Awards

Awards, fellowships, and recognitions

Award / Recognition Institution / Location Date
Wiley Top Cited Article Award Certificate Journal of Cell Communication and Signaling 2025
Canadian Mitacs Science Policy Fellowship University of Victoria / BC Ministry of Health, Victoria, BC 2019–2020
Finalist team, BC Premier’s Award in Evidence-Based Design for the Children and Youth Mental Health Integrated Data Project BC Ministry of Citizens’ Services, Victoria, BC 2019
Third place for designing prosthetic hand tools at the Health and Regenerative Medicine Hackathon; award donated to Victoria Hand Project University of Victoria, Victoria, BC 2019
People’s Choice Leadership Award, Victoria Code.Hack Health Hackathon Island Health, Victoria, BC 2019
Canadian Mitacs Science Policy Fellowship University of Victoria / BC Ministry of Citizens’ Services, Victoria, BC 2018–2019
Travel award to participate in and lead an analytics team at the Hackseq Hackathon University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC 2018–2019
Travel award to participate in UBC’s career panel on postdoctoral roles in industry University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC 2018
Health and Regenerative Medicine Hackathon in-kind mentorship Award University of Victoria, Victoria, BC 2018
Honourable Mention, Brief Policy Pitch for Indigenous Reconciliation Institute of Public Administration, Victoria, BC 2018
Certificate of Distinction, Summer Institute for Evidence-Based STEM Teaching The CIRTL Network, online 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, in partnership with the Graduate Management Consulting Association University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC 2018
Rare Genomics Institute BeHEARD Technology Prize, in partnership with Addgene University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC 2017–2018
Travel award to attend the American Association for Cancer Research Conference Washington, DC, USA 2017
Amazon Web Services Cloud Research Grant University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC 2016–2017
Science Teaching Fellowship American Society for Microbiology, online 2014–2015
Siebel Stem Cell Postdoctoral Fellowship University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA 2012–2013
Graduate Student Research Award University of Toronto, Toronto, ON July 2010
Travel award, 15th Canadian Connective Tissue Conference Calgary, AB July 2009
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) CGS University of Toronto, Toronto, ON 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, 14th Canadian Connective Tissue Conference McGill University, Montreal, QC June 2008
Travel award, 47th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology San Diego, CA, USA December 2007
Queen Elizabeth II Aiming for the Top Tuition Scholarship University of Toronto, Toronto, ON September 2001