Graduates Students

The KCRU mentors numerous graduate students (both at the MSc and PhD level).

• Jarrin Penny, RN, PhD Candidate
  Improving the tolerability of HD through novel intervention and monitoring technologies
  
  Kidney Foundation of Canada Allied Heath Doctoral Fellowship (2020) Baxter Healthcare
  Young Investigator (2020)
  Satellite Healthcare Applied Pragmatic Clinical Research Collaborative (2016)
  Amgen Novice Investigator Award (2016)
  
  
• Fabio Salerno, MD, PhD Candidate
  Application of Quantitative Medical Imaging to Kidney Failure and Kidney Replacement Therapy
  
  
  • Application of multiple medical imaging techniques to several aspects associated with kidney failure requiring dialysis
  • Magnetic resonance imaging to measure tissue sodium deposits
  • investigation of lung disease with inhaled hyperpolarized xenon-129 magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography in patients with kidney failure on hemodialysis
  
  Dean's Research Scholarship 2020
  
  
• Lisa Hur, MSc, PhD Candidate
  Microcirculatory dysfunction as a target for optimizing hemodialysis patient-care.
  
  
  • Cardiac, Computed Tomography, Echocardiography, Arrhythmia, Intravital microscopy, Syndecan-1
    
    
• Janice Gomes, PhD Candidate
  Development of an Extracellular Vesicle-based biomarker of hemodialysis induced vascular injury
   
  
  • Developing a standard operating procedure for Extracellular Vesicle(EV) enumeration with nanoscale Flow Cytometry
  • Utilizing in vitro, in vivo, and observational/interventional clinical studies to understand whether EVs can be used as an indicator of hemodialysis induced microcirculatory stress
  
  Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (2020-2021)
  Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (2019-2020)
  Dr. Cameron Wallace Graduate Student Award in Pathology (2019)
  
  
• Taylor Marcus, MSc Candidate
  Sodium Assessment of the Cardiac Tissue Using Sodium Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  
  
  • Cardiac Sodium MRI

Western Graduate Research Scholarship

Previous Graduate Students

• Marat Slessarev, PhD, MD
• Raanan Marants, PhD
• Jen Chen, MSc
• Elena Qirjazi, MSc