Current Students
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Abate, Natnael
MSc Student, Cancer Sciences; Supervisor - Dr. Michael Hendzel
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Al-Imarah, Shay
PhD Student, Cancer Sciences; Supervisor - Dr. Kristi Baker
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Babawale, Odunola Grace |
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Bernier, Cécilia MSc Student, Cancer Sciences; Supervisor - Dr. Roseline Godbout & Dr. Hélene Lemieux |
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Blackwood, Samantha MSc Student, Cancer Sciences; Supervisor - Dr. Armin Gamper |
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Chen, Angie PhD Student, Cancer Sciences; Supervisor - Dr. Kristi Baker |
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Cox, Zachary MSc Student, Medical Physics; Supervisor - Dr. Gino Fallone |
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Gazor, Alireza
MSc Student; Medical Physics; Supervisor - Dr. Geetha Menon
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Han, Gawon
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Handa, Bhumika |
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Hossain, Lazina |
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Islam, Ali
MSc Student, Medical Physics; Supervisor - Dr. Geetha Menon
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Karimpour, Rana MSc Student, Cancer Sciences; Supervisor - Dr. Michael Hendzel |
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Kate, Wisdom
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Klautau Toffoli, Jose Antonio
MSc Student, Medical Physics; Supervisor - Dr. Gino Fallone
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Knechtel, Justin Determinants of heterochromatin protein localization and compartmentalization |
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Korodimas, Jacob MSc Student, Cancer Sciences; Supervisor - Dr. Spencer Gibson |
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Mashayekhi, Fatemeh |
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McMurtry, Elizabeth MSc Student, Cancer Sciences; Supervisor - Dr. Spencer Gibson |
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Morris, Kayleigh
MSc Student, Cancer Sciences; Supervisor - Dr. Kristi Baker
Exploring myeloid cell activity in early and late stage colorectal cancer
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Mosely, Shayla Cytosolic DNA from DNA damage and its effects on intracellular signaling in colorectal cancer |
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Muzaffar, Fatima
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Nakevska, Zoe MSc Student, Cancer Sciences; Supervisor - Dr. YangXin Fu & Dr. Chen-Han Lee |
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Nelson, Bryce Production of radiopharmaceuticals for tumor imaging and therapy |
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Oliva, Patricia Autosegmentation of organs-at-risk in cervial brachytherapy |
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Peyton, Seth
MSc Student, Cancer Sciences; Supervisor - Dr. Roseline Godbout
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Rebbouh, Farah
PhD Student, Cancer Sciences; Supervisor - Dr. Roseline Godbout & Dr. Hélene Lemieux
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Rémillard, Léo
MSc Student, Medical Physics; Supervisor - Dr. Nick de Zanche
Metamaterials for ultra-high field head MRI
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Roemer, Anastasia |
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Safarpour, Samaneh
MSc Student, Cancer Sciences; Supervisor - Dr. Spencer Gibson
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Schultz, Ben Characterization of MLC Latency for Non-Invasive Intrafractional Tumour-Tracked Radiotherapy (NifteRT) on Alberta linac-MR |
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Sedlock, Christopher |
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Semeniuk, Mitchell
MSc Student, Cancer Sciences; Supervisor - Dr. Roseline Godbout
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Smart, Lauren
MSc Student, Medical Physics; Supervisor - Dr. Jay Yun & Dr. Tania Wood
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Subramani Manivannan, Madhumita
MSc Student, Cancer Sciences; Supervisor - Dr. Spencer Gibson
Lysosome disrupting agents alone or in combination with venetoclax are effective therapy strategy for chronic lymphocytic leukemia
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Suri, Chahat MSc Student, Cancer Sciences; Supervisor - Dr. Frank Wuest |
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Swallow, Alec
MSc Student, Medical Physics; Supervisor - Dr. Jay Yun
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Vignjevic, Mimi
MSc Student, Cancer Sciences; Supervisor - Dr. Spencer Gibson
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Wright, Mark MRI acquisition and reconstruction for real-time tumour tracking |
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Wu, Sharon (Xiyuan)
PhD Student, Cancer Sciences; Supervisor - Dr. Gordon Chan
Mechanisms in synthetic lethality of targeting cell cycle checkpoints and mitotic catastrophe in cancer cells
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Zeinali, Eli
MSc Student, Cancer Sciences; Supervisor - Dr. Ismail Ismail
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Zhao, Yimiao
MSc Student, Medical Physics; Supervisor - Dr. Gino Fallone
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Alumni Graduates
A graduate degree from the Department of Oncology can lead to many different opportunities in the future. Here you will find a list of some of our graduates, highlighting where their degree in oncology has taken them.
