Chung, Vivian

  Vivian Chung, P.Eng, is a biomedical engineer whose research focuses on automotive injuries, helmet technologies, and intraoperative surgical technologies. Vivian oversees the Bioengineering Lab and Makerspace at the Centre for Aging SMART at Vancouver Coastal Health, and also conducts research with Dr. Peter Cripton’s team at the University of British Columbia’s Orthopaedic and Injury […]

Friesen, Rebecca

  Rebecca Friesen is a project coordination and operations professional with experience supporting governance, research administration, and health‑system initiatives across British Columbia. She has contributed to projects in emergency management, clinical systems implementation, and interdisciplinary research environments. Rebecca holds a Master of Management (MM) from the UBC Sauder School of Business and is a certified […]

Tremblay, Marie-Ève

  Marie-Ève Tremblay is a Canadian neuroscientist, researcher and academic at the University of Victoria. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2009 when microglia, resident immune cells of the brain, were thought to be resting or quiescent in the absence of pathological challenge. Her research has stimulated a paradigm shift in neuroimmunology by revealing that microglia […]

Friedman, Jan M.

  Dr. Jan Friedman is a clinical geneticist and Professor of Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He earned M.S. and M.D. degrees from Tulane University and a PhD in Genetics from the University of Washington. He completed specialty training in pediatrics (Northwestern University) and medical genetics (University of Washington). He joined […]

Lee, Geena

  Geena Lee is a first-year MSc student in the Cell and Developmental Biology program at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and a member of the Maxwell Lab at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute. Her research focuses on hormonally regulated epithelial dynamics in the fallopian tube and how BRCA1 deficiency contributes to tissue-specific cancer […]

Ho, Rebecca

  I am a graduate student interested in elucidating the epigenetic alterations that occur in rare endometrial and ovarian cancers called dedifferentiated carcinoma of the endometrium and ovary. By studying the epigenome of these cancers, I hope to better understand how these tumours progress to inform treatment development.

Fernando, Isabelle

Osborne, Lisa

  Dr Osborne completed her doctoral research training at the University of British Columbia, focusing on cytokine-mediated regulation of T cell development and function. With support of the Edmond J Safra Irvington fellowship from the Cancer Research Institute, she completed post-doctoral fellowship training at the University of Pennsylvania where her research examined immune regulation at […]

Wilks, Natalie

  Natalie earned her BSc. in Biology at the University of Guadalajara and to continue in the pursuit of research and innovation became a graduate student in Experimental Medicine at the University of British Columbia, working at the Vaccine Evaluation Centre. I am passionate about biology and infectious diseases, I envision a future where nature […]