Mitacs award winners announced

Mitacs has announced the winners of its second annual awards for students enrolled in one of its fellowships and internships programs. They are:

Dr Lisa-Marie Collimore, a postdoctoral fellow from the Univ of Toronto, who partnered with publishing giant Pearson to conduct research on the potential marketability of a peer- and self-assessment tool called Cogneeto for students in K-12, during her Mitacs-Elevate fellowship;

Sachin Goel, an Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur undergraduate student. During his Mitacs Globalink internship at the Univ of Toronto he conducted research involving the transformation of sugars into biofuel;

Oualid Haddad, a Univ of Guelph postdoctoral fellow from the Department of Integrative biology who conducted research during his Mitacs Elevate fellowship involving the construction of a novel cell stretcher/incubator device that led to the completion of a motorized incubator device;

Joanna Triscott, a Univ of British Columbia graduate student who partnered with BC Children's Hospital through a Mitacs-Accelerate internship to conduct research involving the personalization of treatment for pediatric brain tumors ; and,

Sayed Masoud Hashemi Amroabadi, a Univ of Toronto biomaterial and biomedical engineering student who partnered with Toshiba Medical Systems to conduct research on a novel image de-noising approach through a Mitacs-Accelerate internship.

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