Graduate students compete in the Finals

After more than 12 departmental heats and 135 participants, it has come down to the top ten!

Final event: Thursday, March 14, 5 – 7 pm

This year’s UBC 3MT Final event is happening at Thea’s Lounge (on the second floor of the Graduate Life Building, 6371 Crescent Rd). Come support participants and cheer them on, whether virtually or in person.

  1. Katherine Baillie, Office politics: studying dominant negative mutations in DNA2 to improve cancer treatment, PhD in Interdisciplinary Oncology, supervised by Dr. Peter Stirling
  2. Hiro Ito, Reimagining dementia: stories of ‘ikigai’ and how Japanese Canadians live well with dementia, MSc in Population and Public Health, supervised by Dr. Susan Cox
  3. Nada Al-Emadi, Disarming C. difficile: The Fragmented Approach, PhD in Microbiology & Immunology, supervised by Drs. Ted Steiner & Laura Sly
  4. Marina Mehling, Tree bark for clean water, PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering, supervised by Dr. Orlando Rojas
  5. Ahmed Kabil, Scared to be scarred? Prevent gut fibrosis with bile acids, PhD in Biomedical Engineering, supervised by Dr. Kelly McNagny
  6. Jamie Kwon, Developing a MicroRNA Biomarker for Oropharynx Cancer, MSc in Experimental Medicine, supervised by Dr. Cathie Garnis and Dr. Eitan Prisman
  7. Andrea Olaizola, Can CBD be used to treat Parkinson’s disease?, MSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences, supervised by Dr. Jessica Kalra
  8. Genevieve Bonnor, Athletic Motion Sensing: How to Reduce Soft Tissue Jiggle in Impact Measurement, MASc in Biomedical Engineering, supervised by Dr. Calvin Kuo
  9. Victor Sira, Robust Clock Generation for Microchips, MASc in Electrical Engineering, supervised by Dr. Sudip Shekhar
  10. Angeline Wu, When Sugar Isn’t Sweet: Glycosylation in Rheumatoid Arthritis, MSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences, supervised by Dr. Simon Wisnovsky

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