Sami Obaid, Synapse Youth Profile

Future

Sami Obaid
College Student
Laval, Quebec

• 2006 Has asteroid named after him, Minor Planet (21712) Obaid
• 2005 Team Canada member at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
• 2004-2005 Leading scorer in Montreal-area college soccer league
• 2000 Obtains a black belt in Taekwondo

Present

Dr. Frédéric Charron
Lab Director
Molecular Biology of Neural Development
Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal

• 2005 Wins the Peter Lougheed/CIHR New Investigator Award
• 2002 Wins major scholarship, opening the door to postdoctoral work at Stanford University in California
• 1995-2001 Studies medicine at McGill University
• 1982 With encouragement from his godfather, dismantles family stereo, learning logic

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