Congratulations to: 
Dr Reza Jalili a postdoctoral research fellow with Dr. Garth Warnock (General Surgery) and Dr. Aziz Ghahary (Plastic Surgery), who has received a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Resarch (MSFHR) post-doctoral fellowship award for his work developing novel cell-based therapies for treatment of type 1 diabetes. In this project, Dr. Jalili wants to stop autoimmune destruction of insulin producing cells via injection of special type of cells that can train the immune system to become more tolerance toward beta cells.
This year, only 30 MSFHR fellowships were awarded out of more than 200 applicants.
posted : 2013-August-6