Young Stars

Yoo Jin Park

Yoo Jin Park

Congratulations to:

Yoo Jin Park a 4th year PhD student with Dr. Lucy Marzban ( General Surgery ) who has received an award of excellence (Gold category) for her presentation at the national Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) – Canadian student health research forum held at the University of Manitoba, June 10-12, 2014.

The presenters were doctoral students nominated by their graduate programs (top 5% of doctoral students) from universities across Canada (~120 students) to participate in this event. Yoo Jin presented her work showing that the IL-1 receptor antagonist anakinra reduces amyloid formation and enhances beta-cell survival and function in cultured human islets: implications in clinical islet transplantation.

posted : 2014-June-30