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Congratulations to the following postdoctoral scholars and their supervisors on receiving a CIHR Postdoctoral Research Award (CPRA)

Billion and Wright Lab – Dr. Fatemeh Mashayekhi; Building the First Made-in-Canada Base Editing Pipeline for Inborn Errors of Immunity: Proof-of-Concept in ADA-SCID Q3X

Lee and Morrissy Lab – Dr. Enoch Tin; Developing Novel Chimeric Antigen Receptor Double-negative T-cell Therapy for Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Dufour and Lu Lab – Dr. Kyle Lesack; Improved Prediction of Strictures in Crohn's Disease Using Machine Learning

2026 Enbridge Tour Alberta for Cancer

Graduate student Danae McCulloch, supervised by Dr. Javier Alfaro, participated in the 2026 Enbridge Tour Alberta for Cancer. Through the event, Danae supported fundraising for cancer research in Alberta while raising awareness of neurofibromatosis type 1, or NF1, a rare genetic tumour predisposition condition.

BMB DGA

DGA members:

Mikhaela Slavin (President), Liam Wilkinson (VP PhD), Anja Elsenhans (VP MSc), Joshua David (VP Finance), Armaan Mohan (Public relations and communications officer), Gabrielle Peckham (Secretary)

Members-at-large – Dorian Rojas-Villalta, Vincent Dang