Armand Frappier Outstanding Student Award

Date limite : 17 January, 2025

About the Award

This award recognizes outstanding achievements by a graduate student from a Canadian university/ institute/ agency. Nominations for this award are reviewed and ranked by a 3- member International Scientific Committee. The award consists of a cheque of $500, framed certificate, travel, accommodation, and complementary registration to the annual conference. The Armand Frappier Award is made possible by the generous financial support of CSM. We accept nominations for this award year-round.

Value of the Award: $500 + Travel Expenses & Complimentary Registration to the CSM Annual Conference & Framed Certificate

Number of Awards: 1

Frequency of the Award: Annual

Eligibility: Any student currently attending a recognized Canadian graduate program, who has done outstanding scientific work in microbiology, shall be eligible for the Award. Both the nominator and the student must be members of the CSM and have paid the current year membership fees.

Award Lecture: The award winner will present a 40 minute talk based on the work for which the award was given during the Annual Conference of the CSM/SCM. The awardee will be invited to provide a review article based on the research presented for publication in the Canadian Journal of Microbiology (CJM), which is published by the Canadian Science Publishing. The awardee will receive a framed certificate and a cheque in the amount of $500. In addition, the awardee will be reimbursed for registration for the Conference. Commendation Certificates will be awarded to three runner-up entrants and Certificates of Recognition will be provided to all university nominees. 

Application Contact: CSM Secretariat at info@csm-scm.org

Nomination InformationAny CSM Regular Member in good standings can nominate one student. The nominator has to be a faculty member at the same institution as the student. There are no limits as to the number of nominees from any one institution. All materials should be submitted through the online form below and must be submitted by the nominator (not the nominee).

CSM Award – Armand-Frappier

Part A: Nominee Details (Prepared by Nominee)

Part B: Nominee Research Details (Provided by Nominee)

Part C: Nomination Letter (Provided by Nominator)

Armand Frappier
Armand Frappier

About Armand Frappier

Armand Frappier was a founding member of the Canadian Society of Microbiologists, and its third president (1954-55). It is with great pride to report that this past year he has been inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. A full accounting of his accomplishments, and links to a vignette are available at Canadian Medical Hall of Fame website.

In order to honor Armand Frappier the Society has renamed one of its major awards. The CSM Gold award is now Armand-Frappier Outstanding Student Award/La bourse Armand-Frappier pour l’étudiant exceptionnel. The award with its new name was presented for the first time at the CSM 2012 Annual Conference in Vancouver.

Past Award Winners

Congratulations to all of our past award winners!

Prior to 2012, this award was named the Cangene Gold Award. Award winners are listed below.