News
Announcements:
Congratulations to the Asfaha Lab Team on being featured in LHSCRI News! This report, entitled " 'Junk DNA' could hold clues to how colorectal cancer arises, study suggests" describes exciting investigations being conducted in the lab and includes a video of Dr. Asfaha explaining the research. View the article.
Congratulations to Frederikke Larsen, Postdoc Associate in the Asfaha Lab! In celebration of International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Frederikke was featured in LHSCRI News as a woman making her mark in science. (Photo credit: LHSC Photographer Rena Panchyshyn.) Read Frederikke's story.
Congratulations to Asfaha Lab Postdoctoral Associate Frederikke Larsen, first author of article "Viral mimicry acts as a tumor suppressor in colitis", published February 4, 2026 in Nature Communications (Nat Commun). View the journal article.
We are pleased to announce the successful MSc defense for Ginnian Leung for her thesis titled "Role of Ezh2 in colitis-associated cancer". View Ginnian's thesis.
We are pleased to announce the succesful MSc defense for Mitchell Pallister for his thesis titled "Role of 5-lipoxoxygenase-expressing myeloid cells in colitis". View Mitchell's thesis.
We are pleased to announce the successful PhD defense for Frederikke Larsen for her thesis titled "The role of viral mimicry in colitis-associated cancer". View Frederikke's thesis.
Congratulations to Asfaha team graduate Dr. Alice Shin, first author of article "F4/80+Ly6Chigh macrophages lead to cell plasticity and cancer inititiation in colitis", published in the April 2023 issue of Gastroenterology.
We are pleased to announce the successful MSc defense for Venkat Mani Murugan, for his thesis titled "The role of 5-lipooxygenase expressing cells in homeostatis, injury and colitis-associated cancer". View Venkat's thesis.
We are pleased to announce the successful MSc defense for Ojan Khosravifar, for his thesis titled "Single cell analyses of mouse models of colitis". View Ojan's thesis.
We are pleased to announce the successful MSc defense for Brandon Brower, for his thesis titled "Development of an in-vitro model of colitis". View Brandon's thesis.
We are pleased to announce the successful PhD defense for Alice Shin, for her thesis titled "The role of inflammation and tuft cells in colorectal cancer". View Alice's thesis.
We are pleased to announce the successful MSc defense for Sachin Kakar, for his thesis titled "Development of a tissue specific bioscaffold for intestinal stem cell culture".
We are pleased to announce the successful PhD defense for Hayley Good, for her thesis titled "The role of inflammation in the initiation of colitis-associated cancer". View Hayley's thesis.
