A University of Manitoba Rady Faculty of Health Sciences professor/St Boniface Hospital Albrechtsen Research Centre researcher was awarded with the 2020 Canadian Cardiovascular Society Research Achievement Award.

Lorrie Kirshenbaum [BSc/86, MSc/88, PhD/92], Canada Research Chair in molecular cardiology and a professor of physiology/pathophysiology, and pharmacology/therapeutics in Max Rady College of Medicine, was honoured with the award created to acknowledge a researcher’s excellence as an established investigator working on an aspect of cardiovascular research in Canada.