Recipients
Jim Thornhill
Bill Thomlinson, former executive-director of the Canadian Light Source at the University of Saskatchewan and now special advisor to the U of S vice-president of research, presents the keynote address at the 16th annual U of S Life and Health Sciences Research Day on March 13, 2009.
Thomlinson, a world-renowned authority on synchrotron medical imaging, discusses how the use of synchrotron radiation, originally developed as a tool in basic and applied science, is becoming widely applied to medical sciences. Synchrotron X-rays light is being harnessed to better detect and treat diseases such as breast cancer, lung disease and osteoporosis.
The research day features poster displays of more than 160 research projects by graduate students, medical residents, and post-doctoral fellows from fields as diverse as food science, kinesiology, medicine, dentistry, nursing, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, nutrition, and toxicology.
The presentations are an opportunity for graduate students and other research trainees to share their findings with the U of S research community and to give the public a sense of new research going on in life and health sciences.
