February
Dr. Marnix Heersink, MD’73, is being inducted into the Burlington Sports Hall of Fame in May.
Dr. Heersink was Western University Basketball all Canadian Centre (1966-68) (1971-72), Freshman Player of the Year (1966-67), O-QAA Champions (1967-68), recipient of the Father E.C. LeBel Plaque – O-QAA Most Outstanding Player (1967-68), 3-Time Team MVP & 3-Time O-QAA All-Star, and CIAU First Team All Canadian (1971-72). He was inducted to the John P. Metras Sports Museum and Western Mustangs Sports Hall of Fame in 2011.
Dr. Les Kalman, DDS’99, Assistant Professor in restorative dentistry at Western University, has been awarded the Randy Stevens Scholarship for educators in additive manufacturing by the Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG).
Dr. John Landau, MD’13, MSc’21 and Dr. Luc Dubois performed the first North American aorta repair using an aortic stent-graft – a flexible medical device that lines and reinforces an artery.
Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine welcome Dr. Michael Taylor, MD’94, esteemed molecular biologist and CPRIT Scholar, as the Director of the Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Research Program at Texas Children's Hospital and at Baylor College of Medicine.
Jennifer Trowbridge, PhD’06, Associate Professor and Dattels Family Chair at The Jackson Laboratory, has received an Emerging Leader Award from The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research. The foundation presented six of these awards, totaling $4.5 million, to outstanding early-career investigators for projects aimed at addressing unmet needs in cancer research.
Trowbridge’s $750,000 award, given over three years, will support her research on stem cells in the blood, with a focus on changes related to aging and the development of leukemia. Her lab’s goal is to identify new targets for treating leukemia.
