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null What’s new at the 2019 Cancer Research Program (CRP) Research Day?

Along with traditional presentations, the first CRP 3-minute thesis competition!

May 6, 2019

Source: RI-MUHC. The Cancer Research Program (CRP) at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) welcomed members and friends to their fourth annual CRP Research Day on May 3. The organizing committee presented a diversified program celebrating the great cancer research discoveries resulting from the hard work of CRP scientists and their teams. 

The goal of this event is to encourage scientific discussion, stimulate reflection and give rise to new collaborative teams. While trainees took the floor for most of the day, two CRP researchers also gave talks. Dr. Shirin Abbasi Nejad Enger, a junior scientist at the RI-MUHC and member of the Medical Physics Unit at McGill University, presented her latest research progress on brachytherapy, and Dr. Antonio Vigano, a clinician-scientist and research director of Santé Cannabis, presented the new McGill Cannabis Program in Oncology. 

Among the CRP students, postdocs and research staff who submitted scientific abstracts for a poster or oral presentation, nine were selected to give talks. New this year was a 3-minute thesis (3MT) competition that challenged students to present their research project in an engaging, accessible and compelling way – in only 3 minutes, using a single static slide. Six students delivered these challenging talks. Congratulations to all the winners!

Some of our 2019 Cancer Research Program Research Day presentation winners at the Research Institute of the MUHC, from left to right: Julien Mégrouréche, Haley Patrick, Karl-Philippe Guerard, Anna de Polo, Sabrina Bergeron and Ansley Gnanapragasam

CRP Research Day 2019 - Winners
 
Category Position Winner Name Lab Prizes
Travel Award
($)		 Poster Printing
($)
Oral 1 Matthew Dankner Peter Siegel, PhD 750 50
2 Julien Mégrouréche Shrin Enger, PhD 500 50
M.Sc. Poster 1 Philip Pisano Lorenzo Ferri, MD, PhD 750 50
2 Ansley Gnanapragasam Swneke Bailey, PhD 500 50
PhD Poster 1 Haley Patrick John Kildea, PhD 750 50
2 Caitlin Fierheller Patricia Tonin, PhD 500 50
Postdoc Poster 1 Anna De Polo David Labbé, PhD 500 50
Staff Poster 1 Karl-Philippe Guérard Jacques Lapointe, MD, PhD 500 50
3MTC 1 Sabrina Bergeron Miguel Burnier, MD, PhD 250 50
2 Wajih Jawhar Livia Garzia, PhD 0 50
   
One of the first place winners at the Cancer Research Program (CRP) Research Day, May 3, 2019

 

The Cancer Research Program warmly thanks all participants, judges, volunteers and sponsors. Your support and involvement are directly responsible for the success of this event.

Students from our Trainee Council, Cancer Research Program (CRP), May 3, 2019

Program administration
Peter Metrakos, Program leader
Patricia Tonin, Associate Program Leader
Marie-Claude Gingras, Program Manager
Veronica Atehortua, Program Assistant
Zehra Khoja, Program Assistant

Abstract Review Committee
Swneke Bailey
Simone Chevalier
Livia Garzia
Marie-Claude Gingras
John Kildea
Veena Sangwan
Julia Valdemarin-Burnier
Norma Ybarra

Our Generous Sponsors
Oncopole
Cedarlane
Charles River
D-Mark BioSciences
ESBE Scientific
FroggaBio
Millipore Sigma
Sartorius
ThermoFisher Scientific

2019 Cancer Research Program (CRP) Research Day at the Glen site of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) 2019 Cancer Research Program (CRP) Research Day at the Glen site of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC)
2019 Cancer Research Program (CRP) Research Day at the Glen site of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) 2019 Cancer Research Program (CRP) Research Day at the Glen site of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC)
2019 Cancer Research Program (CRP) Research Day at the Glen site of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) 2019 Cancer Research Program (CRP) Research Day at the Glen site of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC)
2019 Cancer Research Program (CRP) Research Day at the Glen site of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) 2019 Cancer Research Program (CRP) Research Day at the Glen site of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC)