News

December, 2011
Dr. Mahyar Etminan was interviewed for the New York Times as lead author of a 2009 study that looked at the increase in the risk of asthma and wheezing in both children and adults exposed to acetaminophen. [Read the full NYT article]

September, 2011
Our Masters student, Kusala Pussegoda received Best Poster Award at the Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine Conference. “Pussegoda K, Ross CJ, Visscher H, Yazdanpanah M, Brooks B, Rassekh R, Carleton B, Hayden M & the CPNDSConsortium (2011). Replication of TPMT genetic variants highly associated with cisplatin-induced hearing loss in children. Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine Conference (Hinxton, UK.)”

Our PhD student, Kaarina Kowalec was awarded a Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada Travel Award to attend the Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine Conference (Hinxton, U.K.).

August, 2011
Our postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Ricardo Jimenez-Mendez was awarded a travel award from the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE) to present results from our work on Asthma at the ISPE Annual conference.

June, 2011
Our Masters student, Kaitlyn Shaw received Best Poster Award at the CFRI Student Research Forum. “Shaw K, Amstutz U, Hildebrand C, Rassekh SR, Braun J, Ross C, Hayden, Carleton B. Pharmacogenetics of Warfarin in Children. Vancouver, BC. Presented on June 16 2011.”

April, 2011
Our post-doctoral fellow, Dr. Ricardo Jimenez-Mendez was awarded the Drug Safety and Effectiveness Cross-Disciplinary Training (DSECT) Program Fellowship. This is a CIHR funded program to train future researches in drug safety and effectiveness.

Our PhD student, Kaarina Kowalec was awarded a Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR) Doctoral Research Award for three years to investigate drug-induced liver injury in patients with Multiple Sclerosis.

July, 2010
Our Masters student, Tenneille Loo was awarded the Michael Cuccione Foundation graduate studentship award by the Child & Family Research Institute, as well as the Frederick Banting and Charles Best graduate scholarship award by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Congratulations Tenneille!

March, 2010
Our Doctoral student, Tingting Zhang was awarded the Drug Safety and Effectiveness Cross-Disciplinary Training (DSECT) Scholarship by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Congratulations Tingting!

 

 

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