Michalowski, Victoria

Dang, Xiaoqing Blandine

  Xiaoqing (Blandine) Dang is a PhD candidate in the Women+ and Children’s Health (WACH) Program at the University of British Columbia and BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute, supervised by Dr. Pascal Lavoie. Her research focuses on neonatal immunology, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), maternal-newborn immunity, and population-level approaches to understanding why some infants are more […]

Harper, Joanna

  Dr Joanna Harper earned her PhD in exercise science from Loughborough University in January 2024. Her area of study was the performance of transgender athletes. Dr Harper completed a post-doctoral scholar position at Oregon Health & Science University in July 2025, and started a position at Western University in London Canada in September 2025. […]

Peng, Amaris

Zhao, Henry

  Henry Zhao, MD, is a Plastic Surgery resident at the University of British Columbia and a Clinician Investigator Program Fellow. He holds a Master of Translational Medicine from the University of California, Berkeley/UCSF, with training in biomedical engineering, clinical trials, and med tech innovation. His research focuses on surgical innovation and natural language processing […]

Wu, Jolie Wanlin

  Jolie is a Master’s student in the Rosin Laboratory at UBC, where she explores changes in gene expression in the developing fetal hypothalamus in response to maternal sleep disruptions during pregnancy. Her research aims to investigate how prenatal maternal sleep disruption alters the development of different regions and cell types of the fetal hypothalamus […]

Ortega Espitia, Lina Marcela

  I am an undergraduate psychology student from Colombia with a strong interest in health psychology, research, and women’s wellbeing. I am currently joining the University of British Columbia as a visiting research intern, where I will be working with Dr. Lori Brotto’s team on projects related to eHealth interventions. My academic background has allowed […]

Takei, Fumio

  BSc University of Tokyo 1967, PhD University of British Columbia 1976, postdoctoral research, MRC Lab Mol Biol, Cambridge, UK 1977-1980, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UBC, 1980-86, Associate Professor, UBC, 1986-1991, Professor 1991-, Distinguished Scientist, Terry Fox Laboratory, BC Cancer Research interests: innate lymphocytes and inflammatory diseases Publication relevant to WHRI: […]

Graf, Daniel

  Daniel Graf received his BSc (Biochemistry) and PhD (Immunology) from the Swiss Federal School of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland. For almost 20 years he has used genetic models to study craniofacial, oral, and dental development. He moved to the University of Alberta in 2014, where he held the Alberta Dental Association & College Endowed Chair […]