HQP News

Trainees representing AllerGen at Canadian, international events

Three trainees will be representing AllerGen at the American Thoracic Society (ATS) International Conference in San Francisco, May 18-23, 2007.

The ATS conference is the largest meeting of pulmonary researchers and clinicians in the world. Gurpreet Singhera, a research associate from the iCAPTURE Centre in Vancouver, and Jason Pole, a PhD trainee at the University of Toronto, both had abstracts selected for poster display. MSc trainee Michelle North of the University of Toronto, has been chosen to orally present her study Arginine metabolism in murine allergic asthma in a mini-symposium.

Pole will also be attending the Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CSEB) meeting in Calgary, May 28-31, 2007. The CSEB brings together over 300 delegates undertaking research in various substantive areas, all with the common underlying focus of epidemiological methods. Pole's abstract Antenatal steroid therapy for fetal lung maturation: Is there an association with childhood asthma? has been accepted for an oral presentation.

New AllerGen-STIHR Studentships

The Fall/Winter AllerGen-STIHR competition yielded three new positions. All three trainees will be funded within the Asthma and Allergy: From molecular regulation to population health STIHR at the University of Manitoba. Congratulations to Masters students Helen Muleme (supervised by Jude Uzonna), Larisa Latoski (supervised by Kent HayGlass) and Stephanie MacPherson (supervised by Kent Hayglass).