Awards
Awards 2025
Award Structure:
- 4 first prize oral presentation awards, $300 each
- up to 40 poster prizes, $150 each
- $8,000 in awards will be given out
For 2025, the Academic Committee is working alongside their partners at the Hospitals, and we may be able to offer a publication award. We will work with our partners, and update this page by March 24th, 2025 if we are allowing LHRD participants an opportunity to apply for a publication award.
2024 Poster Winners
| First Name | Last name | Department/Affiliation | Supervisor(s) |
| Umaima | Abbas | Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry (MD) | Dr. Emmanuel Guindon |
| Wendy | Blunt | Health and Rehabilitation Sciences | Drs. Maxwell Smith and Jacob Shelley |
| Emily | Boyko | Epidemiology & Biostatistics | Drs. Jennifer Guthrie and Dan Lizotte |
| Julia | Brott | Anatomy & Cell Biology | Dr. Nathalie Bérubé |
| Yi-Han | Chen | Microbiology & Immunology | Dr. Steven Kerfoot |
| Beryl | Chung | Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry | Dr. Sandrine de Ribaupierre |
| David | DeVries | Radiation Oncology | Dr. Doug Hoover |
| Manuel | Diaz | Microbiology and Immunology | Dr. John McCormick |
| Camille | Duggal | Otolaryngology- Head & Neck Surgery | Dr. Sowerby |
| Niveen | Fulcher | Clinical Neurological Sciences (Neurosurgery) | Drs. Matthew Hebb & Eugene Wong |
| Avery | Gaudreau | Microbiology & Immunology | Dr. David Heinrichs |
| Ermina | Hadzic | Physiology & Pharmacology | Dr. Frank Beier |
| Oneeb | Hassan | Physiology & Pharmacology | Dr. Christopher Pin |
| Wilfred | Huang | Faculty of Health Sciences, Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing | Dr. Amanda McIntyre |
| Yee Wing | Kwok | Physiology & Pharmacology | Dr. John Di Guglielmo |
| Jasmine | Lau | Medical Biophysics | Dr. John Ronald |
| Amanda | Liddy | Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Drs. Saman Maleki and Jeremy Burton |
| Katelyn | MacNeil | Microbiology & Immunology | Dr. Joe Mymryk |
| Karly | Masse | Physiology & Pharmacology | Dr. Van B. Lu |
| Galina | Mironova | Physiology & Pharmacology | Dr, Donald Welsh |
| Jonathan | Nguyen | Physiology & Pharmacology | Drs. Bradley Lyle Urquhart and Ute Ina Schwarz |
| Sepideh | Nikfarjam | Anatomy & Cell Biology | Dr. Krishna Singh |
| Nikita | Ollen-Bittle | Anatomy & Cell Biology | Drs. Whitehead, and E. Finger |
| Jacqueline | Palik | Clinical Neurological Sciences (CNS) | Drs. Michael J Strong, Kathryn Volkening and Neil Donison |
| Rachel | Penney | Microbiology & Immunology | Drs. Jeremy Burton and Jessica Prodger |
| Majd | Radhaa | Epidemiology & Biostatistics | Drs. Ava John-Baptiste and Jennifer Leason |
| Mohnish | Rao | Medical & Dental Research | Drs. Cecilia Dong, Amrit Kirpalani, and Sara Colozza |
| Aleena | Sajid | Physiology & Pharmacology/Kinesiology | Dr. Kevin Shoemaker |
| Jenna | Schulz | Family Medicine | Dr. Jane Thornton |
| Malika | Seth | Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry | Dr. Nicole Campbell |
| Ainslie | Shouldice | Microbiology & Immunology | Dr. Jessica Prodger |
| Justin | Tang | Anatomy & Cell Biology | Drs. Silvia Penuela and Frank Beier |
| Karina | Tassiopoulos | Epidemiology & Biostatistics | Dr. Kathy Nixon Speechley |
| Agnes | Terek | Physiology & Pharmacology | Drs. David Hess and Lauren Flynn |
| Yina | Tian | Physiology & Pharmacology | Dr. David Hess |
| Tanmay | Vasa | Epidemiology & Biostatistics | Drs. Sisira Sarma & Ute Schwarz |
| Sima | Vatandoost | Health and Rehabilitation Sciences | Dr. Alison Rushton |
| Danielle | Vucenovic | Nephrology | Dr. Dervla Connaughton |
| Farah | Wahib | Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry | Dr. Nicole Campbell |
| Nicole | Wang | Microbiology & Immunology | Dr. Mansour Haeryfar |
| Alexandra | Welten | Paediatrics | Drs. Breanna Chen & Elisabeth (Lisette) Yorke |
| Karen | Wong | Paediatrics | Drs. Rishi Ganesan and Sandrine de Ribaupierre |
| Joshua | Yi | Microbiology & Immunology | Dr. Rodney DeKoter |
| Alina | Zgardau | Otolaryngology | Dr. Julie Strychowsky |
| Xin | Zhao | Neuroscience | Drs. Wataru Inoue and Lyle Muller |
2024 Oral Presentation Winners
| FIRST NAME | LAST NAME | TOPIC/ROOM | DEPARTMENT | ABSTRACT TITLE | SUPERVISOR(S) |
| Jake | Hamilton | Imaging | Medical Biophysics | The severity of microstructural changes detected by advanced diffusion MRI in a mouse model of repeated mild traumatic brain injury is dependent on tract orientation | Drs. Corey Baron & Arthur Brown |
| Katherine | Quesnel | Neuroscience | Anatomy & Cell Biology | Modeling ATRX-linked intellectual disability and autism in mice. | Dr Nathalie Berube |
| Clara | Schott | Aging & Chronic Disease | Biochemistry | Utility of Genetic Testing in Adults with Chronic Kidney Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis |
Dr. Dervla Connaughton |
| Michelle | Wong | Cancer | Physiology & Pharmacology | ABCG2 and ABCB1 efflux drug transporter expression and single nucleotide variations (SNVs) in patients on tamoxifen therapy |
Dr. Richard Kim |
London Health Research Day is presented in partnership with Western University's Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry and Faculty of Health Sciences, Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's Health Care London and London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute.
