Alumni


Graduate Students

  • Steven Botts – PhD from 2020-2026; Current Position (as of 2026): Medical Student Year 3, University of Toronto, ON
  • Kristen Schulz – MSc from 2022-2024; Current Position (as of 2025): Medical Student, University of British Columbia, BC
  • Sneha Raju – PhD from 2019-2024; Current Position (as of 2025): Vascular Surgery Resident, University of Toronto, ON
  • Dakota Gustafson – PhD from 2016-2022; Current Position (as of 2025): Graduate Student, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON
  • Nickie Mak – MSc from 2021-2022; Current Position (as of 2025): Medical Student, Taiwan
  • Shawn Veitch – PhD from 2015-2021; Current Position (as of 2024): Medical Communications Writer, Sixsense Strategy Group, Toronto, ON
  • Nadiya Khyzha – PhD from 2013-2020; Current Position (as of 2024): Postdoctoral Fellow, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
  • Henry Cheng – PhD from 2010-2017; Current Position (as of 2024): Scientist, Walden Biosciences, Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Azad Alizada – Co-supervised MSc from 2015-2017; Current Position (as of 2024): Postdoctoral Fellow, Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
  • Heng Wang – MSc from 2010-2012; Current Position (as of 2024): Emergency Medicine Physician, CJW Medical Center, Richmond, VA, USA


Postdoctoral Fellows

 
  • Sarvatit Patel – Postdoc from 2022-2024; Current Position (as of 2025): Post Doc Fellow, Structural Genomics Consortium, Toronto, ON
  • Rathnakumar Kumaragurubaran – Postdoc from 2017-2022; Current Position (as of 2025): Assistant Professor and Genomics Core Manager, University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
  • Peter DiStefano – Postdoc from 2016-2019; Current Position (as of 2024): Scientist II, Discovery Research, Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Lexington, MA, USA
  • Naomi Da Silva – Co-supervised Postdoc from 2014-2016; Current Position (as of 2024): Evaluator, Centre for Biologics Evaluation, Health Canada, Ottawa, ON
  • Mark Chandy – Co-supervised Postdoc from 2014-2016; Current Position (as of 2024): Scientist, Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, ON
  • Makon-Sebastien Njock – Postdoc from 2012-2015; Current Position (as of 2024): Researcher, University Hospital of Liege, Liege, Belgium
  • Lan Dang – Postdoc from 2012-2015; Current Position (as of 2024): Senior Scientist, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Nirojini Sivachandran – Postdoc from 2012-2013; Current Position (as of 2024): Vitreoentinal Fellow, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON


Staff

 
  • Corey Scipione – Scientific Associate from 2024-2025; Current Position (as of 2025): Assay Development Scientist, Vital Bio, Oakville, ON 
  • Garry Yu – Research Technician from 2021-2024; Current Position (as of 2025): Retired
  • Kamalben Prajapati – Research Technician from 2020-2024; Current Position (as of 2025): Graduate Student in Howe Lab
  • Zhiqi Chen – Technician from 2015-2020; Current Position (as of 2025): Retired


Undergraduate Trainees

 
  • Alex Ball – Summer Student in 2025; Current Position (as of 2025): Medical Student, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
  • Papina Gnaneswaran – Summer Student in 2023; Current Position (as of 2024): Undergraduate student at the University of Toronto, Mississauga, ON
  • Keshini Sriarulnathan – Co-op Student in 2022; Current Position (as of 2024): Undergraduate student at Waterloo University, Waterloo, ON
  • Crizza Ching – Summer Student in 2019; Current Position (as of 2025): PhD student in Fish lab
  • Isabel de Verteuil – Summer Student in 2019; Current Position (as of 2024): Undergraduate Student, McGill University, Montreal, QC
  • Melvin Khor – Undergraduate Thesis Project Student from 2015-2017; Current Position (as of 2024): Department of Nursing, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
  • Bobak Mahtash – Undergraduate Thesis Project Student from 2017-2018
  • Michael Dewar – Summer Student from 2018-2019; Current Position (as of 2025): Graduate student, Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
  • Sabrina Cancelliere – VicOne Program Student in 2017; Current Position (as of 2024): Medical Student, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
  • Saul Feinstein – Undergraduate Volunteer from 2011-2012; Current Position (as of 2024): Occupational Cancer Research Centre, Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, ON
  • Jennifer Wong – Undergraduate Volunteer from 2011-2013


Visiting Scientists

  • Lars Maegdefessel – Visiting Scientist in 2025; Current Position: Director at Institute of Molecular Vascular Medicine, TUM University Hospital, Germany 
  • Mandy Turner – Current Position: Research fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
  • Lindsay Fitzpatrick – Visiting Scientist in 2014; Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Queens University
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