Alberta

Inspiring kids with the research virus The scene is similar to one outside at hockey rinks and dance studios across Canada: Parents waiting to drive their kids home. At the University of Calgary’s Department of Medicine, however, parents of some bright young teenagers find themselves sitting outside the lab of Dr Morley Hollenberg, an all-star [...]

1. Ankita Saxena, 16, from Grade 11, Westmount Charter School in Calgary aims to decipher the mechanisms behind Alzheimer’s Disease, the most common type of dementia among the elderly. She will be using unique research tools to investigate interesting, yet unexplored phenomena of the disease which may even be helpful in understanding the mechanisms of [...]

1st Place: Nikola Viktorov & Andy Le are grade 11 students from Old Scona Academic High School who won the $2000 first place prize with a study titled “Detecting the Caspase Cleavage of the JunB Protein.”  Nik & Andy worked under the supervision of Dr. Robert Ingham from the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at [...]