Misaal wins 1st place at the annual CDCR Research Day!
Misaal gave an exciting 10-minute presentation on her CAR-NK cell research at the 3rd annual CDCR Research Day and won first place!...
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May 15
Our PhD Students Win Big Awards at the 2024 FHS Graduate Plenary!
Congratulations to both Ana Portillo and Liz Balint for winning a Graduate Student Publication Award, and Emily Feng for winning an...
Apr 30
Our Lab Members Win Four Travel Awards!
Congratulations to Ana Portillo for winning a $2,000 CDCR travel award, and Emily Feng, Alexa Mansour, and Misaal Mehboob for each...
Apr 30
Our PhD Students Win Big at the 36th Annual CSI Conference!
Congratulations to Ana Portillo and Emily Feng for each winning a PhD top ranking poster prize, and Liz Balint for winning the first...
Apr 3
Liz is giving an oral talk at the Keystone Conference!
Liz has been invited to give a talk on her exciting work on bystander activated T cells in virus-induced neurological disease at the...
Apr 2
Alexa, Amelia, Adnan, and Misaal Win Graduate Student Scholarships!
Congratulations to Alexa and Amelia for winning the CGS-M scholarship and Adnan and Misaal for winning the OGS scholarship for the...
Apr 2
Ana wins 2nd place at Med Sci Research Day!
Ana presented a fascinating 10-minute oral presentation on her research at the annual Med Sci Research Day and won second place!...
Feb 16
Ana Wins Two McMaster Scholarships!
Congratulations to Ana for winning both the W. E Rawls Memorial Scholarship and the Alyssa Vito Scholarship in Cancer Research! These...
Feb 16
Emily Wins Two Travel Awards!
Congratulations to Emily for winning both the McMaster Immunology Research Centre (MIRC) and Canadian Society for Immunology (CSI) travel...
Feb 6
Liz Publishes in Nature Communications!
Congratulations to Liz Balint and other Ashkar lab members for publishing their insightful work on bystander CD8+T cell-mediated...
Nov 24, 2023
New Review Article Published in Frontiers in Immunology!
Congratulations to Ana and other Ashkar lab members for publishing a fascinating review article about strategies for recruiting and...
Nov 24, 2023
Congratulations Sophie!
Our very own Sophie Poznanski has won the Governor General's Gold Medal for her outstanding work during her PhD! We're super proud of her...
Sep 5, 2023
New Ashkar Lab students
The Ashkar Lab welcomes new students Alexa Mansour (MSc candidate), Adnan Moinuddin (MSc candidate), Bashar Alobeid (BHSc), and Arman...
Jul 25, 2023
Sophie defends her PhD thesis!
Surprising to no one, Sophie passed her PhD defence with flying colours! Congratulations Sophie, you have done amazing research at the...
Jun 9, 2023
Ashkar Lab goes to Quebec!
Emily, Liz, and Ana enjoyed hiking Mont-Orford before attending the 35th annual CSI meeting! Congratulations to Emily and Ana for their...
May 20, 2023
Inaugural CanNKC Symposium!
The Ashkar Lab hosted the inaugural CanNKC Symposium at MIP, with CanNKC members attending from across Canada! Great work to Ana and...
May 9, 2023
Plenary winners!
Congratulations to Emily and Ana for their Health Sciences Plenary awards! Ana won the Graduate Student Leadership Award and Emily won...
Apr 25, 2023
Liz wins 2nd place at Med Sci Research Day!
Liz gave a great presentation at the annual Med Sci Research Day and won 2nd place! Great job Liz!
Apr 12, 2023
Emily and Jon publish new paper!
Congratulations to Emily and Jon who published their work in The Journal of Infectious Diseases! Check it out here:...
Mar 7, 2023
Liz wins two McMaster Scholarships!
PhD student Liz Balint receives the W.E Rawls Memorial Scholarship and the Dr. Erwin Regoeczi Prize in Pathology and Molecular Medicine!...
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