Awards Archives - Leila Mostaço-Guidolin, PhD. /mostacoguidolin/category/news/awards/ ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University Sun, 02 Jun 2024 22:54:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.1 Tünde and Natasha awarded external scholarships /mostacoguidolin/2024/tunde-and-natasha-awarded-external-scholarships/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tunde-and-natasha-awarded-external-scholarships Mon, 03 Jun 2024 13:41:28 +0000 /mostacoguidolin/?p=433 Two graduate students from our team were awarded prestigious scholarships!

Tünde Lapohos received the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) in 2024/25. Tünde is working on the development of in vitro tissue models to track how cellular responses might be affected by different biomaterials and design strategies.

Natasha Kunchur was awarded a CIHR Doctoral Scholarship which will support her studies focused on mapping biochemical changes in airways using Raman micro spectroscopy and machine learning.

Congratulations to both!!!

]]> Nadia is the winner of the ‘People’s Choice’ 3MT competition! /mostacoguidolin/2024/nadia-is-the-winner-of-the-peoples-choice-3mt-competition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nadia-is-the-winner-of-the-peoples-choice-3mt-competition Sun, 02 Jun 2024 02:13:51 +0000 /mostacoguidolin/?p=429 Nadia did an excellent job at the annual ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ 3MT competition presenting her research with the talk Breath of Life in just 3 minutes. She ended up winning the People’s Choice award in the 2024 edition.

The lab was also represented by Tünde who ended up being a finalist, presenting  . Tünde just started her Master’s and is already out there showing case her research.

Congratulations to both!

More information and the videos of the presentations can be found .

]]> Natasha has been awarded two(!!) national scholarships /mostacoguidolin/2023/natasha-has-been-awarded-two-national-scholarships/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=natasha-has-been-awarded-two-national-scholarships Thu, 28 Sep 2023 20:28:57 +0000 /mostacoguidolin/?p=418 Natasha Kunchur, a PhD student in our team, has been awarded two highly competitive national scholarships!

Natasha accepted the award sponsored by the Canadian Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Foundation (), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (). The award is supporting her research in asthma: Mapping airway remodelling in asthma using multimodal Raman-Second Harmonic Generation imaging and machine learning. More information, as well as her bio, can be found .
She was also awarded (and declined) a PhD scholarship from the .
Congratulations, Natasha!
]]> Dr. Mosta̤o-Guidolin is now a Canada Research Chair! /mostacoguidolin/2023/dr-mostaco-guidolin-is-now-a-canada-research-chair/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dr-mostaco-guidolin-is-now-a-canada-research-chair Thu, 28 Sep 2023 20:19:58 +0000 /mostacoguidolin/?p=412 Dr. Mosta̤o-Guidolin was awarded a in the area of Imaging and Biomaterials Characterization. With her great team, Dr. Mosta̤o-Guidolin is developing imaging methods to understand fibrosis better and its role in chronic lung diseases. The team is focused on combining 3D bioprinting and optical microscopy, looking at the changes happening in the extracellular matrix (ECM) Рespecially collagen fibers.

You can read the full announcement , her new and check out the social media posts on and .

Congratulations!

]]> Poster Competition Winners at the TEAM Hub Workshop! /mostacoguidolin/2023/new-paper-alert-3d-bioprinting-vascular-networks-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-paper-alert-3d-bioprinting-vascular-networks-2 Fri, 14 Jul 2023 02:18:35 +0000 /mostacoguidolin/?p=408 The 1st TEAM Hub Workshop happened at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University on June 26-28th, 2023. We had a chance to listen to amazing talks in several areas, connect with experts from different institutions and of course, visit posters presented by several trainees. The research presented by all trainees was very interesting and the poster judges had a very hard time deciding on the winners of all 3 poster competitions.

We are happy to share that 2 of our PhD students, Nadia Abzan and Natasha Kunchur, got 3rd place awards at the 1st TEAM Hub workshop!

Nadia did a great job explaining her research in lay terms, winning the prize in the ‘Knowledge Translation category with the poster titled ‘The breathtaking mystery!‘, where she explained her journey in developing 3D airway models to better understand the mechanisms involved in asthma.

Natasha secured her prize in the category ‘Technology and Applications’, with the poster ‘Mapping Airway Remodeling in Asthma using Multimodal Raman-Second Harmonic Generation Imaging and Machine Learning’. Her ambitious project combining imaging and machine learning caught the attention of the judges.

Congratulations, Nadia and Natasha!

If you want to read more about the workshop, please check it . It will happen again in 2025!

Left to right: Natasha (PhD student), Dr. Leila Mostaço-Guidolin, Nadia (PhD student) and Aroosha (PhD student). 

]]> Winner of ‘Outstanding Research Competition’ at CMBEC45! /mostacoguidolin/2023/winner-of-outstanding-research-competition-at-cmbec45/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=winner-of-outstanding-research-competition-at-cmbec45 Wed, 24 May 2023 17:07:37 +0000 /mostacoguidolin/?p=400 Last week, Dr. Mostaço-Guidolin was in Vancouver BC, participating in the 45th Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Conference. Besides being lucky to have nothing less than perfect sunny weather on the beautiful West Coast, the team was awarded the 1st prize for the ‘Outstanding Research Competition’, with the work titled: Visualization of Fibrillar Collagen Networks Using Label-Free Nonlinear Optical Microscopy: Deciphering the ECM Structure of 3D-Bioprinted Constructs. 

This work was part of Shahad Shakir’s recently concluded Master’s in Biomedical Engineering and was done in collaboration with Dr. Murugkar from ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´’s Physics Department and the NRC.

Congratulations, team!

]]> We have a 3 Minute Thesis awardee!!! /mostacoguidolin/2022/we-have-a-3-minute-thesis-awardee/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=we-have-a-3-minute-thesis-awardee Fri, 08 Apr 2022 15:09:30 +0000 /mostacoguidolin/?p=339 On April 6th, ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University hosted its annual 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition and we had a representative from our lab there. Natasha Kunchur presented her talk ‘Asthma: The Breath Taking Experience‘ and was awarded 3rd place in the competition!

You can find the full results here.

Great job, Natasha! :)

]]> Congratulations Natasha! /mostacoguidolin/2022/congratulations-natasha/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=congratulations-natasha Fri, 08 Apr 2022 15:03:44 +0000 /mostacoguidolin/?p=336 Natasha has been awarded the Ontario Graduate Scholarship! Natasha’s work is related to developing machine learning-based methods to identify biomarkers related to tissue remodelling happening in asthma.

Congratulations, Natasha!

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