News

Ontario Graduate Scholarship Awarded

July 2023

Congratulations to Ryan for receiving funding for his work through the OGS program!

The Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) program encourages excellence in graduate studies at publicly-assisted universities in Ontario. Since 1975, the OGS program has been providing merit-based scholarships to Ontario’s best graduate students in all disciplines of academic study.

Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s (CGS-M) CIHR Award

August 2019

Congratulations to Matthew for receiving funding for his work through the CGS-M program.

The CGS-M program aims to help in the training and development of a master’s student’s research skills through financial support. This award recognizes students with a high standard of achievement in both undergraduate and early graduate studies.

2019 CIHR Summer Studentship Award

May 1, 2019

Congratulations to our new summer student Nicolle Wong on winning the CIHR Summer Undergraduate Award!

Congratulations on Ori’s Funding by the Canadian Child Health Clinician Scientist Program (CCHCSP)!

April 2019

Ori’s work is generously supported by the Canadian Child Health Clinician Scientist Program (CCHCSP), The Hospital for Sick Children Clinician Scientist Training Program, and the Ontario Ministry of Health Clinician Investigator Program.

CCHCSP is a national program aimed at nurturing clinician scientists by creating a stimulating and supportive multidisciplinary research environment. The doctoral award recognizes one trainee per year who shows promise in becoming a successful clinician scientist and a contributing member of the scientific community.

Our CIHR project grant got funded!

January 23, 2019

Super exciting! We received funding for our CIHR project grant: Transcriptional control of disease modifiers for the treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

Congratulations on Dwi’s New Adventure!

January 18, 2019

Dwi is starting her own lab at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh! We can’t wait to see what you’re up to next! Visit the Kemaladewi Lab Website here.

Dwi's Farewell Team picture

The Cohn Lab at ASHG

October 18, 2018

What a great way to represent our lab at ASHG! Dwi and Daria were semifinalists for the ASHG/ Charles J. Epstein Trainee Awards for Excellence in Human Genetics Research, and Eleonora won the Reviewer’s Choice Abstract for her poster. You go guys!

2018 ASHG awards

2018 SickKids Summer Student Symposium

August 16, 2018

Congratulations to our summer students Ido Nofech-Mozes and Seth Kibel for the Best Genetics & Genome Biology Poster and Best Oral Presentation at SickKids Summer Student Symposium!! All smiles with our Chief of Research Dr. Mike Salter.

Restracomp Scholarship

July 8, 2018

Congratulations to Steven Erwood for receiving the SickKids Restracomp award!

2018 CIHR Summer Studentship Award

April 1, 2018

Welcome back to the lab for another summer Seth, and congratulations on winning the CIHR Summer Undergraduate Award to continue your work!

Our CIHR project grant got funded! 

January 2018

We received funding for our CIHR project grant: Interrogation of genome editing applications for the treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy! Looking forward to more exciting research.

Restracomp Scholarship

August 3, 2017

Congratulations to Tatianna Wong for receiving the SickKids Restracomp award!

Starbucks Clinical Genetics/Genomics Research Studentship Award 2017

April 1, 2017

We’re excited to welcome Georgia Besant to our lab with funding from the Starbucks Clinical Genetics/Genomics Research Studentship Award.