Student Award Celebration

On May 27, 2026, we held a Student Award Recognition Reception celebrating the accomplishments of students who received awards during the 2025–2026 academic year. This gathering is an opportunity to recognize your academic excellence, research contributions, and achievements alongside fellow students, Principal Investigators, and Institute leadership.

This year's recipients were recognized for an impressive range of scholarships, fellowships, research awards, travel grants, presentation prizes, and excellence awards from prestigious organizations including the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ), Mitacs, D2R, and McGill University, among many others.

These accomplishments reflect the exceptional talent, dedication, and impact of our trainees across diverse fields of biomedical research. We congratulate all award recipients and thank our faculty, mentors, and funding partners for their continued support of student and postdoctoral success.

Atia Amin: Travel award [PI: David Langlais]
Lan Anh Huynh: Recruitment Award [PI: David Juncker]
Mauricio Ayala: Best poster presentation award, McGill Graduate Mobility Award, Best oral presentation award,RIKEN-Tsinghua International Summer Program 2025 [PI: David Langlais]
Jessica Baptista: I.M. Rabinowitch Fellowship [PI: Kristin Voigt/ Yann Joly]
Kelliane Béland: NSERC CGS [PI: David Juncker]
Aanya Bhagrath: Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral (CGS-D) [PI: Judith Mandl]
Dan Boghici: D2R Doctoral Scholar Award [PI: Silvia Vidal]
Andrei Bogza: FRQ Grad2VC fellowship [PI: Corinne Maurice]
Tommy Boutin: FRQNT Doctoral Scholarship [PI: Corinne Maurice]
Benoit Brilland: JASN Trainee of the Year, Research Excellence Award – Natural and Physical Sciences [PI: David Langlais]
Julia Cabre-Romans: D2R Doctoral Award [PI: Raquel Cuella-Martin & Claude Bhérer]
Laura Camelo Valera: FRQNT Doctoral Scholarship [PI: Corinne Maurice]
Aysha Cerf: Bourse de maîtrice (FRQS BF1),FRQNT Bourses de maîtrise en recherche [PI: Judith Mandl]
Alexander Chan: Canada Graduate Studentships - Master's Program, Master Training Scholarship, Doctoral Training Scholarships, STAGE Quebec, Poster Prize D2R symposium [PI: Claude Bhérer]
Xuanning Chen: Canada Graduate Studentships - Master's Program [PI: Anastasia Nijnik]
Justin De Vries: BBME Excellence Award [PI: David Juncker]
Chau Duong: CBH Training Award [PI: Guillaume Bourque]
Luis Gerardo Fernandez Luna: CBH Training Award, Travel Award [PI: Guillaume Bourque]
Andy Garcia Gonzalez: RI-MUHC Studentship [PI: Jacek Majewski]
Ann-Sophie Gironne: Doctoral Training Scholarship [PI: Guillaume Bourque]
Arianna Giurleo: FRQS-D [PI: Bastien Castagner]
Nicolas Graf: CGS-M, Bourse de Maitrise en Recherche, Graduate Mobility Award, Globalinks Research Award [PI: David Juncker]
Emma Groenwold: Doctoral Scholar Award [PI: Philippe Gros]
Mehri Hajiaghayi: Canada Postdoctoral Research Award  [PI: Raquel Cuella-Martin]
Masashi Hasebe: The JASSO (Japan Student Services Organization) scholarship, Watanabe Foundation Scholarship [PI: Satoshi Yoshiji]
Leslie Herrera: FRQS MSc scholarship, OHAP Training Scholarship [PI: David Langlais]
Alice Hou: One Health Against Pathogens (OHAP) [PI: Silvia Vidal]
Nailya Ismailova: Doctoral Training Award FRQS  [PI: Jörg Fritz]
Roselyn Jiang: FRQS Doctoral Studentship,GREAT Travel Award, ThéCell Scientific Dissemination Assistance Program [PI: Anastasia Nijnik]
Reefah Kabir: BME PhD recruitement award [PI: David Juncker]
Benjamin Kaufman: STAGE Quebec, D2R Doctoral Award [PI: Claude Bhérer]
Liam Keogh: FRQS-D [PI: Bastien Castagner]
Julia Luo: Doctoral Research Award scholarshipHuman Genetics Travel Award: Novel Concepts in Innate Immunity conference, Tubingen, Germany [PI: David Langlais]
Catherine Lyu: Best poster presentation award, Canadian Parasitology Network Symposium, Best presentation award, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Scholarship [PI: David Langlais]
