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January 2011 Winner:
Ajaib (Jab) and Nirmal (Munni) Sidhoo Charities Fund Trainee Travel Grant
| Lisa is a post-doctoral fellow with Dr. Paul Rennie, Director of Laboratory Research, Vancouver Prostate Centre, and professor in the UBC Department of Urologic Sciences. The grant supported her attendance and presentation at the 6th International Conference on Oncolytic Viruses, in Las Vegas, Nevada from March 16-20, 2011.
Her presentation was titled "Vesicular Stomatitis viruses as potent intravesical agents for treatment of bladder cancer." | 
Dr. Lisa Skinner |
September 2010 Winner:
Ajaib (Jab) and Nirmal (Munni) Sidhoo Charities Fund Trainee Travel Grant
Mr. Ryan Hartwell | Ryan is a Masters trainee with Dr. Aziz Ghahary, Director of the British Columbia Professional Firefighters' Burn and Wound Healing Laboratory and member of the UBC Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery. The grant supported his attendance and presentation at the Biotechnology Havana 2010 in Havana, Cuba, in October 2010.
His presentation was titled "IDO expression in an allogeneic, engineered skin substitute provides protection from Tcell mediated rejection." |
September 2010 Winner:
Ajaib (Jab) and Nirmal (Munni) Sidhoo Charities Fund Trainee Travel Grant
| Elham is a PhD candidate with Dr. Emma Guns, member of the Vancouver Prostate Centre and the UBC Department of Urologic Sciences. The grant supported her attendance and presentation at the HUPO (Human Proteome Organization) 9th World Congress in Sydney, Australia, in September 2010.
Her presentation was titled "Proteomic analysis of exosomes derived from prostate cancer cell lines." | 
Ms. Elham Hosseini-Beheshti |
May 2010 Winner:
Ajaib (Jab) and Nirmal (Munni) Sidhoo Charities Fund Trainee Travel Grant
Dr. Kilian Gust | Kilian is a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Dr. Peter Black, member of the Vancouver Prostate Centre and the UBC Department of Urologic Sciences. The grant supported his attendance and presentation at the 2010 American Urological Association meeting in San Francisco in May-June 2010.
His presentation was titled "Aberrant Sonic Hedgehog Signaling in Renal Cell Carcinoma" |
January 2010 Winner:
Ajaib (Jab) and Nirmal (Munni) Sidhoo Charities Fund Trainee Travel Grant
| Yoshiyuki is a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Dr. Alan So, member of the Vancouver Prostate Centre and the UBC Department of Urologic Sciences. The grant supported his presentation at the American Society of Clinical Oncology's 2010 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium in San Francisco, CA, in March 2010.
His presentation was titled "Blockage of sonic hedgehog pathway as a novel intravesical treatment option for high-grade bladder cancer." | 
Dr. Yoshiyuki Matsui |
September 2009 Winner:
Ajaib (Jab) and Nirmal (Munni) Sidhoo Charities Fund Trainee Travel Grant
Dr. Dirk Lange | Dirk is a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Dr. Ben Chew, member of the Stone Centre, located in the Jack Bell Research Centre and the UBC Department of Urologic Sciences. The grant supported Dirk's presentation at the World Congress of Endourology in Munich, Germany, in October 2009.
His presentation was titled "Identification of Conditioning Film Components on Indwelling Ureteral Stents and Their Role in Bacterial Adhesion." |
May 2009 Winner:
Ajaib (Jab) and Nirmal (Munni) Sidhoo Charities Fund Trainee Travel Grant
| Anna is a PhD trainee with Dr. Joyce Davison, member of the Vancouver Prostate Centre and the UBC Department of Urologic Sciences. The grant supported Anna's presentation at the Canadian Psychological Association conference in Montreal in June 2009.
Her presentation was titled "Information preferences and quality of life of men newly diagnosed with prostate cancer." | 
Dr. Anna Levin |
January 2009 Winner:
Ajaib (Jab) and Nirmal (Munni) Sidhoo Charities Fund Trainee Travel Grant
Dr. Reza Baradar Jalili | Reza is a PhD trainee with Dr. Aziz Ghahary, Director of the British Columbia Professional Firefighters' Burn and Wound Healing Laboratory and member of the UBC Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery. The travel grant supported his presentation at the International Congress of Diabetes and its Complications held in Yazd, Iran in May 2009.
His presentation was titled "Development and application of a novel non-rejectable engineered mouse islet allograft." |
September 2008 Winner:
Ajaib (Jab) and Nirmal (Munni) Sidhoo Charities Fund Trainee Travel Grant
| Xiaojie is a PhD trainee with Dr. Garth Warnock, Co-director of the Ike Barber Human Islet Transplant Laboratory and Head of the UBC Department of Surgery. This travel grant supported her presentation at the XXII International Congress of the Transplantation Society in August 2008 in Sydney, Australia.
Her presentation was titled "Local expression of B7-H4 by transducing recombinant adenovirus in islet grafts inhibits allotransplant rejection." | 
Dr. Xiaojie Wang (left) pictured with Mr. Sidhoo |
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