The CGS M Awards Program supports students in all research disciplines and is administered jointly by Canada’s three federal granting agencies: the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). The selection process is carried out at the university level. The value of this award is $17,500 for 12 months.

• Katarina Iacobucci
• Kristi Lichimo
• Zoya Adeel
• Justin Alvardo
• Denise Catacutan
• Lena Darwish
• Charlotte Fletcher
• Sakshi Karwasra
• Claire Morris
• Angela Schmidt
• Caylie Shull
• Serena Yang
• Claire Morris
• Jake Colautti

The CGS M Awards Program supports students in all research disciplines and is administered jointly by Canada’s three federal granting agencies: the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). The selection process is carried out at the university level. The value of this award is $17,500 for 12 months.

• Enzo Baracuhy
• Ryan Amini
• Cheryl Tong

• Germain Sophie Ngana – MD/PhD (2021-24) – $50,000/year

The NSERC-D awards provide financial support to high-caliber students who are engaged in an eligible doctoral program in the natural sciences or engineering field in Canada. The value of the CGS-D award is $35,000 per year for 36 months and PGS-D is $21,000 per year for 36 months.

• Rabia Fatima – (2021-24)
• Nathan Roberge – (2022-25)
• Evan Shepherdson – (2021-24)
• Dana Sowa – (2022-25)
• Luke Yaeger –  (2022-25)
• Erica Yeo – (2022-25)
• Tess Wilson (2023-2026)
• Tony Chen (2022-2025)
• Daniel Marko (2022-2025)

The Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) and The Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (QEII-GSST) programs provide funding to students at the master’s and doctoral levels. The value of the award is $15,000 for 12 months.

• Andrea Alexei
• Christine Cerson
• Sommer Chou
• Victoria Coles
• Allyson Moore
• Vithushan Surendran
• Dominique Tertigas
• Veronica Tran
• Yona Tugg
• Monica Warner
• Prakhar Shah
• Alannah Wilson
• Dev Harman

Ontario Graduate Fellowships (OGF) provide funding to graduate students at the masters and doctoral level. The value of the award is $12,000 for 12 months.

• Megan Tu
• Sahil Karnani
• Alexandra Barkhouse

This annual award is presented to biochemistry and biomedical sciences graduate students for highly meritorious contributions to scientific literature published or accepted for publication in 2021.

• Evan Shepherdson
• Michael D’Agostino
• Nathan Bullen

The Karl Freeman Prize is awarded annually to graduate students in the department who are deemed to have presented the most outstanding graduate seminars. This prize was established in 2001 by Karl Freeman, chair of the Department of Biochemistry from 1973-79 and acting chair for six months during 1982.

• Evan Shepherdson (1st Place, PhD)
• Rebecca Burchett (2nd Place, PhD)
• Ikram Qaderi (1st Place, MSC)
• Yona Tugg (2nd Place, MSc)

The enrichment fund has been established to encourage and offer financial support to promising researchers as they begin their careers with the Faculty of Health Sciences. The number of awards depends on annual funding. The value of this award is $3,000 each.

• Evan Shepherdson
• Nathan Bullen
• Shuwn Qian
• Ken Rachwalski
• Patrycja Jazwiec
• Amany Al-Anany

The scholarship is intended to award a Biochemistry graduate student who shows the greatest potential upon successful entry into the PhD program from the MSc program. This award was established in memory of Dr. Thomas Neilson by his family, friends and colleagues as a token of their appreciation and respect.

• Monica Warner

The Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies, a granting agency of the Quebec government, provides these awards based on competitions held to determine the highest level of achievement.

• Marie-Ange Massicotte

The purpose of this funding program is to support growth and innovation in the next generation of diverse cancer researchers across Canada at the Master’s, Doctoral and Postdoctoral levels. This program will support individuals in conducting cancer related research while fostering long term connections with Canada’s cancer research ecosystem through a combination of exposures to other disciplines, knowledge translation, engagement, and mentorship opportunities. Recognizing the impact of systemic and structural racism and discrimination on trainees in the cancer research community, CCS and its partners endeavour to address racism and discrimination in multiple ways including equitable research policies and practices

• Yujin Suk