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.
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.