Khalil Rawji (neuroscientist, Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge, UK) was recently awarded the PhD Researcher of the 
Year Award for the second time at the University of Calgary. Khalil completed his PhD in Neuroscience with them last year and was given this award in 2018. He is the only student to have won this award twice. The first time he received this award was in 2016. This award is given to the top PhD student in the Hotchkiss Brain Institute and Department of Neuroscience at the University of Calgary and is based on the quality and quantity of international peer-reviewed scientific publications.
Year Award for the second time at the University of Calgary. Khalil completed his PhD in Neuroscience with them last year and was given this award in 2018. He is the only student to have won this award twice. The first time he received this award was in 2016. This award is given to the top PhD student in the Hotchkiss Brain Institute and Department of Neuroscience at the University of Calgary and is based on the quality and quantity of international peer-reviewed scientific publications.
In another news:
Khalil Rawji has received a 3-year competitive postdoctoral fellowship in the form of $41,000 a year from the Multiple Sclerosis Society to continue his research at the University of Cambridge in the UK. Here he will be researching strategies to promote repair of the damaged brain and spinal cord in multiple sclerosis.
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