MBIM Awards

A record of awards from MBIM community memebrs over the years. 

• July 18, 2019 - Dr. Carolina Tropini recevies MSFHR 2019 Scholar award 
• May 27, 2019 - Dr. Marcia Graves awarded UBC 2018-2019 Killam Teaching Prize 
• April 19, 2019 - Linda Horianopoulos, PhD Student - Kronstad lab, awarded 2018-2019 Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award 
• May 17, 2018 - Evelyn Sun, PhD Candidate - Hancock lab, awarded 2017-2018 Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award 
• November 2, 2017 - Dr. Ali Tehrani receives Alumni Builder Award 
• September 5, 2017 - UBC Department of Microbiology and Immunology receives Alfred Scow Award for Student Development 
• April 20, 2017 - Dr. David Oliver awarded 2017 Killam Teaching Prize
• April 11, 2017 - Dr. William Mohn awarded Fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology 
• June 28, 2016 - Dr. Robert Hancock awarded University Killam Professorship 
• June 6, 2016 - Karen Smith awarded UBC 2015-2016 Killam Teaching Prize 
• May 31, 2016 - Dr. Bill Mohn receives CSM Murray award 
• February 17, 2016 - Gunjan Mhapankar, MBIM undergraduate student, awarded The Queen's Young Leaders Award 
• January 27, 2016 - Jacqueline Siu, MBIM undergradute student, recognized as a Wesbrook scholar and awarded the Harold B. & Nellie Boyes Memorial, and the Harry Logan Memorial Premier scholarship 
• November 30, 2015 - Robert Ragotte, MBIM undergraduate student, awarded Rhodes Scholarship 
• August 13, 2015 - Darlene Birkenhead, graduate program coordinator, awarded a 2015 UBC President's Staff Award 
• July 15, 2015 - Postdoctoral Fellows Stefanie Vogt, Brett Eyford, Lisa Reynolds, and Ashley Hilchie awarded 2015 MSFHR Research Trainee Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards 
• July 9, 2015 - Dr. Charles Thompson and Dr. Julian Davies awarded a special grant for "Innovative approaches to address antibacterial resistance." 
• July 8, 2015 - Anastasia Hyrina, PhD student - Jean lab, awarded the 2015 International Society for Antiviral Research (ISAR) - Women in Science (WIS) Career Development Award for her work on dengue virus and hepatitis C virus
• April 21, 2015 - Dr. Sean Crowe selected as Peter Wall Institute Wall Scholars for 2015-2016 
• March 3, 2015 - Dr. Martin Hirst and his lab play key role in the NIG Epigenetic roadmap project 
• January 31, 2015 - Citlali Ana Marquez Hernandez, Phd student - Horwitz lab, awarded inaugural New Careers in Immunology Fellowship 
• January 31, 2015 - Dr. Steven Hallam receives Killam Faculty Research Fellowship 
• December 11, 2014 - Dr. Steven Hallam selected as a 2015 Leopold Leadership Fellow 
• November 26, 2014 - Dr. Dave Oliver awarded a UBC Science Centre for Learning and Technology (SCLT) development grant 
• October 22, 2014 - Dr. Bob Hancock, Tier 1 CRC in "New Anti-infective Strategies" has been renewed for another 7-year term 
• October 22, 2014 - Dr. Lindsay Eltis named a Tier 1 CRC in "Microbial Catabolism and Biocatalysis" 
• September 20, 2014 - Dr. Brett Finlay awarded the 2014 Prix Galien Canada award 
• July 13, 2014 - Dr. Georgia Perona-Wright recevied 2014 MSFHR Scholar Award 
• May 5, 2014 - Dr. Julian Davies elected to the National Academy of Sciences (US) 
• March 11, 2014 - Kate Sedivy-Haley, Phd candidate - Hancock lab, recevived the 2013 Vanier award for her work in developing screening techniques using ES-cell derived macrophages 
• November 25, 2013 - Dr. Steven Hallam named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• November 8, 2013 - Dr. Pauline Johnson honoured by the Minerva Foundation for BC Women at the 8th annual "Women In" luncheon for significantly impacting her community and beyond through leadership, excellence, philanthropy and service. 
• October 21, 2013 - UBC iGEM advances to the World Championships (Boston, Massachusetts) 
• July 4, 2013 - Dr. Georgia Perona-Wright awarded prestigious CIHR New Investigator salary award 
• July 4, 2013 - Dr. Ken Harder and Dr. Brett Finlay receive 5-year CIHR operating grants in latest competition
• May 14, 2013 - Darlene Birkenhead and Tim Jayme receive 2012-2013 Faculty of Science Achievement Awards
• April 22, 2013 - Dr. Joanne Fox and Dr. Steven Hallam receive 2012-2013 UBC Killam Teaching Prize 
• January 10, 2013 - Dr. Julian Davies receives the ABBOTT-ASM Lifetime Achievement Award 
• January 10, 2013 - Dr. Bob Hancock receives 2012 Prix Galien Canada and the 2012 Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal 
• January 10, 2013 - Dr. Mike Gold receives the 2013 Cinader Award lecturer for outstanding research contributions in the field of B cell biology, and the depth and breadth of his contributions to the community through research, teaching, and service both locally and nationally 
• January 10, 2013 - Dr. Brett Finlay receives 2012 Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal 
• November 20, 2011 - Dr. Julian Davies awarded honorary doctorate (Doctor of Science, honoris causa) from McGill University as well as the Society for General Microbiology Prize Medal 
• October 6, 2011 - Emma-Kate Loveday, Phd candidate, won gold in the CSHRF 2011 National Student Research Poster competition at the University of Manitoba for her exciting research on "MicroRNAs-Novel regulators involved in the pathogenesis of influenza A." 
• October 5, 2011 - Patrick Ho, IT manager in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, awarded a President's Staff Award in the area of "Emerging Leadership" 
• April 19, 2011 - Two LSI researchers - Prokecy Leader Dr. Lindsay Eltis and Co-Leader Dr. William Mohn lead $7.9 million Genome Canada Applied Research Project Grant 
• March 17, 2011 - Dr. Lindsay Eltis elected as 2011 Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology 
• February 14, 2011 - Dr. Bob Hancock winner of the Killam award for Excellence in Mentoring 
• February 14, 2011 - Dr. Lindsay Eltis winner of a 2010 UBC Killam Research Prize 
• February 4, 2011 - Nita Shah, graduate student, is the winner of the John Richard Turner Award, an $8,000 award endowed through a bequest by John Richard Turner to support genetic research by graduate students in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology 
• January 5, 2011 - Graduate students Adam Plumb (Abraham lab), Emma-Kate Loveday (Jean lab), Shannon Russell (Finlay lab), and Jennifer Geddes (Kronstad lab) receive the 2011 Robert Emmanuel and Mary Day Endowment Travel Award 
• July 6, 2010 - Graduate students Anson Chan (Murphy lab), Grace Poon (Johnson lab), Nita Shah (Fernandez lab) receive the 2010 Robert Emmanuel and Mary Day Endowment Travel Award 
• June 3, 2010 - Dr. Judith (Max) Silverman wins annual prize competition for the Top Graduating Doctoral Student in April, 2010 
• November 22, 2006 - Dr. Bob Hancock recognized as one of Canada's top health researchers at the 5th annual Canadian Health Research Awards