GSNH proudly supports The Michael Kamin Hart Memorial Scholarship in 2018 and are happy to announce this year’s recipients.
About The Scholarship
The Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research (IIDR) at McMaster University is a world-leading centre of transdisciplinary infectious disease research in the fields of virology, immunology, bacterial pathogenesis and population biology and epidemiology.
Michael Hart, the late son of Goldman Sloan Nash & Haber’s Murray Hart, was a promising 2nd-year Masters student at McMaster University pursuing research in the area of antibiotic resistance when he died from cancer. The Michael Kamin Hart Memorial Scholarship has expanded over the years and is awarded to four students at an undergraduate, Masters, PhD, and staff level who each demonstrate academic excellence and leadership – the same enthusiasm for science as Michael.
The scholarship has established itself as one of the Institute’s most prestigious awards.
On Friday, November 9, 2018 at The 8th Annual IIDR Trainee Research Day the award was presented to the following recipients:
Hanjeong Harvey for the Staff Award
Hanjeong is a lab technician in the Burrows lab. She is working on discovering phages that can defeat multi-drug resistant Pseudomonas.
Yu Fan (Peter) Zeng for the Undergraduate Award
Peter is currently a fourth-year BHSc student at McMaster. He is using genetic and genomics approaches to elucidate the role of SETX – a DNA/RNA helicase – in neurodegeneration.
Kara Tsang for the MSc Award
Kara completed her undergraduate studies in the Biomedical Discovery & Commercialization program at McMaster University and has since been working on graduate work in the McArthur lab. She is discovering how bioinformatics can be applied to improve clinical outcomes of bacterial infections and prevent the spread of antibiotic resistance.
Puja Bagri for the PhD Award
Puja completed her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at McMaster University, and then began graduate studies in the Medical Sciences program. Her research area is women’s health, with a focus on examining how sex hormones regulate immune responses in the female reproductive tract following infection with sexually transmitted viruses such as the Herpes virus (HSV-2).
Congratulations to this year’s recipients!