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The following students won awards for Outstanding Presentation at the 2022 Symposium:
- Jayco Cheng – Thesis: “Is there a correlation between Kaiso expression and PD-L1 expression in triple negative breast cancer?” supervised by Dr. Juliet Daniel
- Clare Edwards – Thesis: “Do macrophages with Tet2 mutations have impaired pneumococcal immunity?” supervised by Dr. Dawn Bowdish
- Ana Featherson – Thesis: “Do pyruvate kinase and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase facilitate Eutrema salugineum‘s ability to withstand limiting phosphate conditions?” supervised by Dr. Elizabeth Weretilnyk
- Lydia Leung – Thesis: “Does the institutional radiation-sparing approach used to treat ATRT patients at SickKids Hospital improve overall survival in any of the three ATRT molecular subgroups?” supervised by Dr. Annie Huang & Dr. Adam Fleming
- Swara Patel – Thesis: “Is there an association between excess body weight (EBW) and mixed features in bipolar disorder (BD)?” supervised by Dr. Flavio Kapczinski & Dr. Taiane de Azevedo Cardoso
- Amy Qiao – Thesis: “Interrogating the hematopoietic differentiation potential of acute myeloid leukemia patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells” supervised by Dr. Mick Bhatia
- Radha Sharma – Thesis: “What is the effectiveness of mobile health clinics in our ever-changing world?” supervised by Dr. Tim O’Shea & Dr. Larkin Lamarche
- Sanya Vij – Thesis: “Examining the role of artificial intelligence/machine learning applications in detecting the spread of health misinformation on social media platforms” supervised by Dr. Cynthia Lokker
- Hannah Whitelaw – Thesis: “What features are associated with neoplastic disease-related fractures and can be identified through radiographic images?” supervised by Dr. Megan Brickley
Honourable Mentions: Melanie Bercovitch, Olivia Hamilton, Ekam Sandhu, Kesha Shah