- Congratulations to the winners of the Meakins Recognition Awards, which are given for high calibre publications by trainees:
– Mahroo Mofarrahi
– Alexandra Paun
– Lucie Roussel
- Congratulations to the following Meakins faculty for receiving CIHR operating grants:
Elizabeth Fixman (Th17/IL-17 specific mechanisms regulating inflammation and remodeling in allergic airways disease; 5 years)
Maziar Divangahi (Immune regulatory role of host lipid mediators in pulmonary influenza infection; 5 years)
Sabah Hussain (Mechanisms of Angiopoietin/Tie-2 signaling in endothelial cells; 1 year)
(30 June, 2010)
- Congratulations to Toby McGovern for receiving a studentship award from from the Canadian Thoracic Society (she was ranked 1st out of 12) (30 June, 2010)
- Congratulations to the winning students & fellows at the Res Inst Resp Axis Research Day:
Clinical Fellows: Benjamin Smith and Faiz Khan
Grad PhD: Saba Al Heialy
Grad MSc: Stephanie Robins
Post Doctoral Fellow: Sharon Bullimore
(29 June, 2010)
- Congratulations to Arnie Kristof, who was promoted to Associate Professor in the Dept of Medicine (June 17, 2010)
- Congratulations to Maziar Divangahi, whose operating grant application was ranked 5th out of 53 by the CIHR Virology committee (June 10, 2010).
- The Meakins-Christie Laboratories would like to welcome two new members:
Carolyne Baglole from the Universtity of Rochester, who is working on the role of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor in lung disease and Dao Nguyen from the Montreal General Hospital, who is working on the molecular microbiology of biofilms and Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections. (May 3, 2010)
- Dao Nguyen has recently received a grant of $140,000 from the CFI s Leaders Opportunity Fund for the study of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa biofilm and antibiotic tolerance (May 3, 2010)
- Congratulations to Anne-Marie Lauzon for receiving a 5-yr operating grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Mar 30, 2010)
- Congratulation to Christina Haston for receiving a 2-yr operating grant from the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (Mar 12, 2010)
- Congratulation to Simon Rousseau for receiving a 3-yr operating grant from the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (Mar 12, 2010)
- Congratulations to MCL members for receiving CIHR 5-year operating grants:
Anne-Marie Lauzon: Smooth muscle mechanics in airway hyperresponsiveness and asthma
Salman Qureshi: Genetic and functional analysis of host resistance to cryptococcus
(2 Feb, 2010)
- We were recently saddened by the passing of Mike Ward, who was at the Meakins-Christie Labs until he moved to Toronto in 1999. An obituary appeared in today’s Globe and Mail (5 Jan, 2010)