Twenty McGill doctoral and postdoctoral students have received important funding from the Government of Canada. Sixteen have earned Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships and four, Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships.
The Vanier program awards doctoral students up to $50,000 per year for three years. The Banting program is worth up to $70,000 annually for two years.
“I’m delighted to congratulate this year’s Vanier and Banting winners on this very well-deserved recognition of their leadership, achievements and great potential for research excellence,” said Josephine Nalbantoglu, Associate Provost (Graduate Education) & Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.
“This year’s cohort of winners is a testament to the quality of scholarship that we support and cultivate at McGill. I look forward to following the careers of these outstanding researchers and seeing all the contributions they will make to their fields, their communities, and McGill.”
‘Advancing knowledge for the benefit of all’
Across Canada, 166 doctoral students received Vanier scholarships and 70 researchers received Banting fellowships.
The programs are funded by the Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
“Congratulations to the 2024 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships and Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships recipients,” said François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, in announcing the winners May 28. “Their dedication to advancing knowledge for the benefit of all is truly impressive and their hard work will help find solutions that have the potential to make the world a better place and drive Canadian prosperity.”
“Canada is a world-leader in research and innovation, and the individuals we are recognizing today are a testament to that,” said Mark Holland, Minister of Health. “Their research holds tremendous promise for making our lives better and healthier in a variety of ways.”
McGill’s Banting Postdoctoral Fellows and their research topics:
Mary LaPierre, Neuroscience
A neural basis for the co-ordinated control of thermal and osmotic homeostasis
Jessica Quinton, Environmental Studies
Social sustainability and equity of mixed-use development in Canadian cities
Pedro Guillermo Ramon Celis, Anthropology
Community-collaborative Zapotec archaeology: Investigating commoner roles in Guiengola’s late Postclassic urban landscape
Monica Shank Lauwo, Education
Stories of lives and literacies: Imagining futures, identities and decolonial educational possibilities with Tanzanian girls
Get more information about McGill’s 2024 Banting Fellows.
McGill’s Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship recipients and their research topics:
Mohan Agrawal, Physics
Development of a new radio telescope to obtain the world’s first high-resolution maps of the low-frequency radio sky and probe the cosmic dark ages
Aline Atallah, Experimental Medicine
The functional complexities of macrophage ontogeny in glioblastoma outcomes
Christy Au-Yeung, Psychology
Understanding and treating negative symptoms in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: A cognitive lens
Rasel Babu, Educational and Counselling Psychology
Pedagogues’ readiness to integrate educational technology for teaching language and mathematics in Bangladeshi secondary school classrooms
Jae Hyun Byun, Experimental Medicine
Identifying the role of sex hormones in carotid atherosclerotic plaque instability
Nour Chahine, Neuroscience
Circuit-behaviour analysis of Fragile X ASD/ID rat model through the head-direction system
Judy Chen, Neuroscience
Towards lifespan approaches for epilepsy biomarker discovery and validation
Champ Darabundit, Music Technology
Estimation of woodwind playing parameters using hybrid physics-machine learning models
Homa Fathi, Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences
Towards structural competency in health care: How Iranian-heritage health-care professionals in Canada have changed their perspectives following the Woman-Life-Freedom movement
Jamie Magrill, Human Genetics
Identification of biomarkers using single-cell technology that inform on targeted and immune therapy treatment in melanoma
Omotayo Olaoye, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, & Occupational Health
The use and safety of Central Nervous System (CNS) depressants in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
Daniel Romm, Geography
Sustainable and equitable transportation outside the city: Using micromobility to connect to regional transit in small population centres
Hugo Schérer, Physics
Cosmological and astrophysical searches for dark matter through in-medium effects
Tarek Taifour, Experimental Medicine
Investigating the role of Chi3l1 in non-small cell lung cancer progression and resistance to immunotherapies
Sripadh Guptha Yedire, Biological and Biomedical Engineering
An integrated epi-fluidic wearable platform for non-invasive multianalyte sensing in skin-derived biofluids via Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
Raffles Xingqi Zhu, Neuroscience
Investigating the internal spatial noise in normal and amblyopic vision using an equivalent noise paradigm
Get more information about McGill’s 2024 Vanier Scholars