CSN summer studentships announced

The Canadian Stroke Network is awarding a record 25 summer studentships this year.  The awards, valued at $7,000 each, are tenable for a period of four months (May 1, 2012 – August 31, 2012).

“The quality of applicants and the potential impact of their research efforts cannot be overstated,” says CSN Executive Director Katie Lafferty. “It was an extremely competitive process this year.”

Following a rigorous review of 47 applications, studentships were awarded to the following investigators and their CSN summer students. (Students’ names are in parentheses.)

Michelle Aarts, University of Toronto (Timothy Lam)

Richard Aviv, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Lauren Gordon)

David Cechetto, University of Western Ontario (Sophia Liu)

Dale Corbett, University of Ottawa (Kris Langdon)

Shelagh Coutts, University of Calgary (Shiel Patel)

Numa Dancause, Université de Montréal (Jonathan Côté)

Stella S. Daskalopoulou, McGill University (Karina Gasbarrino)

Robert Dufour, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (Valérie Leduc)

Richard Frayne, University of Calgary (Alexandra Pulwicki)

Albert Jin, Queen’s University (Shannon Zhang)

Jeffrey Jutai, University of Ottawa (Jasmine Mah)

Adam Kirton, University of Calgary (Jamie Roe)

Nicol Korner-Bitensky, McGill University (Jennifer Vissers)

Diane Lagace, University of Ottawa (Michelle Le)

R. Loch Macdonald, St. Michael’s Hospital (Mohammed Sabri)

Gerlinde Metz, University of Lethbridge (Devany Benis)

Ileana Micu, University of Calgary (Andrew Jansen)

David Park, University of Ottawa (Ali Hage)

Jeffrey Perry, Ottawa Health Research Institute (Justin Losier)

Marc Poulin, University of Calgary (Alan Elms)

Ruth Slack, University of Ottawa (Curtis McCloskey)

Eric Smith, University of Calgary (Vanessa Hill)

Richard Swartz, University of Toronto (Karen Lien)

Michael Tymianski, University Health Network (Michael Stein)

Yu Tian Wang, University of British Columbia (Nelson Lu)