Awards and Honours

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"

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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."