Science Co-op Top Employers

Congratulations to all of our outstanding companies and supervisors! Thank you for your continued support of the program.

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2022 Award Recipients

2022 Award Recipients - Employer Awards

Absolute Software Corporation
Earth's Own Food Company
General Fusion Inc.
The Panenka Lab, TLS Inc, and The UBC COBRAH Program
UBC Community Health and Wellbeing Cloud Innovation Centre

2022 Award Recipients - Supervisor Awards

Mohamed Abdel-Fattah, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Hitesh Arora, STEMCELL Technologies Inc.
Carla Babcock, TRIUMF
Katherine Baillie, BC Cancer Research Centre
Aruna Balgi, Precision NanoSystems Inc.
Michael Bartlett, Environment and Climate Change Canada
Alistair Beck, BGC Engineering
Hayedeh Behzad, BC Cancer Research Centre
Mike Berger, ICORD
Logan Bittner, PDFTron
Norm Bonin, Cenovus Energy
Thomas Brenner, UBC Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Jonathan Bush, BC Children's Hospital
Amber Campbell, Oak Tree Clinic
Haoning Howard Cen, UBC James Johnson Lab
Renee Chan, True NOSH
Amanda Chisholm, VCHRI
Jacqueline Cornejo, Nature's Path Foods
Mathieu Crupi, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Derek Disanjh, FORM
Ingrid Elisia, BC Cancer Research Centre
Amal EL-Naggar, BC Cancer Research Centre
Felipe Eltit Guersetti, Vancouver Prostate Centre
Thalia Field, Vancouver Stroke Program
Vanessa Dizonno, Vancouver Stroke Program
Karen Fong, Agriculture and Agri-food Canada
Shyam Garg, Jazz Pharmaceuticals
Sarah Grasedieck, Michael Smith Laboratories
Martial Guillaud, BC Cancer Research Centre
Morad Hameed, UBC General Surgery
Cooper Harasyn, Arista Networks
Victor Ho, STEMCELL Technologies Inc.
Sarah Holowenko, Acuity Insights
Chris Howard, Calabrio
Asish Jacob, Insurance Corporation of British Columbia
Kevan Jacobson, BC Children's Hospital
Heather Jang, Later
Farhia Kabeer, BC Cancer Research Centre
Samantha Kaweski, BC Centre for Disease Control
Janel Kopp, UBC Cellular and Physiological Sciences
YK Kuang, Rivian
Henry Kung, Acuity Insights
Daniel Kurek, Nanovation Therapeutics
Edmond Kwan, Vancouver Prostate Centre
Jared LaRue, Bit Quill Technologies Inc. / Improving
Jeffrey LeDue, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health
David Lee, CoPilot AI
Qiaochu Liang, BC Children's Hospital Research Institute
Caroline MacCallum, MacCallum Medical Consulting Corp
Irina Maksakova, BC Cancer Research Centre
Ben Matthews, UBC Department of Zoology
Adrian McNeill, Quartz Imaging Corp.
Suzana Montoya, BC Centre for Disease Control
Earl Moya, CPABC
Philip (Phil) Ngo, Factors Group of Nutritional Companies Inc. / Head Office
J. Ivor Norlin, Interior Health
Ryan Ogg, D2L (Desire2Learn)
Gavin Olle, SAP
Kristoffer Palma, STEMCELL Technologies Inc.
Ryan Proulx, Safe Software
Ben Rabinovitch, Tegus (formerly Canalyst)
Olga Radivojevic, BC Children's Hospital
Clint Remedios, Alida
Graham Robinson, Yakoa
Kevin Rush, Enbridge
Mina Salehi, UBC Division of General Surgery
Shubhayan Sanatani, BC Children's Hospital
Hannah Sanford-Crane, Chinook Therapeutics Inc.
Shota Senga, Thrive Health
Angel Shishkov, Ernst & Young (EY)
Matt Staples, Avigilon
Justin Student, Digital Solutions -- Educational Technology
Stefanie Suderman, UBC Science Student Engagment
Terri Sutherland, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Suraj Swaroop, Alida
Shunsuke Takenaka, Amgen
Simon Tang, Sun Machine Games
Andrew Thamboo, St. Paul's Sinus Centre
Joseph Tran, Animal Logic
Filip Van Petegem, UBC Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Amy Wang, NanoVation Therapeutics
Matthew Waugh, Surrey S.D. #36
Rui Wen, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Beth Whalen, Centre for Heart Lung Innovation
Matthew Wiens, Centre for International Child Health
Raymond Wong, Teck Coal Ltd.
Joyce Wu, Chinook Therapeutics Inc.
Scott Yu, Best Buy Canada Ltd.
Mehreen Zeb, PanGenomic Health
Kaidong Zhang, PanGenomic Health
Ariel Zhang, Precision NanoSystems Inc.
Zhibo Zhang, IBM

