Faculty of Science
Science Co-op

Student of the Year Award: Charu Sankaran (Integrated Sciences)

March 30, 2020

Charu Sankaran

Charu Sankaran is an Integrated Sciences student, who has completed two eight-month work terms with the Science Co-op program. She completed her first and second co-op work-terms as a Research Assistant under the supervision of Dr. Kevin Hay at Terry Fox Laboratories (BC Cancer Agency) studying Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cells. After a successful completion of her first two work terms, Charu continued to further her learnings in research when she was hired as a Lab Research Assistant on an 8-month work term at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Calgary under the supervision of Dr. Hermann Schaetzl to study prion diseases.

Learn more about Charu's co-op experience in Co-op Chronicles!

  • Student of the Year
  • Integrated Sciences

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