Jennifer Bruin, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences, received a L’Oréal-UNESCO Research Excellence Fellowship from L’Oréal Canada and the Canadian Commission for UNESCO.
Dr. Bruin, a member of Dr. Timothy Kieffer’s lab in the Diabetes Research Group, is developing ways to produce pancreatic islets from stem cells. Her work has been published in the leading journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The L’Oréal-UNESCO Research Excellence Fellowships, worth $20,000 each, reward excellence and support major research projects undertaken by Canadian women working at the post-doctoral level. Recipients are selected by a jury of experts.
Left to right: Mr. Philippe Zeller, Ambassador of France to Canada, Honourable Rona Ambrose, Minister of Public Works and Government Services and Minister for Status of Women, Dr. Célia Jeronimo and Dr. Jennifer E. Bruin, recipients of the Research Excellence Fellowships, Ms. Emily Choy and Ms. Grace Murphy, recipients of the Canadian National Mentoring Fellowships, Mr. Javier San Juan, President and CEO, L’Oréal Canada. (CNW Group/L’Oréal Canada)
The 2012 fellowships were presented at the L’Oréal Canada For Women and Science Program with the support of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO awards ceremony which took place at the Embassy of France in Ottawa on November 22, 2012.