We are proud to have a diverse team of scientists from various backgrounds, both scientifically and culturally, as it makes our team stronger through the different perspectives we can share.
Meet Our Team
Dr. Jaeyong Lee
Research Associate - 2020
Armando Palacios
PhD. Candidate - 2022
High Resolution Macromolecular
Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility
Alumni
Research Associates
Florian Rossmann
2020-2023
Environment Manager - Amrize
Federico Rosell
2002-2021
Scientific Operations Manager - Precison NanoSystems, Vancouver, BC
Craig Robb
2019-2021
Research Scientist - Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC
Gunnar Olovsson
2001 - 2013
Richard Pfuetzner
Research Associate
1998 - 2004
1998 - 2004
Research Specialist - Howard Hughes Medical Institute & Stanford University
Research Team
Ana Niciforovic
Lab Manager
2016 - 2018
2016 - 2018
Liza de Castro
Lab Manager
1998 - 2016
1998 - 2016
Gregory Wasney
Proteomics Core Facility Manager
2012 - 2015
2012 - 2015
Structural & Biophysical Core Facility Manager - Sick Kids, Toronto, ON
Joeseph Felt
Research Assistant - HRMEM
2019 - 2023
2019 - 2023
Senior Associate - Amgen Inc., Burnaby, BC
Ben Paetzel
Lab Technician
2022 - 2025
2022 - 2025
MSc. - Univ. Victoria
Sophia Russo
Lab Technician
2024 - 2025
2024 - 2025
Medicine - UBC
Quan Le
Lab Technician
2021 - 2022
2021 - 2022
Postdoctoral Fellow - Pharmaceutical Sciences, UBC
Adrienne Cheung
Lab Technician
2013
2013
John Mendes
Lab Technician
2002 - 2015
2002 - 2015
Manager - Insurance & Loss Prevention, UBC
Cynthia Hou
Lab Technician
2001 - 2006
2001 - 2006
Tanya Hills
Research Assistant
1999 - 2005
1999 - 2005
Research Technician - University of Toronto
Denise Dombroski
Lab Technician
1998 - 2002
1998 - 2002
Yan Luo
Lab Technician
1998 - 2001
1998 - 2001
Koto Hayakawa
Lab Technician
1997 - 1999
1997 - 1999
Igor Vuckovic
Lab Assistant
2016 - 2019
2016 - 2019
Electronics Engineer - Terramera, Vancouver, BC
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Shoeib Moradi
2021 - 2023
Scientist - Amgen, Burnaby, BC
Joshua Jenkins
2020 - 2022
Research Fellow, Structural Neuroscience, U. Leeds
Franco Li
2020 - 2022
Scientist - AbCellera, Burnaby, BC
Amy Glenwirght
2018 - 2021
Medical Writer, Genesis - Newcastle, England, UK
Juergen Niesser
2016 - 2018
European Business Development Manager, Biopharmaceuticals - Phenomenex, Munich, Germany
Tianjun Sun
2015 - 2020
Scientist - Amgen, Burnaby, BC
Natalie Zeytuni
2014 - 2019
Assist. Professor, McGill University
Deborah Conrady
2014 - 2016
Senior Sci – Emerald Biosciences, USA
Christian Lizak
2014 - 2016
Director of Partnerships, Philogen, Zurich
Solmaz Sobhanifar
2014 - 2019
Senior Science Writer - AbCellera, Vancouver, BC
Gesa Vollkers
2012 - 2015
Senior Scientist - AbCellera, Vancouver, BC
Julien Bergeron
2012 - 2017
Assoc. Professor, Kings College London
Nobuhiko Watanabe
2011 - 2015
Structural Biology Facility Manager - Univ. of Calgary
Susan Safadi
2010 - 2012
Physiotherapy, Chilliwack General Hospital - Chilliwack, BC
Emilie Lameignere
2009 - 2014
Associate Director, Antibody Assessment - AbCellera, Vancouver, BC
Rob Gruninger
2009 - 2013
Research Scientist; Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge, AB
Francesco Rao
2007 - 2010
Group Leader, Protein Sciences - Evotec Abingdon, England, UK
Gerd Prehna
2007 - 2012
Assoc. Professor, Univ. Manitoba
Thomas Spreter
2006 - 2012
Director of Protein Engineering, Zymeworks Vancouver, BC
Raz Zarivach
2005-2008
Professor of Biophysical Chemistry - Ben Gurion Univ.
