HSRLCE Undergraduate Awards: HSBC Future Research Leaders Internships

The application window for the 2024 awards is now closed. The 2025 application process will open in February 2025.

The Heart & Stroke/Richard Lewar Centre of Excellence (HSRLCE, the Centre) offers summer undergraduate awards to enable students to work alongside scientists in cardiovascular research laboratories associated with the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre.

The Centre’s undergraduate awards, funded by the HSBC, are intended to support our future research leaders in the initial phase of their training. The objective of these awards is to support a robust and productive research community in Toronto. These awards are made to those who demonstrate the potential for excellence through their previous academic accomplishments and the environment in which they will work.

Recipients of the 2024/25 HSBC Future Research Leaders Internships are:

Shreya Gramolini, Physiology
PROJECT: Multi-omic Approach to Understanding the Molecular Underpinnings of End-Stage Heart Failure.
Supervisor: Dr .Phyllis Billia

Ekene Nwajei, MD Program, Cardiac Surgery
PROJECT: Efficacy of Plane Block on Postoperative Pain Control in Cardiac Surgery Patients
Supervisor: Dr. Subodh Verma

Shubh Patel, MD Program
PROJECT: Long-term Outcomes of Perceval Valve In Aortic Valve Replacement
Supervisor: Dr. Subodh Verma

Nicole Sun, Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
PROJECT: Assessing the Development of Cardiac Fibrosis during Viral Myocarditis
Supervisor: Dr. Slava Epelman

Jessica Yang, Immunology and Pharmacology
PROJECT: Characterizing the Development of Inflammatory Lesions During Viral Myocarditis
Supervisor: Dr. Slava Epelman