Graduate students in the Department of Cell & Systems Biology cover a broad range of fields, including plant science, neuroscience, cell biology, infectious disease research, endocrinology and systems biology. The discoveries these students are making and their contributions to the Department are celebrated in our Departmental Awards.
We are grateful to generous donors for two new awards this year.
Dr. Sergiy and Tetyana Kryvoruchko are supporting future advancements in medical sciences through U of T’s Graduate Collaborative Specializations by funding the Graduate Scholarship in Cell & Systems Biology.
Janssen Pharmaceutical has kindly provided an endowment to support students from equity-deserving groups in the form of the Janssen Graduate Award for Equity & Inclusion.
Thank you to all our donors and congratulations to students who earned these awards!
Dr. Christine Hone-Buske Scholarship
Sabrina Barsky (Monks Labs)
Valerie Anderson Award
Stephen Bordeleau (Goring lab)
Kenneth C. Fisher Fellowship
Cindy Hong (Kim lab)
Sheila Freeman Graduate Award in Zoology
Milena Russo (Liu lab)
Dr. Clara Winifred Fritz Memorial Fellowship in Plant Pathology
Tamar Av-Shalom (Guttman/Desveaux labs)
Duncan L. Gellatly Memorial Fellowship
Deepa Chaphekar (Guzzo lab)
Yoshio Masui Prize
Sharanja Premachandran (Calarco lab)
David F. Mettrick Fellowship
Jing Liu (Chang lab)
Dr. Klaus Rothfels Memorial Scholarship
Keerath Bhachu (Nguyen Ba lab)
Senior Alumni Association Prize
Gregor McEdwards (Currie lab)
Hilbert and Reta Straus Award
Jimmy Issa (Ness/Phillips labs)
Vietnamese-Canadian Community Graduate Award
Areej Al-Dailami (Lange lab)
Elizabeth Ann Wintercorbyn Award for Agriculture
Gaeun Shin (McFarlane lab)
Elizabeth Ann Wintercorbyn Award for Medicine
Arvin Persaud (Guzzo lab)
Ramsay Wright Scholarship
Ashleigh Brink (Corbit lab)
Zoology International Scholarships
Jerrica Jamison (Welch lab)
Karan Ishii (Plotnikov lab)
Zoology Sesquicentennial Graduate Award
Benjamin Tsang (Gerlai lab)
Alfred and Florence Aiken and Dorothy Woods Memorial Graduate Scholarship
Jenna Hountalas (Lumba lab)
Janssen Graduate Award for Equity & Inclusion at the University of Toronto
Brittany Mascarenhas (Cheng lab)
Dr. Sergiy and Tetyana Kryvoruchko Graduate Scholarship in Cell & Systems Biology
Irina Alymova (Peever lab) – Neuroscience
Ayasha Abdalla-Wyse (Shafer lab) – Genome Biology & Bioinformatics
Joan M. Coleman Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (QEII-GSST)
Bridget Murphy (Ensminger lab)
Sherwin S. Desser Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (QEII-GSST)
Emily Dong (Chang lab)