Biography:

 

Dr. Laura Evgin is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia and a Scientist at the BC Cancer Research Institute in Vancouver, Canada. She earned her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Ottawa under the guidance of Dr. John Bell and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, with Dr. Richard Vile. In 2020, Dr. Evgin established her independent research group focusing on enhancing the efficacy and accessibility of T cell therapies for cancer treatment. Her lab leverages diverse tools and model systems to design novel chimeric antigen receptors (CARs), develop CAR T cell engineering strategies both ex vivo and in vivo, and evaluate CAR T cell function in immune-competent models of cancer and autoimmune disease. Dr. Evgin holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Cancer Immunotherapy, and has been recognized with a Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar Award and a Gairdner New Investigator Award.