Students of the Summer Research Bursary Program are given the opportunity to showcase their work at Student Research Day.听听Among faculty members, judges and students present their summer research findings via interactive poster presentations.听
This year, the separate Student Research Day events were taking place on November 20th at Campus Montreal and on November 21st at Campus Outaouais.
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Also, we are pleased to announce Best Research Report (Fall 2024, Winter 2025 and Summer 2025听Research Bursary Programs) prizes and Best Poster presentation prizes.
We would like to extend our gratitude to all members of Student Review Committee and poster judges for their time and commitment.
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Congratulations go out to the following award recipients:
Best Poster Presentation Awards
1st Place - Campus Outaouais
Sir Edward W. Beatty Memorial Award
Value: $500
Student/Program:听Mathilde Roberge听
Project:听Identification of Psychosocial and Behavioral Disturbances That May Explain the Comorbidity Between Type 2 Diabetes and Depression: A Pilot Study
Supervisor: Dr.听C茅line Aguer
1st Place - Campus Montreal
Sir Edward W. Beatty Memorial Award
Value: $500
Student/Program: Vanessa听Krohn (Medicine)
Project:听Complications following ventriculosubgaleal shunt and predictors of ventriculoperitoneal shunt placement for post-hemorrhagic ventricular dilatation in preterm newborns
Supervisor: Dr.听Jarred Garfinkle
2nd Place - Campus Montreal
Sir Edward W. Beatty Memorial Award
Value: $250
Student/Program:听William Chow (Medecine)
Project:听Investigation of Skin Diseases in Quebec Northern Indigenous Communities: A Qualitative and Quantitative Mixed-Methods Study of Epidemiology and Lived Experiences
Supervisor: Dr. Ivan V. Litvinov
3rd Place - Campus Montreal
Sir Edward W. Beatty Memorial Award
Value: $150
Student/Program:听Yasmine Elmi听(MD-PhD)
Project:听Racial And Ethnic Inequities In Maternal, Infant, And Neonatal Mortality In Latin America: A Scoping Review
Supervisor: Dr. Mabel Carabali
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Best Report Awards
Best Fall 2024 Research Report
Sir Edward W. Beatty Memorial Award
Value: $500
Student/Program:听Casey Cohen (Medicine)
Project:听High-pressure and temperature autoclaving of peanuts to improve desensitization in allergic individuals
Supervisor: Dr. Bruce Mazer
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Best Winter 2025 Research Report
Sir Edward W. Beatty Memorial Award
Value: $500
Student/Program: Juliette Begin (Medicine)
Project:听Pharmacokinetic Exploratory Assessment Of Antimicrobials For Treatment Of Acute Exacerbations Of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease In Hospitalized Patients Colonized With Pseudomonas Aeruginosa
Supervisor: Dr. Bryan Ross
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Best Summer 2025 Research Report
1st Place
William and Laura Victor Memorial Award
Value: $1,000
Student/Program: Joshua Onichino (Medicine)
Project:听Association of Deep Learning-Derived Paraspinal Muscle Sarcopenia with Mortality in Head and Neck Cancer
Supervisor:听Dr. Jonathan Afilalo
2nd Place
Sir Edward W. Beatty Memorial Award
Value: $500
Student/Program: Benjamin Gordon (Medicine)
Project:听Role of multimodal prehabilitation in promoting anti-tumor immunity in lung cancer
Supervisor: Dr.听Jonathan听Cools-Lartigue
3rd Place
Sir Edward W. Beatty Memorial Award
Value: $250
Student/Program: Ad猫le Usmanov (Nursing)
Project:听Investigating Herpes Virus U14 Protein as a Modulator of p53 Stability
Supervisor: Dr.听Sampath听Loganathan
Sir Edward W. Beatty Memorial Award
Value: $250
Student/Program: Adam Mouncef听(Medicine)
Project:听Repurposing Disulfiram for Melanoma: A Synergistic Approach for Enhanced Tumor Suppression
Supervisor: Dr. Danuta听Radzioch
Ettie Israel Bennett Award
Value: $250
Student/Program:听Zoey Nicely (Medicine)
Project:听Association of Liver Herniation with Left Ventricular Adaptation in Neonates with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Evaluated by 3D Echocardiography as Part of the NORDIC-CDH Project
Supervisor: Dr. Gabriel Altit
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You can find the following booklet including the abstracts of the students who participated in Summer 2025 Research Bursary Program:听
Booklet_Student Research Day 2025
For questions regarding the Student Research Day, please contact the Trainee Awards Coordinator at听rbursary.med [at] mcgill.ca.