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Christopher Hart, BSc, PhD

PhD Graduate
2014-2020

About Christopher Hart

Christopher Hart graduated from Miles Macdonell Collegiate through the International Baccalaureate program in April 2009, and completed a BSc. Honours Degree in Genetics (First Class) at the University of Manitoba in February 2014. Christopher started as a Masters student in Karimi’s lab in the Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology in 2014, investigating the modulatory role of astrocytes in neural stem cell (NSC) differentiation following spinal cord injury (SCI). In 2015, Chris transitioned to a PhD program. Chris is the recipient on NSERC and Research Manitoba Studentships in 2015 and 2017. Chris has also received the Nick Shepel  poster award at the 2017 Manitoba Neuroscience Network Meeting as well as gold poster prizes in the 2018 Manitoba Health Research Forum and the Canadian Student Health Research Forum, as well as the Larry Jordan Award of Excellence in Neurophysiology in 2019. Chris contributed to several publications in the lab. He defended his PhD thesis in May 2020

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