Li, Eunice

Moraes, Christopher

  Chris Moraes is an Associate Professor at the School of Biomedical Engineering at the University of British Columbia, and at the International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries in the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute.  He trained in nanoengineering (B.A.Sc) and mechanical / biomedical engineering (PhD) at the University of Toronto, before holding NSERC / Howard […]

Al-Salehi, Loay

  Dr. Loay Al-Salehi is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia’s School of Biomedical Engineering, working within the Orthopaedic and Injury Biomechanics Laboratory at ICORD. His research focuses on injury biomechanics, with a particular interest in how human posture, and neuromuscular responses in the seconds or milliseconds before impact influence injury outcome. […]

Hewson, Claire

  Claire Hewson is based in Nelson, British Columbia. She balances her leadership work with roles as a school counsellor and a third-year PhD student at Queen’s University, where she studies healthcare quality. Her doctoral research focuses on experiences of breast- and chest-feeding grief in rural settings, with the aim of understanding the emotional impacts […]

Prabaharan, Elakkiya

  Elakkiya is a Master’s student supervised by Dr. Alexander G. Beristain at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute. Her research focuses on the molecular mechanisms underlying human placental development during early pregnancy. Using stem cell models of placentation alongside advanced gene-editing techniques, she aims to investigate the role of SOX15 in the development of […]

Won, Erica

  Erica is a current medical student at UBC who graduated with an undergraduate degree in Microbiology and Immunology.

Sybersma, Annika

Ng, Michelle

  Dr. Michelle Ng is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Marco Marra at the Michael Smith Laboratories and BC Cancer Research Institute. Her work centers on genome structure and regulation in human papillomavirus (HPV) associated cancers, in particular cervical and vulvar cancers.

Fitzpatrick, Erin

  Originally from Nova Scotia, Erin graduated with an Honours degree in Psychology from Dalhousie University in 2020 and a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from UBC in 2023. She is now a PhD Candidate in the Clinical Psychology program at UBC. Her MA research in the SWell Lab research used complex dyadic longitudinal and […]