An associate professor of biology at Providence University College, Dr. Rebecca Dielschneider, was awarded the Simon and Sarah Israels Thesis Prize earlier this month for her doctoral thesis, entitled “Targeting Susceptible Signaling Pathways in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia.” The annual prize, in the amount of $2,000, is presented to a graduate student at the Manitoba Institute of Cell Biology.
“I discovered weaknesses of human leukemia cells and tested innovative therapies that take advantage of those weaknesses,” Dielschneider says, describing the contents of her thesis. Much of her work has already been published in prestigious journals such as Leukemia.
Dielschneider also won BIOTECanada’s Gold Leaf Award for Biotechnology Research in 2015, in addition to claiming an Academic Excellence Award in Immunology from the University of Manitoba. In March 2016, she was named to the CBC’s Manitoba Future 40-Under-40 list. She has been teaching at Providence since September.
