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 Information: Any 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).

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!
- 2024: Fares Saïdi, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
- 2023: Elisse Magnuson, McGill University
- 2022: Landon Getz, Dalhousie University
- 2021: Kali Iyer, University of Toronto
- 2020: Dr. Brendan Daisley, University of Guelph
- 2019: Yogesh Hooda, University of Toronto
- 2018: Stephanie Jones, McMaster University
- 2017: Dr. George diCenzo, McMaster University
- 2016: Ryan Gaudet, University of Toronto
- 2015: no award
- 2014: Ragunath Singaravelu, University of Ottawa
- 2013: Salim Islam, University of Guelph
- 2012: Elena B. M. Breidenstein, University of British Columbia
Prior to 2012, this award was named the Cangene Gold Award. Award winners are listed below.
- 2011: Karlene Lynch
- 2010: Chris Sibley
- 2009: Phillipe Constant
- 2008: Joe Harrison
- 2007: Catherine Paradis-Bleau
- 2006: Dawn Bowdish
- 2005: Matthew Gilmour
- 2004: Trevor Lawley
- 2003: Sean Connell
- 2002: Danika Goosney
- 2001: Jeremy Yethon
- 2000: Jolyne Drummelsmith
- 1999: Lisa Collins
- 1998: Janine Bossé
- 1997: Dana Philpott