April 2023
The Crome Lab recently attended the International Transplantation Science Meeting, held at Niagara-on-the-Lake, and all attending members received an award! Congrats to Sarah, Julia, Kyle and Martin!
Sept 2022
Congratulations to Julia for receiving the OGS Scholarship award, Sinthuja for the Banting and Best Diabetes Centre-University Health Network Graduate Award, and Sarah Colpitts for the Jesse Keshin and Dina Gordon Malkin Graduate Scholarship awards!
Oct 2021
Congratulations to Sofija for successfully defending her thesis and graduating! We wish her all the best in her future plans!
May 2021
A massive congratulations to Sarah Colpitts for passing her qualifying exam!
August 2020
Congratulations to Jessica, Dorota, and James for their MITACS Research Training Awards!
May 2020
Dorota Borovsky will be joining our lab as an Applied Immunology Master’s Student! She will join the team and investigate ILC plasticity and epigenetics.
January 2020
Lab’s first year of hard work paid off! Lab was awarded two Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR) Project Grants. The first is focused on the role of innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) in kidney transplantation. The second is focused on harnessing ILCs to improve hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in patients outcomes for patients with hematological malignancies
November 2019
Successful CIHR Human Immunity Team Grant! Thrilled to be working with Dr. Megan Levings, Dr. Bruce Vercher, Dr. Stacy Ritz, Dr. Dina Papagiotoupoulos and Dr. Diane Wherrett on our project focused on innate and adaptive immune responses in T1D.
October 2019
Welcome to the lab Chris! Chris Jordan joins us for his 3rd year research project! He’ll be working with Julia to understand how different culture conditions impact NK cell cytotoxicity.
January 2023
Pleased to welcome David Luong to the lab as a co-supervised student with Dr. Gary Bader!
December 2022
We are excited to welcome Siavash Mashhouri to the lab!
May 2022
Well done to Martin and Sinthuja for passing their qualifying exams! Additionally, Sinthuja was also awarded the Natural Sciences And Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postgraduate Scholarship (PGS D) Award!
Sept 2021
Lots of awards this year! Well done to Sarah Colpitts for the Banting & Best Diabetes Centre-Novo Nordisk Studentship, as well as Julia for the Dick and Peggy Sharp Scholarship.
Feb 2021
Congratulations to Martin Mak for being awarded the CGS-M Scholarship!
October 2020
We are thrilled to welcome PhD students Martin Mak and Sinthuja Jegatheeswaran to the Crome lab!
June 2020
A big congratulations to Kyle and Julia, who have just passed their PhD qualifying exams!
March 2020
James was awarded a travel award from the Canadian Society for Immunology for the 2020 Montreal Conference.
December 2019
Welcome sarah!
Delighted that Sarah Colpitts will be joining the lab! She will focus on understanding differences in ILC responses in the context of type 1 diabetes.
September 2019
Lab begins our second year. Thank you to these grad students extraordinaire - James, Jessica, Kyle, Sofija and Julia - for making the first year so amazing!
