This year there were two awardees deemed worthy of the Women’s Health Research Silver Medal Award at the Canadian National Medical Student Research Symposium, a national poster competition held annually by the Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba. On June 13, 2019, the first awardee was Jessica Miller, a PhD student from Queen’s University. The title of her research was “Understanding the Mechanistic Role of Interleukin-33 in Endometriosis Associated Inflammation and Pathology”. The second was Eric Filice, a PhD student from the University of Waterloo. The title of his research was “The Influence of Grindr, a Geosocial Networking Application, on Image in Gay, Bisexual and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men: An Exploratory Study”.