The CDTRP’s 11th Annual Scientific Meeting is coming soon, and we hope to see you there. This year’s event will be in a hybrid format, with the in-person component in Calgary, AB, on December 3-4, 2024. We were delighted to have Dr. Chantal Bémeur | Theme Lead (Theme 5) and Dr. Jonathan Choy | Theme Lead (Theme 4) as our Co-Chairs. They were supported by a planning committee of CDTRP researchers, trainees, and patient, family, and donor partners.
Thank you to our sponsors for helping us make our Annual Scientific Meeting a success!
Trainee Travel Awards
More information can be found here: Trainee_Travel_Award_TOR.
For the 2024 ASM, the CDTRP is offering $10,800 to support trainee travel and registration costs, committed through the Research Services Platform to successful CDTRP researchers’ grant applications. We are proud to offer support to 24 trainees through this program.
We are also pleased to announce that the trainee’s abstract submissions will also qualify to participate in the ‘Cross-Talking: Disseminating and Co-creating Research in Transplantation’ session. Led by Dr. Jonathan Choy, Professor of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry at Simon Fraser University, and Ms. Ke Fan Bei, 4th-year Immunology PhD student at the University of Toronto, this interactive session focuses on basic immunology and facilitate learning opportunities on how to write lay summaries. This session aims to improve collaboration and knowledge exchange between researchers and patients, families, and donors, and develop skills in writing lay summaries.
Participants will benefit from two educational webinars prior to the in person ASM meeting, an interactive session at the ASM, and an opportunity to publish their lay summary in the CDTRP newsletter. This is a unique in-person opportunity for trainees and patients, families and donors to exchange research and lived knowledge in the creation of a lay summary.