Canadian Society for Clinical Investigation's Young Investigator Awards: the 2004 winners.(News And Newsmakers)

Rohit Bose is in year 6 of the MD/PhD program at the University of Toronto. He is working in Dr. Jeff Wrana's lab at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital, studying the role of tumour-secreted transforming growth factor [beta] (TGF-[beta]) and its family members in disease development and homeostasis. In particular, he is interested in uncovering the mechanisms by which TGF-[beta] causes epithelial cells to acquire mesenchymal characteristics, a critical step in carcinoma invasion. In future, he plans to continue studying tumour biology to assist in the treatment of cancer patients as he pursues a possible career in clinical oncology.

John Grant is in the final year of the MD/PhD program at the University of Calgary. He completed his PhD in December 2002 under the supervision of Drs. Ron Zernicke and Nick Mohtadi. His PhD thesis was titled "Comparison of home versus physiotherapy-supervised rehabilitation programs following reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament." John's research interests include the development of clinically effective and economical orthopedic rehabilitation programs and orthopedic injury prevention. John hopes to match to an orthopedics residency in Canada and subsequently become a clinician-scientist within a university orthopedics program.

Ansar Hassan, a Montreal native, completed his medical degree in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University in 1998. He then moved to Halifax to pursue a residency in the Division of Cardiac Surgery at Dalhousie University. In addition to fulfilling his duties as a surgical resident, he enrolled in the Clinician Investigators Program, through which he is completing a PhD in clinical outcomes research. His primary area of research interest has focused on the study of geographic and sociodemographic variation and its impact on access to clinical care and on health outcomes among residents of Nova Scotia with cardiovascular disease. Following his successful completion of both surgical residency and PhD, he intends to practise as an academic cardiac surgeon with a view to combining clinical practice with health outcomes research.

Scott Johnson, a general surgery resident, is currently completing his master's degree in surgery in the Clinical Investigator Program at the University of Alberta. His research, being carried out under the supervision of Drs. David Bigam and Po-Yin ...