Matthew Caines
2005 - 2008
Patent Lawyer D Young and Co; London, UK
Margarita Malakhova
2005 - 2006
Igor D’Angelo
2004 - 2008
Scientific Director, Molecular Design - Evotec, Thousand Oaks, California, USA
Leo Lin
2004 - 2009
Associate Scientist; iProgen Biotech, Vancouver, BC
Trevor Moraes
2004 - 2009
Professor, Biochemistry - Univ. of Toronto
Andrew Lovering
2003 - 2007
Professor, Biochemistry - Univ. Birmingham, UK
Haizhong Zhu
2003 - 2006
Sr. Scientist, Novartis
Paula Lario
2002 - 2007
Senior Scientist - AbCellera, Vancouver, BC
Lodovica Loschi
2001 - 2004
Lecturer - University of Modena, Italy
Michela Bertero
2000 - 2004
Strategy Director - IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain
Daniel Wilson
1999 - 2004
Karina Persson
1999 - 2001
Assoc. Professor - Umea University, Sweden
Yu Luo
1999 - 2002
Professor - Univ. of Saskatchewan
Elizabeth Frey
1998 - 2000
Physiotherapist and Partner - PhysioPlus Health Group, ON
Steven Mosimann
1997 - 2000
Assoc. Professor, Biochemistry - Univ. of Lethbridge
Mark Paetzel
1997 - 2002
Professor - Simon Fraser Univ.
Graduates
Franco Li
PhD. 2020
Research Scientist - AbCellera, Vancouver, BC
Dorothy Majewski
PhD. 2020
HFSP Post Doctoral Fellow - Harvard Univ.
Andrew Alexander
PhD. 2020
NSERC Post Doctoral Fellow - ETH Zürich
Nathanael Caveney
PhD. 2020
Assistant Professor - Univ. of Toronto
Sean Workman
PhD. 2020
Postdoctoral Researcher - Univ. of Regina
Dustin King
PhD. 2016
Asst. Professor of Biochemistry - Simon Fraser University
Matthew Solomonson
PhD. 2015
Assoc Director of Genomic Data Visualization - Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Brianne Burkinshaw
PhD. 2015
Assoc. Professor (Teaching) - Univ. Calgary
Angel Yu
PhD. 2012
Postdoctoral Fellow - BC Cancer, Vancouver, BC
Ho Jun Lee
PhD. 2010
Assoc. Professor - Univ. Seoul
Mike Gretes
PhD. 2009
Postdoctoral Scholar - Oregon State Univ.
Mark Wilke
PhD. 2008
Partner - Patent and Biotechnology Law, Gowling WLG, Vancouver, BC
Cecilia Chiu
PhD. 2007
Principal Scientist - Genentech, San Francisco, California, USA
Calvin Yip
PhD. 2006
Assoc. Professor of Biochemistry UBC – CIHR Investigator
Jason Gunawan
MSc. 2005
Marketing Manager - Apobiologix, Toronto, Ontario
Daniel Lim
PhD. 2004
Research Scientist - Koch Institute, MIT
Robert Campbell
PhD. 2000
Professor of Chemistry - Univ. Alberta and Univ. Tokyo
Ulrike Jacob-Dewars
MSc. 1998 (Visiting)
Honours Students
Nat Westereng
2027
BSc. Biochemistry - UBC
Ben Paetzel
2025
MSc. - Univ. of Victoria
Emily Chan
2021
Optometry School
Yalda Safei
2020
Manager, Quality Control - Canvas Labs
Camy Leung
2017
Doctor of Dental Medicine Candidate, Univ. of Sydney
Michael Nosella
2017
PDF , Univ. of Colorado, Bolder
Michael Cheng
2015
PhD student, Univ. of Toronto
Christine Liu
2009
Research Associate - Univ. of Toronto
Eric Chiang
2009
Hao Chen
2008
Amelia Walsh
2007
Doctors without Borders
Susan Chen
2007
Alex Chang
2006
Daniel Yokom
2006
U. Toronto Graduate program
Medical Oncologist - Mississauga, ON
Shifana Lalani
2006
Assistant Professor, Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine; Dalhousie Univ.