2021 Award Recipients

2021 Award Recipients - Employer Awards

Alida
Ballard Power Systems
BC Children’s Hospital - Orthopaedic Clinic - Mulpuri Team
BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Gastroenterology Clinic - Kevan Jacobson Research Group
D2L
DaoAI Robotics Inc.
Later
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute - Bell Lab
Precision Nanosystems

2021 Award Recipients - Supervisor Awards

Adam Berg, XYZ Digital
Adam Whitaker-Wilson, Covalent
Alberto Delaidelli, BC Cancer Research Centre
Alexander Weber, BC Children's Hospital Research Institute
Annette Patterson, BC Children's Hospital Research Institute
Anthony Tang, Amgen British Columbia
Ariana McKay, B.C. Ministry of FLNRORD
Brian Grunau, Providence Health Care
Cecilia Langill, UBC Science Student Engagement
Chelsea Himsworth, Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative
Damian Duffy, BC Children's Hospital
Daniela Palombo, Memory and Imagination Lab
David Barbic, Providence Health Care
David Gibson, Vancouver Fraser Port Authority
Dennis Acosta, Public Safety Canada
Emilie Geneau, Anandia Labs
Emily Chow, B.C. Ministry of FLNRORD
Eric Kim, Psychosocial Flourishing and Health Lab
Erin Green, UBC Science Advising & Student Engagement
Farhang Nesvaderani, Nano One Materials Corp.
Fergus McDonald, Procurify
Flora Huang, VGH - The Prostate Centre
Frances Lock, Terry Fox Laboratory
Gabriela Segat, BC Cancer Research Centre
Guangze Zhao, UBC Heart & Lung Innovations
Hannah Shu, Nature's Path
Henry Hsiao, Rivian
Jack Su, Trulioo Information Services Inc.
James Guo, RBC(Royal bank of Canada)
James Zhou, Alida
Jonathan Kang, Form Swim
Jonathan Loree, BC Cancer
Jordan Ell, Riipen Networks Inc.
Jorden Hetherington, Kardium Inc.
Katharine Ng, Tropini Lab
Kaylee Byers, Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative
Kelly Shone, Nature's Path
Kevin Madarieta, Daiya Foods
Leanna Yee, adMare BioInnovations
Lucy Harrison, Impact Assessment Agency of Canada
Marc Davis, TELUS
Maria Tokuyama, UBC Microbiology and Immunology
Marilyn Edgar, TELUS Digital
Marvin Gunawan, Chinook Therapeutics
Masoud Daneshi, UBC Complex Fluids Lab
Mathieu Crupi, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Melissa Armstrong, UBC Department of Zoology
Melodie Lu, iProgen Biotech
Mike Rooney, Berlinguette Group
Mollie Carruthers, Artus Health Centre
Nada Lallous, VGH - The Prostate Centre
Naomi Zimmerman, Integrated Research in Energy, Air, Climate, and Health Lab
Nik LeBlanc, Taplytics
Niranjan Krishnan, Amazon.com
Paige Wildeman, Anandia Laboratories
Pei-Hsuan (Shelly) Wu, UBC Department of Zoology
Peter Rahfeld, UBC Department of Chemistry
Ramon Klein Geltink, BC Children's Hospital Research Institute
Rashedul Islam, Epigenomics/Hirst Lab
Rosie Howard, UBC Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Sahar Rezaei, Vega
Sarah Grasedieck, Hirst Laboratory
Saurabh Deshmukh, Amazon.com
Shane Caldwell, Amgen
Shubhayan Sanatani, BC Children's Hospital
Sohyeong Kang, Zymeworks
Stefan Avall, Kardium
Steven Slade, Shopify
Suman Majumder, Text IQ
Sunny Jeng, Genevant Sciences
Thomas Laurie, Copperleaf
Tyler Vance, University of Toronto
Warren Greeves, BC Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy
Yasir Mohamud, Centre for Heart Lung Innovation
Yoanna Poutou Paumier, Bell Lab
Yvonne Ma, UBC Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Zahid Delwar, Virogin Biotech

