The winning presentations at the 2016 Annual Respiratory Research Day of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre were: Di Xue (doctoral student, supervisor: Bruce Mazer), Alice Panariti (postdoctoral fellow, supervisors: James Martin and Qutayba Hamid), Guillaume Mullie (medical trainee, supervisor: Kevin Schwartzman), Yukiko Sato (M.Sc. student, supervisor: John Hanrahan). (May 2016)