Recognitions
Research Funding & Awards
Project Grant Funding
BrightFocus Foundation Macular Degeneration Research Award (transferred from PDF; 2023-2024)
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Funding
BrightFocus Foundation Macular Degeneration Research Award (2021-2023)
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) Research Trainee Award (2019-2022)
Edwina and Paul Heller Memorial Fund, Dr. Irene Bettinger (2017-2019)
Graduate Studies Funding
Canadian Institutes of Health Research Brain Star Award (2018)
Hotchkiss Brain Institute Trainee Publication Award (2017)
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Postgraduate Scholarship - Doctoral (2015-2016)
Dr. D. Grant Gall Graduate Traineeship (2014-2014)
Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship (2012-2014)
Alberta Graduate Student Scholarship (2012)
A frog injected with fluorescein that is glowing green under blue light. The top right of the image shows a close up of the blood vessels of the retina through the lens of the eye.
Conference Awards
BrightFocus Foundation Travel Grant. (2018). Retinal Degeneration Conference.
ARVO International Travel Grant & ARVO 'Hot Topic' Research Presentation. (2016). Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.
Best Research Presentation by a Fellow. (2018, 2019, 2020). UBC Ophthalmology Research Day.
An X. laevis retina labelled with wheat germ agglutinin (magenta; rod and cone outer segments), calbindin (green; cone inner segments and bipolar cells), vimentin (orange; Muller cells and cytoskeletal components), and Hoechst (cyan; nuclei).
Imaging Awards
ARVO Scientific Imaging Contest. (2021). Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.
1st place. Striking Image Competition. (2015). Synder Institute for Chronic Disease.