2020 Award Recipients

2020 Award Recipients - Employer Awards

ATB Financial – Grow
Chinook Therapeutics
East Side Games
Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre
NRC Nanotechnology Research Centre
Royal Bank of Canada
UBC Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Zymeworks

2020 Award Recipients - Supervisor Awards

Adam Monahan, University of Victoria
Alannah Hallas, Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute
Alexander Wyatt, Vancouver Prostate Centre
Amanda Tee, MetaOptima
Andrew Sharon, Osborne Lab
Andy Leung, Aquanow
Andy Yang, SAP
Angelica Leon, BC Children's Hospital
Angelyne Rivera, BC Children's Hospital
Anjum Mutakabbir, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Anne-Laure Dufour, Vega
Avery King, STEMCELL Technologies Inc.
Bernie Shizgal, UBC Department of Chemistry
Blake Rablah, General Fusion
Candice Wiedman, BC Children's Hospital Research Institute
Cara Mirabelli, BC Children's Hospital
Carsten Abraham, University of Victoria
Casimiro Gerarduzzi, Centre de Recherche de l'Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont
Christina Michalski, BC Children's Hospital Research Institute
Christine Klaray, UBC Land and Food Systems Student Services
Courtney Pollock, G.F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre
Dawn Cochrane, OVCARE (Huntsman Lab)
Dayue Shang, Environment and Climate Change Canada
Dennis Jess, BC Ministry of Agriculture
Dylan Kirkby, Alloy
Edmund Seow, UBC Land and Food Systems - the Learning Centre
Edward Conway, The Centre For Blood Research
Edward Ning, Telus
Elton Pao, Maths - No Problem!
Emilie Geneau, Anandia Labs
Emily Schaeffer, BC Children's Hospital
Erin Lim, Aquatic Informatics Inc.
Eugenia Socías, British Columbia Centre on Substance Use
Falene Chai, Innovative Targeting Solutions
Florian Kuchenbauer, BC Cancer Research Centre
Fontayne Wong, BC Children's Hospital
Fraser Berkhout, Lifco Hydraulics
Gennady Bortnikov, Rentmoola
Graydon Oshiro, Bench Accounting
Hanna McGregor, Rostrum Medical Innovations Inc.
Horacio Bach, UBC Faculty of Medicine
Jacqueline Cornejo-Davila, Vega
James Johnson, UBC Johnson Lab
James Lloyd, SAP
Jelena Premovic, Absolute Software
John Chen, Copperleaf Technologies Inc
Jon Jeffery, Clir Renewables
Jon Loree, BC Cancer Agency
Jonathan Tsang, UBC Enrolment Services
Joshua Etsenake, Clio
Joyce Wu, Chinook Therapeutics
Jude Fernandes, Avigilon Corporation
Judy Kwan, Environment and Climate Change Canada
Julia Hill, adMare BioInnovations
Karine Houde, Health Canada
Kate Turner, BC Ministry of Agriculture
Keith Murray, Telus
Kelly Mcnichols-O'Rourke, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Kishore Mulpuri , BC Children's Hospital
Laurence Madera, Zymeworks
Lee Sutton, Keela
Leona Shum, UBC Department of Emergency Medicine
Lisa Osborne, Osborne Lab
Mark Ellens, Dometic
Martin Stahl, STEMCELL Technologies Inc.
Matthew Tandy, Xenon Pharmaceuticals
Michael Stark, Vidyard
Min Jun, The George Institute of Global Health
Nate Elkan, Samsung
Navjit Sodhi, Lynn Valley Optometry
Nobuhiko Tokuriki, Michael Smith Laboratories
Pietro Giampa, TRIUMF
Pritesh Tailor, SAP
Rainbow Bai, SignalChem
Renee Mosi, Alectos Therapeutics
Sam Yee, Incognito Software Systems Inc.
Sascha Epp, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter
Sébastien Lalancette, Google
Shahin Rabbani, Ubisoft
Shireen Jozi, iProgen Biotech Inc.
Stefanie Mak, UBC Centre for Blood Research
Syam Somasekharan, Vancouver Prostate Centre
Tara Caffrey, Wellington Lab
Tasha Acaster, Daiya Foods
Thilini Leitan, UBC Land and Food Systems Student Services
Thomas Rowe, Nano One Materials Corporation
Travis Worthing, Atomic47 Labs
Zachari Turgeon, Renaissance Bioscience

