Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario

Martin L. Wills High School Student Scholarship

RECIPIENTS FOR SUMMER 2009

The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario (HSFO) is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s Martin L. Wills High School Student Scholarship awards.

In memory of Martin L. Wills, a former President of HSFO who served for eleven years as Director and as President from 1961 to 1964, the Board of Directors has established scholarships to allow Ontario high school students to spend a summer in cardiovascular and/or cerebrovascular research.

These scholarships are provided annually in Ontario to introduce high school students to the field of medical research during the summer months. The scholarships are valued at $2,250.00 for a period of two months.

An official letter will be sent to all applicants and their supervisors the week of May 18, 2009. The Foundation requests that you do not write or telephone with any enquiries before receiving this letter.


 Student and Project

 Supervisor and Institution
 Jacob Louis Bastedo
 Control of heart function by the novel estrogen receptor GPR30.
  Dr W. Glen Pyle
 University of Guelph
 Rachel Gladstone
 Investigation of signaling pathways in remote ischemic
 preconditioning.
  Dr. Andrew Redington
 Hospital for Sick Children
 Chelsea G. Goodenough
 Vascular events In non-cardiac Surgery patIents cOhort
 evaluatioN study (VISION).
  Dr. Philip J. Devereaux
 McMaster University
 Amy-Jayne Jessica Hutchings
 Biomaterials for endogenous neural stem cell brain repair after
 stroke.
  Dr. Eve C. Tsai
 University of Ottawa
 Bushra Y. Joarder
 Role of Apelin and ACE2 in heart failure following myocardial
 infarction.
  Dr. Peter Liu
 Toronto General Hospital
 Ryan C. N. Lam
 Characterization of biomechanical and histological changes in
 aortic valve sclerosis.
  Dr. Craig A. Simons
 University of Toronto
 Julianna M. Lantz
 Genetic determinants of atherosclerosis: focus on metabolic
 syndrome.
  Dr. Robert Hegele
 University of Western Ontario
 Claire Lee
 Role of statins in progenitor cell therapy for chronic ischemia.
  Dr. Howard M. Leong-Poi
 St. Michael's Hospital
 Michelle J. Mayer
 Double immunofluorescence confocal microscopy to assess
 plakoglobin protein in biopsies of patients with suspected ARVC:
 evaluating this new "gold standard" against gene mutations.
  Dr. Robert M. Hamilton
 Hospital for Sick Children
 Alexander To
 Attenuating the endothelial response to transplant related injury.
  Dr. Vivek Rao
 Toronto General Hospital
 Radovan Vasic
 Long term metabolic and therapeutic effects of combined
 treatment of American ginseng and Korean red ginseng in the
 treatment of Type 2 diabetes.
 		 Dr. Vladimir Vuksan
 St. Michael's Hospital
 Jeffrey Yu
 Alteration of immunogenicity of allogenic stem cells after
 differentiation.
  Dr. Ren-Ke Li
 University of Toronto



Last Updated ( Wednesday, 02 December 2009 )