
LAB MEMBERS

Lauren Forgrave, BSc
graduate student
Proteinopathies & biomarker discovery
Recipient of a CIHR Banting and Best Canada Graduate Scholarship, 2021 Dr. van Tol Travel Fellowship from Brain Canada, Canada Graduate Scholarship - Master's Award, 2019 Outstanding Graduate Student Award UBC Dept of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and 2018 UBC Drabinsky Graduate Scholarship in Medicine

Dr. Meng Wang, PhD
postdoctoral fellow
Novel assay development
Recipient of a Mitacs & Pacific Airway Center Postdoctoral Fellowship

David Yang, BSc
research assistant

Khushbu Patel, BSc
graduate student
Coordination of IMPACT-AD Canada and IMPACT-AD British Columbia studies
IMPACT-AD personal utility studies
Recipient of the UBC Faculty of Medicine Graduate Award

Yun Li, BSc
research assistant
Research assistant for COVID-19 & FTD studies
Recipient of the 2022 Centre for Heart Lung Innovation James Hogg Grant and the 2021 UBC Faculty of Medicine Summer Student Research Program award

Jordan Hamden, PhD
postdoctoral fellow
Proteinopathies & novel assay development

Cyril Helbling
graduate student
Visiting international research student from L'École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Phoebe Lu
research assistant
Recipient of the UBC Dept of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Summer Student Fellowship Program

Lab Alumni
(position in lab & awards received)
Mennwa Abouelatta, BSc, visiting summer research fellowship, Southern Methodist University
Recipient of the McManus Innovation Award
Colleen Chambers, BA, research assistant, UBC co-op program
Pawan Dhaliwal, BSc, BMLSc directed studies program
Hannah Dreskler, BSc, summer research fellowship & research assistant
Recipient of the UBC Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Summer Student Fellowship and BC Proteomics Network Fellowship; Best Poster, UBC Pathology Day
Charlie Hua, BSc, summer research fellowship
Recipient of the UBC Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Summer Student Fellowship
Charlie Kuan, MSc, research assistant
Rhoda Lam, BSc, BMLSc directed studies program
Jessica Li, graphic designer, Emily Carr University co-op program
John Lim, BSc, BMLSc directed studies program
Matthew Ma, BSc, summer undergraduate research fellowship
Recipient of the BC Proteomics Network Fellowship
Matthew Masoudi, BSc MM, research assistant
Raha Masoudi, BSc, undergraduate student
Recipient of the BC Proteomics Network Fellowship
Amy Nguyen, MSc, master's student
Recipient of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging's 2018 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference Travel Award and the BC Proteomics Network Travel Award; Centre for Heart Lung Innovation 2018 Trainee Research Day - Best Poster Presentation
Taylor Pobran, MSc, graduate student & research assistant
Awarded Master of Science with honors
Serena Singh, PhD, postdoctoral fellow
Recipient of the MSFHR Postdoctoral Fellowship (co-funded by the Pacific Parkinson's Research Institute), and 2018 MSACL Trainee Travel Grant
Junyan Shi PhD, postdoctoral fellow
Recipient of the MSFHR Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2018 MSACL Young Investigator Travel Grant, 2018 CIHR Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health Travel Award, and the American Association for Clinical Chemistry 2018 Student Research Award
Simone Thair PhD, clinical researcher
Terry Wong BSc, BMLSc directed studies program & summer research fellowship
Recipient of the UBC Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Summer Student Fellowship Program
Yu Zi (Emma) Zheng PhD, postdoctoral fellow
Recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship from the Alzheimer Society of Canada and the Firefly Foundation Spark Award