AllerGen trainee receives prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship

An early career researcher and former AllerGen Network trainee has been named a 2016 Banting Postdoctoral Fellow.

The fellowship, valued at $70,000 per year for two years, is Canada’s most prestigious award for postdoctoral research.

Dr. Matthew Gold, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, has been numbered among an elite group of researchers who have demonstrated research excellence and leadership in their fields of study.

The Fellowship will facilitate his work on the molecular regulation of dendritic cell homeostasis.

Dr. Gold completed his PhD in Experimental Medicine, under the supervision of AllerGen investigator Dr. Kelly McNagny, at The University of British Columba in 2016.

With support from AllerGen’s International Trainee Research Visit Program, he recently spent nine weeks in the laboratory of Dr. Bart Lambrecht at the Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB) Inflammation Research Centre of the University of Ghent, in Ghent, Belgium.

The federally funded Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program awards 70 fellowships annually to “the very best postdoctoral applicants, both nationally and internationally.”

Read the profile of Dr. Gold in the Spring 2016 issue of AllerGen’s Success Stories.