Graduate Supervisors

Alphabetical List of Faculty and Their Research

Arany, Edith

  • Nutrition during pregnancy and lactation and its impact in the development of disease, One Health

Asfaha, Samuel

  • Stem cells, colon cancer, gastroenterology

Bhattacharjee, Rabindra

  • Drug repositioning in organ preservation, transplant immunity, ischemia reperfusion injury, Toll-like receptor, inflammation

Brackstone, Muriel

  • Breast cancer, translational research, colorectal cancer

Cameron, Lisa

  • Inflammation, functional genetics, molecular regulation, Th2 immunity, allergic disease, One Health

Castellani, Christina

  • Cardiovascular disease, mitochondrial DNA, computational genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, complex disease, gene-environment interactions, bioinformatics, One Health

Chakrabarti, Subrata 

  • Chronic diabetic complications, vascular biology, epigenetic mechanisms

Cecchini, Matthew 

  • Pathology image analysis, machine learning, interstitial lung disease, lung cancer

Delport, Johan 

  • Carbapenemase, MALDI-TOF, rapid diagnostics, resistance mechanisms, antibiotic stewardship, One Health

Dhanvantari, Savita 

  • Diabetes, molecular imaging

Dick, Frederick A. 

  • Genome instability, epigenetics, molecularly targeted cancer therapy

Feng, Biao

  • MicroRNAs, long non-coding RNAs

Frisbee, Stephanie

  • Cardiovascular health and disease, stroke, risk factors, epidemiology, environmental health and epidemiology, behavioral health economics, health outcomes, health policy, perfluoroalkyl acids, integrated systems of health, One Health

Hoffman, Lisa

  • Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, positron emission tomography, non-invasive imaging of migration of satellite cells

Howlett, Christopher

  • Lymphoproliferative disorders, Hodgkin Lymphoma, neuroendocrine tumours

Hutnik, Cindy

  • Ophthalmology

Jevnikar, Anthony

  • Transplantation, autoimmunity

 Khan, Zia

  • Stem cells, endothelial cells, diabetes, vasculogenesis, angiogenesis, blood vessels, hemangiomas, vascular tumors

Kiser, Patti

  • Experimental, comparative pathology; One Health

Lin, Hanxin

  • Clinical molecular genetics

Luke, Patrick

  • Immunology, transplantation and organ failure

Maleki, Saman

  • Tumor immunology, neoantigen, T-cells, microbiome, fecal microbiota transplantation, neuroblastoma, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, pancreatic cancer, melanoma, head and neck cancer

McKinley, Gerald

  • Indigenous health, social determinants of mental health, suicide prevention, eco-system health, One Health

Min, Wei-Ping

  • Transplantation, autoimmunity; immunopathology, immunomodulation

Nichols, Anthony

(Not currently recruiting for the Graduate Diploma program) 
  • Thyroid cancer, head and neck cancer, robotic surgery, microvascular reconstruction

Olea-Popelka, Francisco

  • One Health, public health, veterinary medicine, epidemiology, infectious diseases, zoonoses, domestic species, wild animals, humans

Pasternak, Stephen

  • Neurodegenerative disease, Alzheimer’s disease, Lewy Body disease, Parksinon’s disease , dementia

Peng, Tianqing

  • Cardiovascular disease

Poon, Art

  • Graduate Chair, Research Based Program
    Virus evolution, bioinformatics, phylogenetics, molecular evolution, phylodynamics, machine learning, One Health

Rieder, Michael J.

  • Mechanisms of adverse drug reactions, ecosystem health

Rupar, Tony

  • Clinical biochemical genetics, newborn screening, inborn errors of metabolism

Sadikovic, Bekim

  • Clinical molecular genetics, clinical cytogenetics, NGS

Schenkel, Laila

  • Epigenetics, molecular test development, NGS

Shooshtari, Parisa

  • Bioinformatics, machine learning, data analysis, single-cell sequencing, cancer, autoimmunity

Shkrum, Michael J.

  • Forensic pathology, motor vehicle trauma

Wang, Rennian

  • Endocrinology, metabolism

Wylie, Lloy

  • Systems research, One Health

Zhang, Qi

  • Brain tumors (including metastatic tumors), neurodegenerative diseases, and developmental neuroscience

Zhang, Zhu-Xu

  • Transplant immunology

Zheng, Xiufen

  • Transplantation, autoimmunity, immunopathology