Past Award Recipients

2019 Award Recipients - Employer Awards

AppNeta
Bayer AG
Bayer U.S.
BC Cancer Research Centre
BC Children's Hospital Research Institute
BGC Engineering Inc.
Demonware Inc.
Electronic Arts Inc.
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
NetApp
Ping Identity
Terramera

2019 Award Recipients - Supervisor Awards

Adam Anonuevo, Stemcell Technologies
Adi Sharma, Royal Bank of Canada
Alejandro Erickson, Copperleaf Technologies Inc.
Angelique Mallari, Applied Biological Materials Inc.
Ankur Sharma, Genome Institute of Singapore
Avtar Sidhu, Lonza
Baljit Singh, University of Calgary - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Brooke Haile-Mariam, Google
Chris Laver, Visucyte Therapeutics Inc.
Christoph Sielmann, Schneider Electric
Damian Duffy, Office of Pediatric Surgical Evaluation and Innovation
Dawn Cochrane, BC Cancer Research Centre
Elizabeth Pang, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)
Florian Kuchenbauer, Terry Fox Labs
Fuad Arafa, Machobear
Ginn Kuchinka, TELUS
Harvey Richer, UBC Faculty of Physics and Astronomy
Jeffery Wong, British Columbia Liquor Distribution Branch
Justin Franchetto, Magnet Forensics
Kenny Chan, British Columbia Liquor Distribution Branch
Kerry Pippy, Environment and Climate Change Canada
Kimberly Snyder, STEMCELL Technologies Inc.
Laure Millet, Critical Systems Labs
Laurent Volpon, Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC)
LeAnn Howe, UBC Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Leanna Yee, adMare Bioinnovations/CDRD
Leonardo Turchi, European Space Agency
Linda Horianopoulos, UBC Michael Smith Laboratories
Maria Aristizabal, BCCHRI - Centre for Molecular Medicine and Theraputics
Mariana Walther, The Nature Conservancy
Mathieu Crupi, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Matthew Berlinic, Apex Automation
Matthew Zeglinski, UBC iCORD
Michael Guite, BC Hydro
Nada Lallous, Vancouver Prostate Cancer Centre
Navjit Sodhi, Lynn Valley Optometry
Pawandeep Kaur, Absolute Software
Periyasamy Giridharan, Genome Institute of Singapore
Robert Clifford, Calico Logic
Robert Gene, Zymeworks
Robert Hetzler, SAP Canada Inc
Seonaid Nolan, British Columbia Centre on Substance Use
Shubhayan Sanatani, BC Children's Hospital
Shunsuke Takenaka, Amgen British Columbia Inc
Simon Diemert, Critical Systems Labs
Sonia Franciosi, BC Children's Hospital
Stephane Morichere-Matte, Microsoft
Takashi Matsumoto, Black Lab - Vancouver Prostate Centre
Tanja Stockmann, Interior Health Authority
Tatiana Maroilley, University of Calgary
Tim McKenzie, Salesforce
Tom Modrovcic, TELUS
Yemin Wang, OvCaRe
Yi-Chun Chen, BC Children's Hospital Research Institute
Ying Zhang, TELUS

