Postdoctoral News
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Postdoctoral researchers Ulrich Braunschweig (Blencowe lab) and Muhammad Rizwan (Shoichet lab) win for advances in gene regulation and tissue engineering
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Postdoctoral researchers Mojca Mattiazzi Ušaj (Boone/Andrews lab) and Shuailong Zhang (Wheeler lab) won the 2020 Research Excellence Awards for harnessing AI for biological applications.
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Postdoctoral researchers Shraddha Pai (Bader lab) and Michael Aregger (Moffat lab) won the 2019 Research Excellence Awards for research that helps advance precision medicine.
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Postdoctoral researchers Thomas Gonatopoulos-Pournatzis (Blencowe lab) and Wei Zhang (Sidhu lab) have been awarded for their cross-disciplinary research in molecular biology.
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Dr. Wei Zhang is now Assistant Professor at the University of Guelph. We asked him to share tips on how to win a faculty position on the Canadian job market.
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Dr. Jolanda van Leeuwen told us about what it takes to become a PI as she prepares to take on that role at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.
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Dr. Michael Garton is now Assistant Professor at U of T's Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering but his research career did not start until after a climbing accident left him paralyzed.
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Dr. Wei Zhang is a postdoc in the Sidhu lab where he engineers proteins for research and clinical applications. he was awarded the 2016 Outstanding Innovation Award for his research on virus-fighting proteins.