpreet Riarh Western University
CSI Travel Award  Christian Romanowski University of Victoria
CSI Travel Award  Rachel Sokyrka McGill University
CSI Travel Award  Dima Traboulsi McMaster University
CSI Travel Award  Sarah-Maude Tremblay Université Laval

PhD Winners ($500) in alphabetical order:

CSI Travel Award  Ovini Amarasinghe University of Manitoba
CSI Travel Award  Alexandria Bartlett University of Calgary
CSI Travel Award  Julia Amanda Cerato University of Manitoba
CSI Travel Award  Hani Choksi University of Toronto
CSI Travel Award  Chidimma F. Chude University of Manitoba
CSI Travel Award Fitsumbrhan Fisseha INRS
CSI Travel Award  Zachary Froom Dalhousie University
CSI Travel Award  Sebastian J. Grocott University of Toronto
CSI Travel Award Zahra Jamila Ikra University of Calgary
CSI Travel Award Davit Khijakadze University of British Columbia 
CSI Travel Award  Grace I.C. Kuo University of British Columbia
CSI Travel Award  Tatiana J. Lau University of British Columbia
CSI Travel Award  David A. Lawton University of Ottawa
CSI Travel Award  Guillaume L. Lopez INRS
CSI Travel Award  Ève Mallet Gauthier University of Montreal
CSI Travel Award  Arash Mohammadi Matak Dalhousie University
CSI Travel Award Natasha Norton University of Victoria
CSI Travel Award Amir Rahmati University of Alberta
CSI Travel Award David FuHao Tan University of British Columbia
CSI Travel Award Nicole Wang Western University
CSI Travel Award Tianning Yu University of Toronto

POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS

PDF Winners ($1000) in alphabetical order:

CSI Travel Award  Yanis Hichem Bouzaher Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
CSI Travel Award  Tapas Mukherjee University of Toronto
CSI Travel Award  Marcos Petersen University of Alberta
CSI Travel Award  Sébastien This Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Institute
CSI Travel Award  Anthony Wong University of British Columbia

NEW INVESTIGATOR

Winners ($1,500) in alphabetical order:

CSI Travel Award  Nicolas Jacquelot University of Calgary
CSI Travel Award  Eva Kaufmann McGill University
CSI Travel Award  Chi Yan University of Manitoba

Applications Received by Institute:

INSTITUTE RECEIVED
Case Western Reserve University

2

CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre

2

Concordia University of Edmonton

1

Concordia University

1

CRCHU de Québec-Université Laval

2

Dalhousie University

3

INRS

4

McGill University

5

McMaster University

3

NIH

1

Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Institute

1

Simon Fraser University

1

UHN Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

2

Université de Montréal

1

Université du Québec a Trois-Rivières

4

University Health Network

1

University of Alberta

7

University of British Columbia

10

University of Calgary

8

University of Guelph

6

University of Manitoba

10

University of Ottawa

7

University of Toronto

8

University of Victoria

2

University of Western Ontario

14

York University

2