Congratulations Jeffrey and Nathan for being the recipients of the 2026 Félix-Antoine Aublet Scholarship!

The CERMO-FC's Félix-Antoine Aublet Research Scholarship aims to support research related to orphan diseases, and more specifically mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS) which are a group of rare lysosomal storage disorders.

For this edition, the scholarship was awarded to two students from two different labs: our own M.Sc. student Jeffrey Killeen and Ph.D. student Nathan Ghafari from Dr. Lekha Sleno's laboratory. Together, they will continue working on C. elegans models of MPS diseases, with the goal of developping a better understanding of the neurological consequences of GAG accumulation and identifying new research avenues through unbiaised proteomics and metabolomics.

A big congratulations to both Jeffrey and Nathan!!