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Funding

As Principal Investigator:
  • Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada (LLSC) Operating Grant: "N6-methyladenosine (m6A) RNA modification in Acute Myeloid Leukemia"", 2016-2018
  • Canadian Cancer Society Innovation Grant: "Investigating regulatory roles of pseudogenes and other non-coding RNAs in cancer", 2013-2015
  • CIHR Operating Grant: "Evolution and genetic variation of microRNA regulatory network in humans", 2011-2016 (Co-PI, Jeff Wrana)
  • CIHR Catalyst Grant: "Bioinformatics Approaches to Cancer Research", 2009-2010 (with four other investigators)
  • NSERC Discovery Grant: "Computational Modeing of Gene Regulation", 2009-2014
  • CIHR Operating Grant: "Bioinformatics Detection and Experimental Validation of Functional Transcripts in Mammalian Genome" 2006-2011, (Sole PI)
  • University of Toronto Connaught New Staff Matching Grant: 2007 (Sole PI)
  • University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine Dean's Fund: 2005-2006, (Sole PI)
  • University of Toronto Connaught Committee Start-up Award: 2005-2006 (Sole PI)
As Co-investigator:
  • CIHR Operating Grant: "Epigenomics of major depressive disorder: dissecting environmental, heritable, and stochastic contributions", 2014-2019 (PI: A Petronis)
  • CIHR Operating Grant: "Elucidating the Physical and Functional Interactome of Mitochondria in Yeast", 2013-2018 (PI: Mohan Babu)
  • Ontario Research Fund (ORF) - GL2: "Protein Complexes in the Epigenetics of Human Disease and Stem Cell Fate", 2010-2014 (PI: Jack Greenblatt)
  • CIHR Operating Grant: "Mapping the reference genetic network of a eukaryotic cell with automated yeast genetic analysis", 2010-2015 (PI: Charlie Boone)
  • CIHR Operating Grant: "Global Exploration of Cellular Networks and Pathways using Yeast Phenomics", 2009-2012, (PI: Charlie Boone))
  • CIHR Team Grant: "Model Organism Interactomes and Human Diseases", 2007-2012, (PI: Shoshana Wodak)
  • Genome Canada: Integrative Biology, 2006-2009, (PI: Brenda Andrews)
Awards received by PI
  • CIHR New Investigator salary award, 2008-2013
  • Early Researcher Award (Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation), 2006-2011
  • Finalist, Maud Menten Prize, CIHR - Institute of Genetics, 2006
Awards received by lab members
  • Yue Li: NSERC CGS-D (Canadian Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral), 2012-2015
  • Yue Li: C.C. Gotlieb (Kelly) Graduate Fellowship in Dept of Computer Science, 2011
  • Yue Li: NSERC Fellowship, 2010
  • Jingjing Li: Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, 2011
  • Jingjing Li: L.W. Macpherson Microbiology Award, Department of Molecular Genetics, 2010
  • Jingjing Li: Jennifer Dorrington Graduate Student Award, given by the Banting Best Department of Medical Research, 2010
  • Gabe Musso: L.W. Macpherson Microbiology Award, Department of Molecular Genetics, 2009
  • Gabe Musso: Jennifer Dorrington Graduate Student Award, given by the Banting Best Department of Medical Research, 2008
  • Jingjing Li: Roman Pakula Award, given to the best acclaimed all-round M.Sc. student by Molecular Genetics, 2008
  • Andy Pang: Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) Summer Research Fellowship, 2005