Funding Opportunities

There are funding opportunities for students at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry to conduct research. Funding opportunities can be found at the following link.

Note: SWORP funding is provided by Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry and the University of Windsor. All Supervisors should inform the necessary individuals at both institutions that they have students submitting applications including:

Tips for Submitting Applications:

Check what ethics procedures/forms need to be submitted with your application
- University of Windsor forms
- Windsor Regional Hospital
Ensure you use the correct ethics forms, for secondary data analysis, less paper work is needed
After connecting with a potential Supervisor, set up a face-to-face meeting to discuss the details that need to be included in the application

Previously Funded Projects

Year	Student	Supervisor	Research Focus
2018	Amanda Mary Stojcevski	Dr. Woldie	Psychosocial and economic burden of cancer diagnosis in multiple members of the same family
2018	Elise Quint	Dr. Hamm	Retrospective chart review examining variables related to outcome for patients treated for acute leukemia at the Windsor Regional Cancer Centre
2018	Shayne Snider	Dr. Ghafoor	Comparing survival outcome of de-novo metastatic prostate cancer and primary progressive prostate cancer
2016	Paul Dolinar	Dr. Hirmiz	A retrospective chart review of patients diagnosed with rectal cancer treated at the Windsor Regional Cancer Centre between 2002 and 2010, examining treatments and outcomes
2016	Robert Jie Guo	Dr. Kanjeekal	A retrospective review of the CNS prophylaxis and outcomes in patients with DLBCL at high risk for CNS relapse.
2016	Jennifer Nguyen	Dr. Hamm	Development of a taxotere/carboplatin protocol for the treatment of triple negative breast cancer
2016	Andrew Su	Dr. Kulkarni	Investigating characteristics, treatment patterns and outcomes of breast cancer patients 40 years or under at the time of diagnosis

2015	Paul Dolinar	Dr. Hirmiz	Retrospective Chart Review of patients diagnosed with Rectal cancer and were treated at the Windsor Regional Cancer canter between 2002 and 2010; examining treatments and outcomes
2015	Chris Hillman	Dr. Hamm	Patients Emergency Room Attendance. Motivations for Assessment.
2015	Ramen Nissan	Dr. Hamm	Development of MDS teaching module
2015	Paul Webb	Dr. Jarrar	ALL
2014	Sabrina Botsford	Dr. Porter	Relevance of the Tuberin-Cyclin B1 interaction in regulation cell size
2014	Christopher Langley	Dr. Hamm	ER visits Hematology
2014	Abdullah Nassar	Dr. Kulkarni	ER visits Breast Cancer
2013	Brad Waterman	Dr. Kulkarni	Head and Neck
2013	Michael Blaszak	Dr. Ghafoor	Pancreatic ca – collaboration with Ottawa
2013	Dina Sayegh	Dr. Hamm	CML
2013	Sapna Saggar	Dr. Hamm	Lymphoma
2012	Annurag Balla	Dr.’s Hirmiz and Tarek	Colorectal cancer databases
2012	Krystal Chan	Dr. Hamm	Follicular lymphoma
2012	Elizabeth Allen	Dr. Yousuf	A demographic study on prostate cancer presenting to the Windsor Regional Cancer Program from 1990-2012
2012	Pamathy Vivek	Dr. Hamm	Breast cancer
2012	Anurag Bhalla	Dr. Kulkarni	Lung cancer chart review
2012	Samantha Mathews	Dr. Hamm	Prostate cancer database
2012	Abhishek Jarwala	Dr. Kanjeekal	MDS chart review
2011	Guillaume & Vanssa Poliquin	Dr. Hamm	Development of Breast Cancer Data base 2000 – 2010
2009	Wesley Lai	Dr. Hamm	Neupogen vs Neulasta dataset
2009	Doreen Ezeife	Dr. Hamm	Neupogen vs Neulasta