Visiting Scientist Awards - March 2009 Competition
The AHFMR Visiting Scientist program brings excellent Alberta-based scientists together with expertise not currently available in provincial institutions. The program's objective is to promote the development of collaborative research and knowledge exchange between the applicant and the host scientist with the expectation of long-term research benefits as a result. The AHFMR Visiting Scientist grant is a peer-reviewed, competitive award.
AHFMR is pleased to announce the successful applications for the Visiting Scientist award as listed below. Letters of award will be sent out the week of June 8, 2009.
Additional information on the Visiting Scientist awards can be found here.
Visiting Scientist To Alberta
| Applicant: |
Dr. Vijaya Sundararajan Department of Medicine in the Southern Clinical School Monash University, Australia |
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| Host: |
Dr. Hude Quan and co-host Dr. William Ghali Department of Community Health Sciences University of Calgary |
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| Title: | The AHRQ and AUS PSIs Applied to Canadian and Australian Data: Can They be Successfully Applied? | |
| Funding: | $ 4,700 |
Visiting Scientist from Alberta
| Applicant: |
Dr. Nils Torben Bech-Hansen Department of Medical Genetics University of Calgary |
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| Host: |
Dr. Steven Fisher Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology University of California at Santa Barbara |
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| Title: | Genetics of the Healthy and Diseased Retina | |
| Funding: | $ 8,500 |
| Applicant: |
Dr. Paige Lacy Department of Medicine University of Alberta |
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| Host: |
Dr. Jennifer Stow Department of Molecular Cell Biology University of Queensland, Australia |
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| Title: | Regulation of Protein Trafficking in Secretory Granules in Cells of the Innate Immune System | |
| Funding: | $ 23,000 |