Click here 2014-2015 Trainees to view and/or download a 6 pages document of all current trainees
Second Year Trainees

Stephanie Campbell
Email: stephi.campbell@alumni.ubc.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Brad Hoffman
Email: brad.hoffman@ubc.ca
Lab: Child and Family Research Institute
Project: Use of chromatin-modifying factors in reprogramming to generate β-cells

Samuel Chow
Email: sam.zwchow@gmail.com
Supervisor: Dr. Jan Ehses
Email: jan.ehses@ubc.ca
Lab: Child and Family Research Institute
Project: Gp130 receptor signaling as a mediator of α-cell dysfunction in type 2 diabetes

Romy Hoeppli
Email: romy.hoeppli@alumni.ubc.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Megan Levings
Email: megan.levings@ubc.ca
Lab: Child and Family Research Institute
Project: Regulatory T cell therapy in transplantation

Ali Hosseini
Email: ali.hosseini@alumni.ubc.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Christopher Carlsten
Email: carlsten@mail.ubc.ca
Lab: Occupational and Environmental Lung Disease, VGH
Project: Combined allergen and diesel exhaust in human airway submucosa synergizes innate and immune responses associated with organ rejection

Sumin Jo
Email: suminjo@alumni.ubc.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Peter van den Elzen / Dr. Gregor Reid
Email: pvde@mail.ubc.ca / grogreid@mail.ubc.ca
Lab: Child & Family Research Institute
Project: Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT)

Chris Laver
Email: claver@alumni.ubc.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Kevin Gregory-Evans
Email: kge30@mail.ubc.ca
Lab: Gregory-Evans Retinal Therapeutics Lab
Project: Generation and transplantation of photoreceptor precursor cells (PPCs) for the treatment of retinal degeneration

Anne Pesenacker
Email: a.pesenacker@ubc.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Megan Levings
Email: megan.levings@ubc.ca
Lab: Child & Family Research Institute
Project: The role of chemokine production by T regulatory cells

Soroush Shakibakho
Email: soroush.shakiba@gmail.com
Supervisor: Dr. Alice Mui
Email: alice.mui@ubc.ca
Lab: Jack Bell Research Centre
Project: Cell regulatory networks involved in graft accommodation or rejection

Dan Wu
Email: dan.wu@alumni.ubc.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Megan Levings
Email: megan.levings@ubc.ca
Lab: Child and Family Research Institute
Project: Gene signatures of transplantation tolerance

Eric Xu
Email: ericxu@cfri.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Francis Lynn
Email: francis.lynn@ubc.ca
Lab: Child & Family Research Institute
Project: Sox4 regulates pancreatic endocrine cell development

Parvin Yenki
Email: ericxu@cfri.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Chris Ong
Email: chris.ong@ubc.ca
Lab: Jack Bell Research Centre
Project: Borrelidin as a novel immunosuppressive strategy to reduce transplant rejection
First Year Trainees

Michal, Aharoni-Simon
Email: michal60@gmail.com
Supervisor: Dr. Dan Luciani
Email: dan.luciani@gmail.com
Lab: Child and Family Research Institute
Project: Roles of BcL-2 in β-Cell Oxidative Stress in Diabetes and Pancreatic Islet Transplantation

Laura Cook
Email: laura.cook28@gmail.com
Supervisor: Dr. Megan Levings
Email: megan.levings@ubc.ca
Lab: Child & Family Research Institute
Project: Optimizing an ex vivo Treg expansion protocol for use in transplantation therapy

Nicholas Dawson
Email: n.dawson@me.com
Supervisor: Dr. Megan Levings
Email: megan.levings@ubc.ca
Lab: Child & Family Research Institute
Project: Immune reconstitution and gene signatures of transplant tolerance

Nastaran Khazamipour
Email: n_khazamipour@yahoo.com
Supervisor: Dr. Alice Mui
Email: alice.mui@ubc.ca
Lab:Jack Bell Research Centre
Project: Mimicking interleukin-10 to prevent graft rejection

Mohsen Khosravi Maharlooei
Email: mk.maharlooei@gmail.com
Supervisor: Dr. Aziz Ghahary
Email: aziz.ghahary@ubc.ca
Lab: Ghahary lab, ICORD Centre
Project: A novel cell therapy based approach for induction of immune tolerance to allo-transplantation

Mahdis Monajemi
Email: mmonajemi@cfri.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Laura Sly
Email: laurasly@mail.ubc.ca
Lab: Sly Lab, Child and Family Research Institute
Project: The Carma/Bcl-10/Malt1 complex regulates NFkB-driven inflammation

Aaron Moulson
Email: aaronmoulson@gmail.com
Supervisor: Dr. Wolfram Tetzlaff
Email: tetzlaff@icord.org
Lab: Blusson Spinal Cord Centre
Project: The functional contribution of transplanted skin-derived precursor (SKP) Schwann cells

Vahitha Shameem Nizamudhee
Email: vahitha@alumni.ubc.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Cheryl Gregory-Evans
Email: cge30@eyecarecentre.org
Lab: Eye Care Centre, Vancouver General Hospital
Project: Transplantation of genetically engineered mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) to reverse anterior segment eye defects in aniridia causing glaucoma and subsequent blindness

Mohammadreza Pakyari
Email: sam.pakyari@gmail.com
Supervisors: Dr. Erin Brown and Dr. Aziz Ghahary
Emails: erin.brown@ubc.ca and aziz.ghahary@ubc.ca
Lab: Plastic Surgery; Ghahary lab, ICORD Centre
Project: Development of non-rejectable skin graft by induction of local immune tolerance

Evgeniy Panzhinskiy
Email: evgeniy.panzhinskiy@ubc.ca
Supervisor: Dr. James D Johnson
Email: james.d.johnson@ubc.ca
Lab: James Johnson's lab, Life Science Center
Project: Targeted and untargeted approaches to reversing ER-stress in pancreatic β-cells

Nina Quiskamp
Email: quiskamp@mail.ubc.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Timothy Kieffer
Email: tim.kieffer@ubc.ca
Lab: Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, Life Science Center
Project: Treatment of Diabetes with Stem Cell Derived Islets

Kevin Rey
Email: peru.rey@gmail.com
Supervisor: Dr. Jonathan Choy
Email: jonathan.choy@sfu.ca
Lab: Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, SFU
Project: The role and underlying mechanism of IL-17 in transplant vasculopathy

Frank Wang
Email: tianren.wang@mail.utoronto.ca
Supervisor: Dr. Alice Mui
Email: alice.mui@ubc.ca
Lab:Jack Bell Research Centre