2018 Award Recipients - Employer Awards

Centre for Drug Research and Development
Copperleaf Technologies Inc.
Daiya Foods
Environment and Climate Change Canada
Factors Group of Nutritional Companies Inc.
Genome Institute of Singapore
INTEL of Canada Ltd.
Laser Zentrum Hannover
Realtor.com
Statistics Canada, Methodology Branch
Terry Fox Laboratories
University of Wurzburg
Visier

2018 Award Recipients - Supervisor Awards

Abdelali Bennis, Robert Bosch GmbH
Akira Konaka, TRIUMF
Amal El-Naggar, BC Cancer Research Centre
Angela Aquino, UBC Psychiatry
Benjamin Loosley, UBC Risk Management Services
Catherine Sutter, Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation
Chris Murawsky, Amgen British Columbia Inc.
Cottalango Leon, Sony Pictures Imageworks
Craig Pigott, Innovative Targeting Solutions Inc.
David Chan, Hootsuite'
David Shin, The Centre for Drug Research and Development
Elise Olson, UBC Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Eric Cruz, Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD)
Eugenia Socias, BC Centre on Substance Use
Fan Zhang, Vancouver Prostate Centre
Gary Hinshaw, UBC Physics & Astronomy
Glen Mulcahy, For the Love of the Game, Inc. / PARADIGM Sports
Hezhao Ji, Public Health Agency of Canada
Ian McLachlan, BC Ministry of Agriculture
Ivan Beschastnikh, UBC Computer Science
Jerome Robert, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health
Maggie Meng, Visier Inc.
Martin Pelletier, Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval
Matthew Wong, STEMCELL Technologies Inc.
Matthieu Vivier, The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Michael Wach, Willis Towers Watson
Navjit Sodhi, Lynn Valley Optometry
Nina Chen, LinkedIn
Noureddine Elouazizi, Noureddine Elouazizi, UBC SKYLIGHT: Science Centre for Learning and Teaching, and Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT)
Rachel Edgar, UBC Centre for Molecular Medicine & Therapeutics (CMMT)
Rob Lee, SAP
Rohit Jain, Sony Pictures Imageworks
Ryan Ogg, D2L
Sanja Frketich, SAP
Sascha Epp, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter
Sonya Cressman, BC Cancer Research Centre
Sophie Spiridonoff, UBC Faculty of Applied Science
Stuart Ashman, PAI Health
Vanyl Chou, SAP
Vincent Wong, UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering
Wai Hang Cheng, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health
Wayne Mah, Kardium Inc.
Zack Snyder, Twitter

2017 Award Recipients - Employer Awards

Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada
Amazon
Applied Biological Materials Inc.
BC Children's Hospital
Hootsuite
Max Planck Institutes
Safe Software
SAP
Stemcell Technologies
Tesla Inc.
The Office of Pediatric Surgical Evaluation and Innovation
TRIUMF
Two Tall Totems
UBC Physics & Astronomy

2017 Award Recipients - Supervisor Awards