Banting Postdoctoral Researchers 2024-2025

CIHR

Name	Host institution	Discipline	Project titleFootnote 2
Arora, Anish	McMaster University	Health Services Research	Improving Health Equity in Serious Illness Communication: A National Randomized Controlled Trial of an Interprofessional Clinical Education Program.
Auger, Louis-Pierre	McGill University	Health Services Research	Enhancing clinical practice and entry-level education to improve sexuality-related services for individuals with disabilities: Insights from two integrated knowledge translation studies.
Bergeron, David	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne	Nervous System	Interface cerveau-moelle épinière pour restaurer le mouvement du membre supérieur après un AVC sous-cortical.
Bishnoi, Indra	Massachusetts General Hospital	Nervous System	Characterizing cell-type-specific contributions of a high-penetrance gene for autism spectrum disorder: Implications for brain and behavioural development.
Bodenstein, David	Toronto General Research Institute	Cardiovascular	Exploring the therapeutic mechanism of mitochondrial transplant in acute cardiac injury.
Braun, Jessica	University of Copenhagen	Metabolism/Diabetes	Uncovering and validating novel molecular targets linked to mitonuclear balance for the treatment of age- and disease-related metabolic dysfunctions and impaired muscle function.
Bruce, Olivia Photo courtesy of: Mary Anne Kochenderfer	Stanford University	Muscle, Bone, Or Joint	Novel imaging biomarkers to assess bone stress injury healing.
Chen, Paul Photo courtesy of: Schmidt Science Fellows	Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard	Vision	In vivo prime editing to rescue autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa.
Decker, Alexandra	Massachusetts General Hospital	Psychosocial/Health Behavioural Res.	Examining the Role of the Locus Coeruleus in Cognitive Symptoms of ADHD Using Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques.
Fischer, Jaimy	University of Victoria	Environmental Influences On Health	Pathways to Reconciliation: Documenting Urban Trail Implementation and Its Effects on Indigenous Health and Mobility Using a Two-Eyed Seeing Approach.
Groza, Cristian	Montreal Heart Institute	Genetics	Enabling sensitive genome-wide associations of structural variants with disease traits using a Quebec pangenome.
Jopling, Ellen	Boston Children's Hospital	Mental Health	The impact of neglect on biological aging and mental health: From infancy to emerging adulthood.
Lee, Tae Yoon	Stanford University	Cancer	Development and evaluation of second primary lung cancer screening in lung cancer survivors.
Liu, Yiyang	University College London	Cancer	Longitudinal tracking of spatial immune microenvironment and immune evasion in lung cancer.
Matheson, Alexander	McMaster University	Imaging	Pulmonary Structural and Functional MRI to Predict Exacerbations and Regional Disease Progression.
Midavaine, Elora	University fo California - San Francisco	Nervous System	Pregnancy-Induced Neuronal Modulation of Chronic Pain.
Norris, Peter	Queen's University	Immunology-Transplantation	How Neutrophil Clearance in the Bone Marrow Shapes Tissue Injury Repair.
Olukitibi, Titus	University of Manitoba	Molecular Biology	Identification and Implications of Immune Markers for HPV Clearance.
Poitras, Isabelle Photo courtesy of: University of Calgary	University of Calgary	Nervous System	Assessment of and Intervention for Visual Impairment After Stroke.
Ramos da Silva, Bruna	University of Alberta	Cancer	Precision Nutrition for Muscle Loss in Cancer: Addressing inter-individual variability.
Rodrigues, Myanca Photo courtesy of: Paulina Rzeczkowska, McCall MacBain Postdoctoral Fellows Teaching and Leadership Program, McMaster University	Queen's University	Mental Health	Beyond Overdose: Exploring the Predictors and Long-term Health Impacts of Fentanyl Use in People with Opioid Use Disorder.
Soriano, Jan Elaine	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne	Nervous System	Axon regeneration strategies to restore upper-limb functions after paralysis.
Steadman, Patrick	Stanford University	Nervous System	Disrupting neuron-glioma interactions in the thalamus for thalamic low-grade glioma therapy.

