Awards

Achievements, awards, recognitions

Description Location Date
Canadian Mitacs Science Policy Fellowship UVic/BC Ministry of Health, Victoria, BC 2019-2020
Finalist team for BC Premier’s Award in Evidence-Based Design for Children and Youth Mental Health Integrated data project BC Ministry of Citizens’ Services, Victoria, BC 2019
Third place for designing prosthetic hand tools at Health and Regenerative Medicine Hackathon (donation of Award to Victoria Hand Project) University of Victoria, Victoria, BC 2019
People’s choice leadership Award for Victoria Code.Hack health hackathon at Island Health Vancouver Island Hospital, Victoria, BC 2019
Canadian Mitacs Science Policy Fellowship UVic/BC Ministry of Citizens’ Services, Victoria, BC 2018-2019
Travel Award to participate and lead an analytics team at hackseq hackathon University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC 2018-2019
Travel Award to participate at UBC’s career panel discussing role of postdocs in industry University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC 2018
Health and Regenerative Medicine Hackathon in kind value in mentorship Award University of Victoria, Victoria, BC 2018
Honorable mention for Brief Policy Pitch for Indigenous reconciliation Institute of Public Administration, Victoria, BC 2018
Certificate of distinction for completing Summer Institute for Evidence-Based STEM Teaching from The CIRTL Network on-line 2018
Entrepreneurship@UBC venture building phase 1 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC March-May 2018
Mitacs Accelerate Postdoctoral Fellowship Award University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC 2015-2018
Mini-MBA Award, Partnership with Graduate Management Consulting Association University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC 2018
Rare Genomics Institute’s BeHEARD Technology Prize in partnership with Addgene University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC 2017-2018
Travel Award to attend the American Association of Cancer Research conference Washington DC, USA 2017
Amazon Web Services Cloud Research Grant University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC 2016-2017
Science Teaching Fellowship for the American Society for Microbiology on-line 2014-2015
Siebel Stem Cell Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California Berkeley California, USA 2012-2013
Graduate Student Research Award University of Toronto July 2010
Travel Award from 15th Canadian Connective Tissue Conference Calgary, AB July 2009
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)-CGS University of Toronto, Toronto, ON May 2009-2012
Ontario Textbook and Technology Grant University of Toronto, Toronto, ON December 2008
General Motors Women in Science and Mathematics Award University of Toronto, Toronto, ON April 2008
Travel Award from 14th Canadian Connective Tissue Conference McGill University, Montreal, QC June 5-7, 2008
Travel Award from the American Society for Cell Biology, 47th annual meeting San Diego, CA, USA December 2007
Queen Elizabeth II Aiming for the Top Tuition Scholarship University of Toronto, Toronto, ON September 2001