Awards and Honours

Shivani Mandal was awarded Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Gender and Health (IGH) SGBA+ (Sex and Gender-Based Analysis Plus) Trainee Presentation Award for Best integration of sex as a biological variable as a social determinant of health in research project at the ImmuNet Research Day 2026

Shivani Mandal was awarded 'Best Oral Presentation' at the Me2 Majumdar Research and Quality Improvement Day 2026

Marie Armbruster was awarded the prestigious Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (AGES) Award 2025! 

The Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship recognizes outstanding academic achievement of students pursuing graduate studies in Alberta. It was established to incent the best and the brightest students, including international students, to study in Alberta.​

This scholarship is funded through the Alberta Heritage Scholarship Fund.

Shivani Mandal was awarded 'Best Poster Presentation - Graduate Student' at the Alberta Respiratory Centre (ARC) Research Day 2025 for her poster "Chronic airway inflammation is associated with sex-differences in behaviour, neuroinflammation and the gut microbiome"

Marie Armbruster was awarded the Michael Irwin Travel Award at the PNIRS 2025 Annual Meeting in Bordeaux, France for her poster "Limited Nesting as a Preclinical Model to Study the Psychoneuroimmunology of Post-partum Suppression: A Comparison of Two Mouse Strains"

Dr. Paul Forsythe secured the 2024 Fall CIHR research grant for the project "Understanding Pulmonary Neuroendocrine Cells as Allergen Sensors and Immune Modulators"

For grant information, click here.

Dr. Ritu Mann-Nüttel was awarded 'Best Poster Presentation - Postdoc Category' at the Alberta Respiratory Centre (ARC) Research Day 2024 for her poster on "House dust mite allergen induces PAR-1 dependent CGRP release from cultured human pulmonary neuroendocrine cells".

Dr. Ritu Mann-Nüttel was awarded 'Best Poster Presentation - Postdoc Category' at the Alberta Respiratory Centre (ARC) Research Day 2023 for her poster on "House dust mite allergen induces PAR-1 dependent CGRP release from cultured human pulmonary neuroendocrine cells".

Dr. Ritu Mann-Nüttel was awarded best oral presentation for her work on "Response of human pulmonary neuroendocrine cells to house dust mite allergen" at the annual Immunet Research Symposium held at University of Alberta.

The Paul Man Award is granted to exceptional works of translational research in honor of Dr. Paul Man (University of Alberta; 1986-2001) for his remarkable contribution to translational research. 

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Dr. Ritu Mann-Nüttel was awarded this honor for her remarkable work on Pulmonary Endocrine Cells (PNECS), titled "House dust mite allergen induces PAR-1 dependent CGRP release from cultured human pulmonary neuroendocrine cells."