Juliano Malizia: STAGE Quebec, CGRS-D NSERC, FRQNT Doctoral [PI: Sirui Zhou & Claude Bhérer]
Mathieu Mancini: Best Oral Presentation Award, Mentorship Award, Postdoctoral Fellowship (CIHR), CEERHC Travel Award [PI: David Langlais]
Diane Martin-Moya: NSERC postdoctoral fellowship [PI: Claude Bhérer]
Olivia Martiskainen: Pierre Hebert Memorial Entrance Scholarship [PI: Ma’n H. Zawati]
Wardah Masud: David G Guthrie Fellowship in Medicine, Doctoral Training Scholarships [PI: Raquel Cuella-Martin]
Peyton McClelland: Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral (CGS-D), Doctoral Training Scholarships [PI: Daniel Taliun & Claude Bhérer]
Titilolu Mebude: Graduate Excellence Recruitment Award (Anti-Black Racism Initiative) [PI: Raquel Cuella-Martin]
Alejandro Mejia Garcia: CGRS-D CIHR, FRQS Doctoral, MS Canada Doctoral [PI: Sirui Zhou]
Angela Mingarelli: Faculty of Medicine Studentship   [PI: Judith Mandl]
Yonathan Morocz: BBME recruitement Award [PI: David Juncker]
Khoi Nguyen: CGRS Doctoral Fellowship, Microbiome Centre Student Fellowship, NSERC Canada Graduate Research Scholarship, McGill Centre for Microbiome Research MI4 Student Fellowship Award [PI: Jianguo Xia]
Barbara Osypa: Best oral presentation award [PI: David Langlais]
Reinnier Padilla: Human Genetics Excellence Award [PI: Jacek Majewski]
Dhanesh Patel: Doctoral Training Scholarship, 1st Place Poster - MRCCT Symposium on Advances in Viral Diseases: From Mechanisms to Therapies [PI: Judith Mandl]
Justin Pelletier: Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Doctoral program, Doctoral Training Scholarships [PI: Claude Bhérer]
Tomas Pepe: Human Genetics Research Excellence Award, Human Genetics Travel Award to present at the 11th Annual Canadian Conference on Epigenetics, Banff, Canada, FRQNT MSc scholarship [PI: David Langlais]
Reilly Pidgeon: CGS-D [PI: Bastien Castagner]
Antonio Pinheiro Junior: I.M. Rabinowitch Fellowship 2025/2026, RGHL Fellowship 2025–2026, CRDP Master’s Excellence Scholarship [PI: Yann Joly]
Bianca Pozzebon: Canada Graduate Studentships - Master's Program [PI: Anastasia Nijnik and David Langlais]
Catherine Prattico: CIHR CGSD [PI: Corinne Maurice / Bastien Castagner]
Zoulikha Rezoug: Bourse d'excellence doctorale [PI: Ma'n H. Zawati]
Audrey Roy-Dorval: Doctoral Training Scholarships [PI: Jörg Fritz]
Houda Shafique: Canadian Graduate Research Scholarship - Doctoral (NSERC CGS D) [PI: David Juncker]
Michael Shamash: Phage Canada Oral Presentation award, FEMS microLife Poster Presentation Award, Travel award [PI: Corinne Maurice]
Molly Shen: Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship [PI: David Juncker]
Gerry Shipman: Human Genetics Excellence Award [PI: Jacek Majewski]
Urvashi Singh: FRQS Doctoral, Llyod-Carr Harris Fellowship – McGill graduate fellowship, Doctoral Training Scholarships [PI: Sirui Zhou & Satoshi Yoshiji]
Deborah Sinishaw: D2R-COUHR summer internship [PI: Claude Bhérer]
David Slilaty: McGill Centre for Microbiome Research scholarship [PI: Bastien Castagner]
Leighton Smith: Canada Graduate Studentships - Master's Program, [PI: Satoshi Yoshiji]
Jacqueline Sung: Doctoral Award [PI: Samantha Gruenheid]
Asal Taha: NSERC USRA [PI: Silvia Vidal]
Johanna Toth: Canada Graduate Studentships - Master's Program [PI: Anastasia Nijnik]
Aivi Tran Fortier: Aha! Award, Best presentation prize [PI: David Langlais]
Megan Tsao: Best PhD oral presentation award [PI: Satoshi Yoshiji]
Seyed Ehsan Vasegh: NSERC CGSD scholarship, CGS-M [PI: Bastien Castagner]
Yifei Wu: Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards  [PI: Sirui Zhou]
Hongyu Xiao: Master Training Scholarship [PI: Daniel Taliun]
Yunhe (Ariel) Xue: Bourse de doctorat [PI: Pierre Larouche/Yann Joly]
Anna Zaidi: Canada Graduate Studentships - Master's Program [PI: Sirui Zhou]
Thomas Zheng: D2R Doctoral Award, CGRS-D CIHR [PI: Sirui Zhou]
Yuxin Zhou: CIHR-CGSD, CBH Training Award, Travel award [PI: Guillaume Bourque]