O'Brien Centre Summer Studentships (OCSS)
OCSS - 2026 Student Profiles
The O’Brien Centre Summer Studentships are meant to encourage students to undertake an experiential opportunity in a health research setting at the University of Calgary.
Aarushi V.
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Title of Research: Mechanistic Crosstalk Between Autophagy and Heat Shock Proteins in Prion Infection
Supervisor Name: Dr. Hermann Schaetzl
Ali B.
Major: Health and Society
Title of Research: Applying Data-Driven Queueing Methods for Health Resource Planning
Supervisor's Name: Dr. Na Li
Ayesha J.
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Title of Research: Co-Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating Kickstand360: A Learning Health System
Supervisor's Name: Dr. Jennifer Zwicker
Caitlyn H.
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Title of Research: White Matter Fiber Density Correlates With Motor and Balance Outcomes in Children Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Supervisor's Name: Dr. Catherine Lebel
Daniyal S.
Major: Health and Society
Title of Research: Sustainable Practices in Rheumatology Care: An Environmental Scan of Toolkits to Advance Planetary Health
Supervisor's Name: Dr. Claire Barber
Debjani C.
Major: Health and Society
Title of Research: Associations Between Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences and Epigenetic Age Acceleration in Children
Supervisor's Name: Dr. Deborah Dewey
Divjot B.
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Title of Research: A Closed-Loop Brain-Computer Interface to Restore Oxygen-Driven Blood Pressure and Breathing Control After Spinal Cord Injury
Supervisor's Name: Dr. Aaron Phillips
Elisabeth G.
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Title of Research: Characterizing lymphangiogenic effects of biomaterial and biomaterial-immune cell interactions
Supervisor's Name: Dr. Justin Deniset
Ghazel A.
Major: Bioinformatics
Title of Research: Integrated Bioinformatics Analysis of Potential Genes in Rare Gynecological Cancers
Supervisor's Name: Dr. Reda Alhajj
Hunter S.
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Title of Research: Investigating genetic epistasis during craniofacial development
Supervisor's Name: Dr. Benedikt Hallgrimsson
Jaanya L.
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Title of Research: The Contributions of Different and Overlapping Stroke Etiologies in Stroke Recurrence Risk
Supervisor's Name: Dr. Aravind Ganesh
Jocelyn S.
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Title of Research: Characterizing Hyperoxia Mechanisms in a Kainic Acid-Induced Status Epilepticus Model
Supervisor's Name: Dr. Gordon Campbell Teskey
Jordan C.
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Title of Research: Mapping Revascularization and Reinnervation in Wound Healing
Supervisor's Name: Dr. Jeff Biernaskie
Josh B.
Major: Health and Society
Title of Research: Epidemiology of Functional/Dissociative Seizures in Alberta
Supervisor's Name: Dr. Nathalie Jette
Co-Supervisor's Name: Dr. Colin Josephson
Julie C.
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Title of Research: Understanding How Early-Life Stress Shapes the Desire for Cannabis
Supervisor's Name: Dr. Matthew Hill
Mika H.
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Title of Research: Understanding Women’s PCOS Diagnostic Experiences: Insights from a Pan-Canadian Survey
Supervisor's Name: Dr. Jamie Benham
Nathan B.
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Title of Research: SIGLEC1: A Serological Biomarker for Interstitial Lung Disease Biomarker in Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies
Supervisor's Name: Dr. Eugene Krustev
Neala C.
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Title of Research: Testing the link between neural and vascular defects in Cerebral Small Vessel Disease
Supervisor's name: Dr. Sarah Childs
Karina T.
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Research title: Intravenous Thrombolysis vs Non-Thrombolytic Standard Care for Lacunar Ischemic Stroke: A Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis
Supervisor: Dr. Ronda Lun
Ramih H.
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Title of Research: One Origin, Two Destinies, One Logic: How Neurons and Pigment Cells Share Polarity
Supervisor's Name: Dr. Sarah McFarlane
Saachi D.
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Title of Research: Building a Monoclonal Antibody Discovery Pipeline Targeting Pseudomonas aeruginosa Outer Membrane Proteins
Supervisor's Name: Dr. Alexei Savchenko
Samantha G-R.
Major: Bioinformatics
Title of Research: Developing and Analyzing a Canadian National Registry for Inborn Errors of Immunity
Supervisor's Name: Dr. Nicola Wright
Saniya A.
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Title of Research: Optimizing DNA Extraction Methods for Low-Input Neuronal Nuclei Derived from sEEG Depth Electrodes
Supervisor's Name: Dr. Karl Martin Klein
Talia Z.
Major: Biomedical Sciences
Title of Research: Modeling NOTCH/HES1-Mediated Germ Cell Development in Pig iPSC-Derived Gastruloids
Supervisor's Name: Dr. Jack (Li-Fang) Chu