Bhatti, IlsaMSc Student; Supervisor - Dr. Spencer GibsonThe role of LC3 binding proteins in regulating autophagy mediated cell survival and cell death
Choi, Won Shik (Daniel)
PhD Student; Supervisor - Dr. Roseline GodboutOvercoming the retinoic acid resistance in HER2-enriched breast cancer: the role of MYC
Rafique, Tanzeem
PhD Student; Supervisor - Dr. Alan Underhill
Role of H4K20me3 in Modulating Nuclear Rigidity During Constricted Migration of Mammary Epithelial Cells
Sokhi, Sargun
MSc Student; Supervisor - Dr. Gordon ChanInvestigating Wee1 and Myt1 combined inhibition as a potential cancer therapeutic strategy
Yang, RachelMSc Student; Supervisors - Dr. Yangxin Fu and Dr. Cheng-Han LeeOncogenic pathways activated by NF1 loss in homologous recombination-proficient tubo-ovarian high-grade serous carcinoma
Experimental studies of the therapeutic and toxic effects of FOLFIRI chemotherapy in colon cancer |
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The influence of pks+ E. coli on the effectiveness of 5-FU treatment in colorectal cancer cells |
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From histones to polysomes: characterizing the epigenetic, transcriptional, and translational reprogramming in hypoxia induced breast cancer plasticity |
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Woodfield (Way), Jenilee
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Storozynsky, Quinn
PhD Student; Supervisor - Dr. Mary HittCombining an Oncolytic Vaccinia Virus with Image-Guided Radiotherapy for Treatment of Malignant Glioma
Locke, Andrew
PhD Student; Supervisor - Dr. Ismail IsmailRegulation of Double-Strand Break Repair
Bin Rashed, Faisal
PhD Graduate; Cancer Sciences
Barta, Radim
PhD Graduate; Medical Physics
Chow, Braden
PhD Graduate; Medical Physics
Chen, Huachen
PhD Graduate; Cancer Sciences
Jiang, Bingcheng
PhD Graduate; Cancer Sciences
Ferguson, Simon
PhD Graduate; Medical Physics
Johnson, Neil
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MSc Graduate; Medical Physics
Purchase, Aaron
PhD Graduate; Medical Physics
Zhou, Jiesi
PhD Graduate; Medical Physics
Brown, Douglas
PhD Graduate; Cancer Sciences
Bukhari, Amirali
PhD Graduate; Cancer Sciences
Hough, Cameron
PhD Graduate; Medical Physics
Smith, Joanne
MSc Graduate; Cancer Sciences
I am a research technician in Dr. Gordon Chan and Dr. Alan Underhill's labs here at the Cross Cancer Institute. I help manage the lab, train and help others with their research, and work on my own research project.
Wang, Yixiong (Jack)
PhD Graduate; Cancer Sciences
Xu,Xia
PhD Graduate; Cancer Sciences
Dinakaran, Deepak
PhD Graduate; Cancer Sciences
I am completing my postgraduate medical residency in Radiation Oncology at the Cross Cancer Institute.
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Fallone, Clara
PhD Graduate; Medical Physics
Medical Physics resident in Halifax Nova Scotia
Crowley, Powel
MSc Graduate; Cancer Sciences
Powel is currently working as a Research Assistant in Dr. Mary Hitt's lab. Their research is investigating the use of oncolytic vaccinia virus as a gene therapy vector for treatment of granulosa cell tumour.
Mowat, Courtney
MSc Graduate; Cancer Sciences
I am a research technician in Dr. Kristi Baker's lab here at the Cross Cancer Institute. I help manage the lab, train and help others with their research, and work on my own research project.
Cawston-Grant, Brie
MSc Graduate; Medical Physics
Potts, Kyle
PhD Graduate; Experimental Oncology
Research Associate at the University of Calgary in Douglas Mahoney Lab.
Brun, Miranda
PhD Graduate; Experimental Oncology
Clinical Biochemist, Alberta Precision Laboratories. Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta.
Ismail, Abdou Ismail
PhD Graduate; Cancer Sciences
Tietz, Ole
PhD Graduate; Cancer Sciences
After completing my PhD I continued my academic career with postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford. I am currently a Research Fellow at the Dementia Research Centre, Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.
Esfandiari, Nina
MSc Graduate; Oncology
Hildebrandt, Matthew
PhD Graduate; Cancer Sciences
Following my PhD I continued my academic career in Toronto where I was a post-doctoral fellow in Dr. James Ellis' lab at SickKids. There I switched from working with mice to human induced pluripotent stem cells and collaborated with several labs to study neurodevelopmental and cardiac disease models. In 2019 I transitioned from academia to industry where I took a position as an Associate Product Manager for Pluripotent Stem Cell Biology at STEMCELL Technologies in Vancouver.
Paudel, Moti
PhD Graduate; Medical Physics
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto; Medical Physicist, Department of Medical Physics, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center.
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Zepeda, Nubia
MSc Graduate; Experimental Oncology
Since graduating from the Department of Oncology at the University of Alberta, I have used my degree in conducting and supporting academic research that spans biomedical, clinical and health services research programs. Specifically, I have worked as a Project Lead with the Surgery Strategic Clinical Network and the Canadian VIGOUR Centre in Edmonton. More recently, I moved to Calgary and am currently the Managing Director of Sepsis Canada, a CIHR funded research network at McMaster University.
El-Sehemy, Ahmed
MSc Graduate; Cancer Sciences
Studying medicine at University of Toronto.
PhD Graduate; Cancer Sciences
Heit, Ryan
MSc Graduate; Cancer Sciences
Elwi, Adam
PhD Graduate; Cancer Sciences
Senior Management Consultant, CGI
McPherson, Robyn
MSc Graduate; Experimental Oncology
After completing my graduate program with the Oncology department I attended medical school at the University of Calgary. I then completed residency in Pediatric Neurology at the Alberta Children's Hospital in Calgary, Alberta. I am currently working as a community Pediatric Neurologist in Edmonton, Alberta.
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Pervez, Nadeem
MSc Graduate; Cancer Sciences
Keats, Jonathan
PhD Graduate; Cancer Sciences
Completed 5 year fellowship at Mayo Clinic in cancer genomics. Joined the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), now an affiliate of City of Hope, as a faculty member in 2010. Currently, 2021, Director of Bioinformatics (TGen), Director Collaborative Sequencing Center (TGen), Assistant Professor - Integrated Cancer Genomics (TGen), Scientific Director - Judy and Bernard Briskin Center for Multiple Myeloma Research (COH).