NSERC

Name	Host institution	Discipline	Project titleFootnote 2
Abu Jarad, Noor	University of Toronto	Chemical, Biomedical And Materials Science Engineering - Biomedical Engineering	Development of a Biocompatible Implantable Sensor for Continuous and Long-term Monitoring of Liver Function Utilizing NIR Spectroscopy and Fluorescence.
Balakrishnan, Mayura	McGill University	Physics And Astronomy - Astronomy And Astrophysics	A New Window Into Galactic Feedback and Our Own Cosmic History.
Carolus, Hans	Université Laval	Cellular And Molecular Biology - Microbiology	Deep mutational scanning for collateral sensitivity of antifungal drug resistance.
Colafranceschi, Eugenia	University of Waterloo	Mathematical Sciences - Applied Mathematics	Axiomatic Framework for Quantum Gravity: Unravelling Black hole Entropy.
Cook, Amanda	McGill University	Physics And Astronomy - Astronomy And Astrophysics	Statistically Mapping Sparse Cosmic Plasma with Fast Radio Bursts.
Cox, Kieran	Dalhousie University	Evolution And Ecology - Evolution And Ecology	Something Sounds Fishy: Bioacoustics, Conservation, and Policy in the Northeast Pacific.
Crockett, Benjamin Photo courtesy of: Alana Colville	University of British Columbia	Physics And Astronomy - Optics	Time-Frequency Graph States Generation for Integrated All-Photonic Quantum Repeaters.
Deibert, Emily	University of Waterloo	Physics And Astronomy - Astronomy And Astrophysics	High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Exoplanet Atmospheres.
Faghel-Soubeyrand, Simon	University of Oxford	Psychology - Cognitive Science - Fundamental	The role of sleep on memory transformation.
Khanfir, Robin	McGill University	Mathematical Sciences - Statistics And Probability	Criticality in multisource invasion percolation.
Hassanpour Tamrin, Sara Photo courtesy of: University of Calgary’s Postdoctoral Office	University of Calgary	Chemical, Biomedical And Materials Science Engineering - Biomedical Engineering	Miniaturized Electro-Sensitive Technology for Non-Invasive Early Diagnosis of Cancer.
Kinley, Isaac	Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care	Psychology - Cognitive Science - Fundamental	Networks of Knowledge in the Imaginative Brain: a Multimodal Neuroimaging Investigation of the Role of Schemas in Episodic Future Thinking.
Krzys, Karolina	York University	Psychology - Sensory systems and perception	Functional significance of true eye contact in face-to-face communication and impacts of distorted eye contact in video conferencing.
McCarthy, Seth	University of British Columbia	Plant And Animal Biology - Kinesiology	Role of lactate in the anti-inflammatory effects of exercise.
McCrackin, Sarah	McGill University	Psychology - Psychology - Fundamental Processes	Masking the face, unmasking the brain: How face occlusion affects neural processing.
Médieu, Anaïs	McGill University	Evolution And Ecology - Animal Ecology	Interactive effects of climate change and plastic-related contaminants on Arctic seabirds.
Nasseri, Seyed Amirhossein	Harvard University	Cellular And Molecular Biology - Biochemistry	A comparative study of bacterial and eukaryotic protein homeostasis machineries.
Ng, Kia Boon	TRIUMF	Physics And Astronomy - Physics	Measuring the Schiff moment of radioactive molecular ion 227ThF+.
Rehman, Danyal Photo courtesy of: Tony Pulsone (MIT)	Université de Montréal	Civil And Mechanical Engineering - Mechanical Engineering	Deep Learning for Out-of-distribution Molecular Discovery.
Royer, Jessica	Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences	Psychology - Behavioural Neuroscience	Towards neurobiological mechanisms of the human social brain.
Sourki, Reza	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Civil And Mechanical Engineering - Mechanical Engineering	Multi-Functional Materials: Responsive Structural Designs For Assistive Devices.
Tombak, Kaia	University of Toronto	Evolution And Ecology - Behaviour	Unveiling the principles of social equity: a study of egalitarian animal societies.
Zhang, Xu	University of British Columbia	Evolution And Ecology - Evolution And Ecology	Genomic and Epigenetic Mechanisms in Speciation with Gene Flow: The Role of Recombination Modifiers in Wild Sunflowers.

