Acosta Bedon, Ana

  Ana Acosta Bedón is an MSc student from the Medical Genetics program at the University of British Columbia. She plans to transfer to the PhD program to continue her research on genomic variation, improving its interpretation in both population-level newborn screening and rare disease contexts. She is originally from Ecuador and earned her Honors […]

Lang, Evelyn

  Evelyn Lang is a PhD student in Human Nutrition in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia (UBC), and a dietitian under the supervision of Dr. Michael Zulyniak. Her research focuses on gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), maternal metabolism, and postpartum health. She is particularly interested in postpartum weight […]

Laksman, Zachary

  Zachary Laksman is a cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist in Vancouver, British Columbia, with a clinical focus on cardiogenetics, clinical electrophysiology, sports cardiology, stem cell disease modeling and drug screening, biomedical engineering, artificial intelligence and innovation. He is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia in the Department of Medicine and the School […]

Hohman, Leah

  Leah is a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Lisa Osborne’s lab at the University of British Columbia. Her work aims to elucidate mechanisms between age-related alterations to the microbiome, intestinal immune populations, and the central nervous system during neuroinflammatory disease.

Waliwitiya, Thunuvi

  Thunuvi is a medical student with a strong passion for women’s reproductive health and wellness. Deeply committed to patient education and advocacy, she is interested in bridging the gap between complex medical knowledge and everyday understanding. Her goal is to make health information more accessible, approachable, and empowering for women at every stage of […]

Wang, Qi

McPhee, Carlie

  Carlie McPhee is an incoming PhD trainee whose work focuses on youth sexual health, digital health education, and equitable access to sexual health information and services for young people and gender-diverse communities. Her research and knowledge translation work draws on principles of comprehensive sexual health education, feminist and anti-oppressive practice, and community-engaged research. Carlie […]

Akbari, Mohsen

  Dr. Mohsen Akbari is a Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering, the Director of the Laboratory for Innovations in Microengineering (LiME) at the University of Victoria. Dr. Akbari obtained his Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University and received postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is the recipient of several awards […]

Ciernia, Annie

  I am an early career researcher in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of British Columbia, and the Tier 2 Canada Research Chair for Understanding Gene Expression in the Brain. My research focuses on gene regulatory mechanisms in microglia – the resident immune cells of the brain – and how […]