PRiME Trainees Awarded Industry-Partnered Fellowships

Partnerships and internships for trainees are a key step in cultivating transferable skills in the next generation of scientists. Through the PRiME Industry-Partnered Fellowship Program, two exceptional trainees received funding to further their research with industry collaborators.

Dr. Louis-Philippe Picard, a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Scott Prosser's lab, is working on rapid discovery of nanobodies as next-generation therapeutics for G Protein-Coupled Receptors (GPCRs). He was awarded a two-year Mitacs Elevate fellowship; working with KisoJi Biotechnology, the team is demonstrating the application of bivalent nanobodies in GPCR pharmacology.

Dr. Jiaxi Peng, a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Aaron Wheeler's lab, was also awarded an Elevate fellowship. Using the Wheeler lab's DISCO platform for single-cell proteomics, his project with SCIEX aims to develop a next-generation system for analyzing proteome dynamics in stem-cell reprogramming. Prof. Wheeler commented, "I am thrilled that Dr. Peng is being recognized in this way."