Research Manitoba Trainee Awards
Each year, the Manitoba Lung Association partners with Research Manitoba to support emerging researchers dedicated to advancing lung health. Through the Research Manitoba Trainee Awards, we proudly select and fund outstanding students with Master Studentship Awards. This year, three talented students will receive these awards to support their innovative lung health research projects. Stay tuned for updates on their groundbreaking work!
2024 Research Manitoba Studentship Recipients
- Dagem Yilma Chernet: Lung Proteomic Analysis of Patients with Postoperative Respiratory Failure after One-Lung Ventilation Surgery.
- McKay Lowry: The Role of EpOMEs and DiHOMEs on the Contractility of Airway Smooth Muscle.
- Huda Rajani: Investigate The Role of Semaphorin3E in Asthma-Induced Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition Using Primary Human Epithelial Cells
2023 Research Manitoba Studentship Recipient in partnership with Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba: Sriyani Ranatunga
Project Title: Maternal Diabetes and Smoking as Early Life Risk Factors For Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Sriyani joined Dr. Chris Pascoe’s lab in May 2022, as a MSc student. Her project focuses on understanding whether maternal exposures, namely maternal diabetes and smoking, increase susceptibility to cigarette smoke induced lung damage later in life in mice, as a surrogate for COPD risk.
Sriyani Ranatunga