Each year, CHRIM welcomes undergraduate students who are conducting research in Manitoba to participate in our Summer Studentship competition. The Summer Studentship Awards are designed to provide exposure to career opportunities in the areas of health research for pregnant people, children, youth, and families early in post-secondary education.
Each recipient will be awarded $7,000 for a minimum of 12 weeks of full-time summer employment with a CHRIM researcher as their supervisor.
We’re thrilled to share the results for this year’s Studentship Competition. Congratulations to everyone who was selected, we are looking forward to having you in our community this summer!
2026 Summer Scholars
Fatimah Abdullah
Supervisor: Robert Schroth
Project: Understanding parents’ awareness of and views and experiences with the new Canadian Dental Care Plan
(CDCP)
Cato Keijzer
Supervisor: Brandy Wicklow
Project: Knowledge Mobilization of iCARE eGFR equation
Aryan Arora
Supervisor: Rae Spiwak
Project: Evaluating the Role of Medication Safety Boxes in the Prevention of Overdose Deaths, Unintentional
Poisoning, Suicide, and Suicide Attempts: A Scoping Review of the Literature
Avany Dela Cruz
Supervisor: Eric Hall
Project: Identifying Cytoneme Mediated Signaling in Neurogenesis
Luke Pilkey
Supervisor: Shyamala Dakshinamurti
Project: Forskolin Derivatives and the Forskolin Binding Site of Adenylyl Cyclase 6: Finding the Determinants of Selective Activity
Jamil Hreich
Supervisor: Tasmia Hai
Project: Enhancing Attention and Behavioural Regulation in School-Aged Children with ADHD: A Dual-Generation Approach Through the BRIDGE Program
Sebastian Sarte
Supervisor: Vern Dolinsky
Project: Investigating the role of SIRT3 and novel therapeutics for gestational diabetes
Anika Enns
Supervisor: Richard Keijzer
Project: Developing a fruit fly model to study abnormal lung development in babies born with a hole in the
diaphragm
Easton Vermeulen
Supervisor: Leslie Roos
Project: BEAM Indigenous Adaptation Project/UCN Project
With gratitude
Special thanks to the Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba for continuing to support CHRIM Summer Studentships. Your support directly impacts the next generation of scientists and is helping to fuel the discovery of scientific breakthroughs, treatments, and cures!