Angel Yu
2005
UBC Graduate Program
PDF - BC Cancer Research Agency
Soyun Kim
2004
SeeGene Inc, Korea
Elizabeth Ficko-Blean
2003
Researcher - CNRS, France
Frank Leung
2003
Medical School - Univ. of Hong Kong
Colleen Brown
2002
Graduate Studies - Univ of Toronto
Lori Passmore
2001
Prof - LMB Cambridge
Brian Yeh
2000
Prof - Michigan State Univ.
Jeffrey Lee
2000
Professor - Univ. of Toronto
Calvin Yip
1998
Professor - UBC
Cecelia Chiu
1998
Principal Scientist - Genentech, San Francisco, California, USA
Marilyn Andersen
1998
Research Assistant - Immunex Pharm.
Co-op and Summer Students
Shuran (Vivian) Mo
2023
BSc. Biochemistry - UBC
Chelsea Wenyonu
2023
BSc. Integrated Science in Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics - UBC
Jenna Goeres
2023
BSc. Biochemistry - UBC
Myles Ng
2022
Materials Scientist at Pantheon Design
Bahare Tamizi
2022
BSc. Biochemistry - UBC
Emily Chan
2021
Optometry
Yalda Safei
2020
Manager, Quality Control - Canvas Labs
Annika Golitz
2018
Graduate Studies - Univ. of Bern
Camy Leung
2017
Doctor of Dental Medicine Candidate, Univ. of Sydney
Harwood Kwan
2017
Research Pogrammer - BC Cancer Research
Anita Fong
2016
Senior Process Development Associate
Jacob Coleman
2016
Genetic Counselling - UBC
Michael Nosella
2016
PhD, Univ. of Toronto
Michael Cheng
2015
BSc Biochemistry - UBC
Moritz Mischa Pfleiderer
2015
PhD. Candidate - EMBL
Elena Zakarhova
2015
UBC Cancer
Christopher Grimm
2014
Sergio Souza
2014
James Ross
2012
Lawyer - Wozniak & Walker, Kamloops
Ivy Wang
2010
Meghan Berryman
2008
Shifana Lalani
2007
Assistant Professor - Dalhousie Univ.
Daniel Yokom
2006
Medical Onocolgy - Univ. of Toronto
Alex Chang
2006
Pheonomic, Inc
Susan Chen
2005
BSc Science - UBC
Benjamin Lai
2005
MD, PhD, FRCPC - Vancouver General Hospital
Frank Leung
2005
Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Angel Yu
2005
PDF - BC Cancer Research Agency, Vancouver, BC
Magnus McNab
2004
Family Medicine Practitioner - Victoria BC
Heidi Chan
2002
BSc - Simon Fraser Univ
Karen Leung
2002
BSc - UBC
Helen Oi-Ling Law
2002
Family Medicine - UBC
Colleen Brown
2002
Genetics Counseling - Univ. of Toronto;
Chris Petrus
2001
Research Technician - UBC
Alan Leung
2001
Graduate Studies - UC Berkeley
Carly Jensen
2000
Science World, Events Coordinator
Brian Yeh
2000
Radiation Oncologist, Assoc. Professor - Univ. of Michigan
Lori Passmore
2000
Assoc. Professor - LMB, Cambridge
Daniel Baxter
2000
Chief Radiologist and Asst.Professor - Univ. of Ottawa
Jeffrey Lee
1999
Assoc. Professor - Univ. of Toronto