Peggy explains her research at the Stem Cell Network AGM
ICORD PhD Student Peggy Assinck has two new awards to add to her CV. Peggy recently won the “Best Poster” award at the Stem Cell Network Annual General Meeting in Calgary (November 22-24, 2010), for her poster entitled “Transplantation of Skin-Derived Precursors Differentiated into Schwann Cells (SKP_SCs) at Two Month After Spinal Cord Injury.” Last week, she won second place for her presentation at the Vancouver Coastal Health Transplantation Research Day (December 9, 2010). Peggy is a member of Dr. Wolfram Tetzlaff’s Discovery Science research group.
VCH Transplantation Research Day. Pictured from the left: Dr. Molly Shoicet (Keynote speaker, U. Toronto), Maggie Yu Yao (Steiner lab, 3rd prize poster), Megan Himmel (Levings lab, Tx Trivia contest), Ryan Hartwell (Ghahary lab, 1st prize poster), Ben Paylor (Rossi lab, 2nd prize poster), Peggy Assinck (Tetzlaff lab, 2nd prize oral), Clara Westwell-Roper (Verchere lab, 1st prize oral), Dr. Stephen Chung (Founding director, Tx Training Program), Dr. Mark Siegler (Keynote speaker, U. Chicago).
