Dr. Janet Hill: SHRF Top Researcher Award
Dr. Janet Hill
Dr. Janet Hill of the Western College of Veterinary Medicine was among the Top Researcher Award recipients at the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation’s annual Santé! Awards Dinner on December 6.
Hill, an assistant professor in the College’s Department of Veterinary Microbiology, was the recipient of SHRF’s Top New Investigator Establishment Grant (Biomedical) for her research efforts.
Hill is the third WCVM scientist to receive this province-wide annual award in the past three years. Drs. Ali Honoramooz and Lynn Weber of the College’s Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences were the award’s recipients in 2005 and 2006.
Hill will use her two-year, $80,000 SHRF grant to develop new diagnostic tools for detecting different species of Campylobacter and their sources. As a common contaminant of food and water, Campylobacter infection is a leading cause of gastrointestinal disease in people. Hill is investigating the role of animals — particularly pets — in spreading Campylobacter infection. For more information about Hill and her research activities, please visit her web site.
Other 2007 SHRF award recipients included Saija Kontulainen and Chantal Bussier of the University of Saskatchewan’s College of Kinesiolology, and Dr. Yang Li of Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization.
SHRF, the provincial agency that funds and facilitates health research in Saskatchewan, sponsors the Santé! Awards that recognize researchers at the beginning of their careers. For more information, please click here.
