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HMR Foundation awards for publication excellence

Summary

The 12th annual HMR Foundation awards for publication excellence were held on November 25, 2019. Every year, these awards recognize the best scientific articles published by graduate students and postdoctoral fellows during the year.

From the submitted applications, three were selected by the CR-HMR’s scientific activities committee, which then invited the candidates to present their article to the members of the CR-HMR.

 

Winners

1st prize : Émile Fortier, PhD student, lab of Dr. Elliot Drobetsky and Dr. Hugo Wurtele – $1,000

«Replication protein A availability during DNA replication stress is a major determinant of cisplatin resistance in ovarian cancer cells».

 

2nd prize : Aditi Sood, postdoctoral student, lab of Dr. Heather Melichar – $500

«Differential interferon-gamma production potential among naive CD4+ T cells exists prior to antigen encounter».

 

3rd prize : Dave Maurice De Sousa, PhD student, lab of Dr. Nathalie Labrecque – $100

«The Notch signaling pathway controls CD8+ T cell differentiation independently of the classical effector HES1».