Québec’s Chief Scientist, Rémi Quirion, is pleased to announce the July winners of the Étudiants-chercheurs étoiles Award, a competition spearheaded by the three Fonds de recherche du Québec.
Award winner, Fonds Nature et technologies
Alexandre Bigot, Ph.D. student in biomedical engineering at the École Polytechnique
Winning article: Magnetic Resonance Navigation of a Bead Inside a 3-Bifurcation PMMA Phantom Using an Imaging Gradient Coil Insert
Published in IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 30, 3, 2014
Award winner, Fonds Santé
Jolyane Meloche, Ph.D. student in experimental medecine at the Université Laval
Winning article: Role for DNA damage signaling in pulmonary arterial hypertension
Published in Circulation, 2014;129:786-797
Lauréate du Fonds Société et culture
Fanny-Alexandra Guimond, Ph.D. student in psychology at the Université du Québec à Montréal
Winning article: Gene–environment interplay in the link of friends’ and nonfriends’ behaviors with children’s social reticence in a competitive situation
Published in Developmental Psychology, 2013
In addition to promoting careers in research, the competition aims to recognize the exceptional research contributions of college and university students, postdoctoral fellows and members of professional bodies who are enrolled in advanced research training programs in the areas covered by the three Fonds de recherche du Québec.
Every month, each Fund will award $1,000 to a student researcher.
Dr. Quirion sends his congratulations to the winners.
Source:
Benoit Sévigny
Director of Communications and knowledge mobilization
Fonds de recherche du Québec
514 864-1619
benoit.sevigny@frq.gouv.qc.ca