SSHRC

Name	Host institution	Discipline	Project titleFootnote 2
Ahn, Jee Seul	Université de Montréal	Education	Leveraging Career Guidance to Promote Equitable and Diverse Transitions to Meaningful Work: Insights from a Comparative Study among Canadian and South Korean Youth.
Bourgeois, Rebecca Photo courtesy of: SUB Photo	The University of Western Ontario	Anthropology	"Strong Like Two People": Amplifying Indigenous Voices to Re-center, Re-animate, and Repatriate Archives and Collections.
Brisson, Julien	University of Toronto	Social Work	Navigating Reproductive Justice in Climate Crisis: A Comparative Ethnography on Colombian Youth's Autonomy During Environmental Disasters.
David, Jonathan	York University	Psychology	You win some you lose some: Investigating the addictive nature of microtransactions within video games.
Diouf Lewis, Jenny	University of Toronto	Fine Arts	Singing to improve brain functions related to reading: Neurological effects of singing on the arcuate fasciculus of children with dyslexia.
Duncan, Emily	University of Regina	Sociology	Building Climate Resilience in Canadian Agriculture through Digital Technologies.
Dykstra, Victoria	University of California	Child and Adolescent Psychology	Identifying best practices for interviewing adolescents about negative experiences.
Giesbrecht, Crystal	University of Saskatchewan	Psychology	Classifying Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence: Extension of a Typology to Inform Risk Management and Risk Reduction Strategies.
Henderson, Phil	York University	Political Science	'We Only Want the Earth': Relations between Labour and Indigenous Land Defenders.
Houle, Simon	Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières	Management, Business, Administrative Studies	Towards a business and societal understanding of psychological health at work: Individual, business, and societal determinants and implications of a psychologically healthy workforce.
Jones, Samantha Photo courtesy of: Silver Sabre Media Group	University of Northern British Columbia	Interdisciplinary Studies	Poetic forecasts: Using creative practices to anticipate wellness challenges and needs in a changing climate.
Koralesky, Katie	University of Prince Edward Island	Education	Evaluating the train-the-trainer model to promote responsible antimicrobial use on dairy farms.
Lainesse, Louise	Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières	History	L'expérience féminine du deuil au Québec (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles).
Nivison, Marissa Photo courtesy of: Lauren Eales	University of Calgary	Psychology	Synthesizing Knowledge and Building Applied Understanding of Adult Attachment and its Impacts on Relationships and Functioning: The Adult Attachment Interview and Data Exchange Project.
Paillé, Mathieu	Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft	Linguistics	The semantics of prototype-sensitive vocabulary: a linguistic investigation into conceptual structure.
Papale, François	McGill University	Philosophy	Epistemological analysis of the impact of AI on science: AlphaFold and evolutionary biology as a case study.
Reid, Darren	University of Alberta	History	Dinosaurs in the Pocket of Big Energy: Exploring the impact of energy corporation investments in dinosaur museums on the development of Alberta's fossil fuel industry, 1910-2015.
Rice, Mskwaankwad Photo courtesy of: Patrick O'Leary	Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University	Linguistics	Wiikaa na gii-wiindmoon iiw? A bilingual annotated collection of searchable stories from Wasauksing First Nation.
Rizk, Anthony	Université de Sherbrooke	Anthropology	Lebanon's Lost Isolates: Microbes as memory objects, re-situated knowledge and the diasporic character of Lebanese microbiology.
Shipton, Leah	Georgetown University	Political Science	Global health at a critical juncture: Tracing the power and limits of the local production of medical technologies norm in the post-pandemic global health arena.
TeBokkel, Nathan	The University of Western Ontario	Literature, Modern Languages	Working Feeling: Affect, Agriculture, Romanticism.
Teoh, Yi Yang	Brown University	Psychology	A shared understanding of emotion facilitates social connection.
Tollefson, Hannah	University of Toronto Scarborough	Geography	Rising Tides, Sinking Ships: The Media and Politics of Maritime Shipping Decarbonization.
Veillette, Anne-Marie	Queen's University	Urban And Regional Studies, Environmental Studies	From Fear to Terror and Back Again : Women Transforming the City from Marginalized and Peripheral Neighborhoods in Latin America.

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2025-07-09