Cancer battle hits home
June 5, 2007 by admin
The loss of a childhood friend to leukemia helped set Ted Paranjothy on his course for a career in medicine. While in high school, he spent more than 2,000 hours doing volunteer research in a University of Manitoba laboratory. A project he designed led to the discovery of an anticancer agent, for which the university has filed a provisional patent application. He is also the first student to
win first place at the provincial, national and international levels of the Sanofi-Aventis Biotechnology Challenge. Last month, he became the first Canadian to win the $7,500 top prize at the Sanofi-Aventis International BioGENEius Challenge in Boston. In September, he begins his studies at the University of Manitoba, buoyed by the 2007 TD Canada Trust Scholarship for Outstanding Community Leadership, worth $60,000 over four years.
Globe and Mail June 5, 2007