Alumni


Graduate Students

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


Postdoctoral Fellows

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


Technicians


  • Kamalben Prajapati – Research Technician from 2020-2024; Current Position: Graduate Student in Howe Lab
  • Zhiqi Chen – Technician from 2015-2020; Current Position: Retired


Undergraduate Trainees

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


Visiting Scientists

  • Mandy Turner – Current Position: Research fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School 
  • Lindsay Fitzpatrick – Visiting Scientist in 2014; Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Queens University
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