Congratulations to the five Queen’s grad students who are Vanier Scholarship Recipients: Julia Moreau, Dilakshan Srikanthan, Ahmed Ismaiel, Daniel Reddy, and Mahzabeen Emu! Read more about their accomplishment here: bit.ly/3R6Rvo7

ATTN: #FamilyPhysicians in the KFLA are invited to participate in this research led by myself, supervised by Dr. Amrita Roy, faculty at @QueensuFamMed @CSPC_QueensU! Survey LINK: queensu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0e… Your participation is greatly appreciated!

Had a wonderful time presenting some of my research here at CITAC #ICAM2024 in beautiful Vancouver, BC! Translational Medicine Graduate Program Queen's Health Sciences Research@Queen's University Queen's MD/PhD @AFMC_e

Congratulations Dilakshan on your successful PhD comprehensive exam!

Big thank you’s to my supervisors - Drs Parvin Mousavi, Teresa Purzner and John Rudan! Also to my examiners - Drs. Gabor Fichtinger and James Purzner for their insightful questions! Med-i Lab The Perk Lab!

The second edition of Pediatric Neuro-Oncology is out! Be sure to check out our chapter for updates on the genetics and biology of challenging pediatric brain tumours. Honoured to have worked with incredible co-authors. Read more here: t.ly/AxHKU

So inspiring to see how the field has advanced in such a short period of time! Congrats to the editors and authors of this textbook edition! Had a wonderful time co-authoring this chapter! @BTRCSickKids vijay ramaswamy James Rutka

Had the chance recently to discuss some of the advancements happening at Queen's University regarding intraoperative tissue detection using mass spectrometry at the Health and Human Rights Conference (HHRC)! Great conference hosted by my peers at Queen's U Department of Medicine

We are finished with Heat 1 of the 2025 3MT! Thank you to all the students who participated, and congratulations to our winners: Scott Davidson (third), Ethan Januszkiewcz (second), and Dilakshan Srikanthan (first)! See you for Heat 2 tomorrow!

Good luck on your 3MT presentations today Dilakshan Srikanthan and Matti McFarlane! Matti McFarlane Dilakshan Srikanthan

Thank you to the participants of the 2025 3MT & GRADflix! Tonight’s winners are: 2nd place for Danielle Harper from Pathology & Molecular Medicine, and 1st place for Dilakshan Srikanthan from Translational Medicine! Our GRADflix winner is Yu Yan Li from Civil Engineering!

Congratulations Dilakshan Srikanthan as the 1st place winner of the 3MT!!!

Last week, Queen's MD/PhD had the chance to present our work at CITAC 2025! Always nice to see our MD/PhD colleagues from across Canada and some of the amazing work that’s being done! Grateful to the judges for awarding me for my research/presentation!

Congratulations to Dilakshan Srikanthan for his participation in the NAGS 3MT last Friday, April 25 and for winning the People's Choice award! He did an excellent job representing Queen’s and showcasing his research.

Had an absolute blast running the Toronto Half Marathon with my friends last week! Beautiful route and a fun day overall! Looking forward to some more challenging runs!

Congratulations to Dilakshan Srikanthan (PhD, Translational Medicine) for winning the Ontario 3-Minute Thesis competition! With his win, Queen’s has now placed first in back-to-back O3MT competitions!