Rh Awards expand with six with six more faculty honourees.
The Rh Foundation and UM have announced the new Rh Chrysalis Awards to recognize exceptional early-career research at UM. Recipients of this new award are within their first five years of independent research and have demonstrated innovation and impact across disciplines.
For more than 50 years, the Rh Awards have been in place to support the advancement of knowledge across disciplines at UM. Funds for the Rh Awards come from the royalties of serums and medical formulae invented and perfected at UM.
“The new Rh Chrysalis Awards celebrate the emergence of new researchers as we would celebrate the emergence of a butterfly from a chrysalis,” says Dr. Mario Pinto, Vice-President (research & International). “These awards are an important opportunity for UM to celebrate researchers across disciplines who are leading transformative impacts in society. I congratulate all the recipients on this well-deserved honour.”
Maneka Malalgoda is an Associate Professor of Food and Human Nutritional Sciences with the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences. She is recognized for her research exploring wheat, as well as ancient and perennial grains to address current industry challenges to shape the future of food innovation, sustainability and health.
Jeongmin Kim is the Director of Asian Studies and an Assistant Professor of History with the Faculty of Arts. Kim is recognized for scholarship investigating transpacific linkages between East Asia and North, with particular focus on positioning women at the center of economic and military histories of the modern world.
Joe Curnow is an Associate Professor of Educational Administration, Foundations & Psychology with the Faculty of Education and Co-President of the Canadian Network of the Learning Sciences. She is recognized for the use of unique research methods to study how activists develop transformative practices to improve understanding of social change.
Lei Xing, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, is recognized for his research focused on placental factors affecting brain development in conditions such as autism. Xing’s novel multidisciplinary approach combines stem-cell derived organoids, bioinformatics and molecular techniques to expand knowledge on human brain evolution.
Shweta Mital is an Assistant Professor with the College of Pharmacy at the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences. She is recognized for her health economic research examining the effectiveness of a broad range of interventions in diseases including diabetes, cancer, obesity and asthma to inform health policy in Canada and around the world.
Inna Rabinovich-Nikitin is an Assistant Professor of Physiology and Pathophysiology with the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences and internationally recognized leader in Women’s Heart Health. Her pioneering the study of long-term cardiovascular impacts of pregnancy complications is informing the development of early diagnostic markers and therapeutic interventions filling critical public health gaps.
• Nandika Bandara (Applied Sciences), Associate Professor, Food and Human Nutritional Sciences and Canada Research Chair in Food Proteins and Bioproducts, Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences.
• Grace Han (Creative Activities), Assistant Professor, School of Art.
• Kaarina Kowalec (Health Sciences), Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences.
• Suzanne McLeod (Humanities), Assistant Professor, School of Art.
• Lucy Delgado (Interdisciplinary), Associate Professor of Educational Administration, Foundations & Psychology and Canada Research Chair in Michif and Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer Education as Wellness, Faculty of Education.
• Tyrone Woods (Natural Sciences), Assistant Professor Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science.
• Nicole J. Wilson (Social Sciences), Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Arctic Environmental Change and Governance Environment and Geography, Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources.
• Lisa Lix, Associate Dean of Research and Professor, College of Community and Global Health and Canada Research Chair in Methods for Electronic Health Data Quality, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences. She is also Director of the data science team at the George and Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation and Senior research scientist, Manitoba Centre for Health Policy.
Research at the University of Manitoba is partially supported by funding from the Government of Canada Research Support Fund.
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