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Master’s and Doctoral Scholar Awards

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The D2R | DNA to RNA Master’s and Doctoral Scholar AwardsÌýboth financially support excellent graduate students and provide them with leading-edge interdisciplinary and intersectoral training through the D2R Training Program.ÌýThis 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.Ìý

AWARDED TRAINEE RESEARCH SUPERVISOR PROJECT TITLE INSTITUTION LEVEL OF STUDY

Jiayao Gu

Yue Li

mirLM - Large Language Model for mircoRNA Sequence Modeling

ɬÀï·¬ 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

ɬÀï·¬ Master's

Mohan Krishna Redlapalle

Lysanne Campeau

Spatial Transcriptomic-Proteomic Profiling in Bladder Cancer

ɬÀï·¬ 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

ɬÀï·¬ Doctoral

Caitlin Atkinson

Benoit Gentil

Conversion of Gene Therapy into RNA Therapy Using a Novel Nanoparticle System

ɬÀï·¬ Doctoral

Dan Boghici

Silvia Vidal

Optimizing alphavirus-derived self-amplifying mRNA vaccines in a mouse model of orthopoxvirus infection

ɬÀï·¬ Doctoral

Kathleen Bornais

Guy Rouleau

Single-nucleus transcriptomic profiling of the anterior cingulate cortex in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia

ɬÀï·¬ Doctoral

Júlia Jié Cabré Romans

Raquel Cuella Martin

Exploring therapeutic opportunities for Leigh Syndrome, French Canadian

ɬÀï·¬ Doctoral

Michael Cunningham

Masad Damha

RNA Analogues for Enhanced CRISPR-Cas12a Gene Editing

ɬÀï·¬ Doctoral

Emma Groenwold

Masad Damha

Nucleic acids-based therapeutics to block USP15-driven neuroinflammation in neurodegenerative diseases

ɬÀï·¬ Doctoral

Ekkanat Jiramongkolsiri

Sidong Huang

A Circular RNA Platform Targeting Oncogenic RNA-Binding Proteins

ɬÀï·¬ Doctoral

Benjamin Kaufman

Claude Bherer

The Population Genetics of the Canadian Jewish Diaspora

ɬÀï·¬ 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

ɬÀï·¬ Doctoral

Diego Loggia

Terence Hébert

Evaluating nucleic acid therapeutics for dilated cardiomyopathy in an iPSC-based model

ɬÀï·¬ Doctoral

Vishvak Raghavan

Yue Li

Spatiotemporal Trajectory Inference from Single-cell Data Using Neural Optimal Transport

ɬÀï·¬ 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

ɬÀï·¬ Doctoral

Yijie Zhang

Mathieu Blanchette

GFlowNet-based mRNA Sequence Design

ɬÀï·¬ Doctoral

Thomas Zheng

Sirui Zhou

Multi-system metabolomic age gap to dissect long COVID-related health outcomes

ɬÀï·¬ Doctoral

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