ImmunoT About Us

Alice Mui


Research Focus

  • Immune Cell Development and Function


Research Interests

Microfluidics, Lab-on-a-chip, Liquid Scanning Probes, Microscale Assays, Compartmentalization, Molecular Diagnostics, Multi-omic Tumour Profiling, Tumour Heterogeneity, Personalized Medicine

Anna Blakney


Research Focus

  • Lipid Nanoparticles Engineering and RNA Therapeutics


Research Interests

Microfluidics, Lab-on-a-chip, Liquid Scanning Probes, Microscale Assays, Compartmentalization, Molecular Diagnostics, Multi-omic Tumour Profiling, Tumour Heterogeneity, Personalized Medicine

Annie Ciernia


Research Focus

  • Neuroimmunology


Research Interests

Microfluidics, Lab-on-a-chip, Liquid Scanning Probes, Microscale Assays, Compartmentalization, Molecular Diagnostics, Multi-omic Tumour Profiling, Tumour Heterogeneity, Personalized Medicine

Carolina Tropini


Research Focus

  • Microbiome and Immune Modulation
  • Systems and Computational Bioligy


Research Interests

Microfluidics, Lab-on-a-chip, Liquid Scanning Probes, Microscale Assays, Compartmentalization, Molecular Diagnostics, Multi-omic Tumour Profiling, Tumour Heterogeneity, Personalized Medicine

Govind Kaigala


Research Focus

  • Lipid Nanoparticles Engineering and RNA Therapeutics


Research Interests

Microfluidics, Lab-on-a-chip, Liquid Scanning Probes, Microscale Assays, Compartmentalization, Molecular Diagnostics, Multi-omic Tumour Profiling, Tumour Heterogeneity, Personalized Medicine

Hongshen Ma


Research Focus

  • Systems and Computational Biology


Research Interests

Microfluidics, Lab-on-a-chip, Liquid Scanning Probes, Microscale Assays, Compartmentalization, Molecular Diagnostics, Multi-omic Tumour Profiling, Tumour Heterogeneity, Personalized Medicine

Horacio Bach


Research Focus

  • Host-Pathogen Interactions


Research Interests

Mycobacteria, Intracellular Infections, Inflammatory Diseases, Antibody Engineering, Antimicrobial Resistance, Nanoparticle Therapeutics

Jim Sun


Research Focus

  • Host-Pathogen Interactions


Research Interests

Infection and Immunity, Tuberculosis, Host-directed Therapy, Macrophages Biology, Bacterial Pathogenesis

Kelly McNagny


Research Focus

  • Immune Cell Development and Function


Research Interests

Infection and Immunity, Tuberculosis, Host-directed Therapy, Macrophages Biology, Bacterial Pathogenesis

Ken Harder


Research Focus

  • Cancer Immunology (Immuno-Oncology)
  • Immune Cell Based-Therapies
  • Lipid Nanoparticles Engineering and RNA Therapeutics


Research Interests

Antiviral immunity, Auto-Immune Diseases, Cancer, Cell Signaling, Gene Regulation and Expression, Genetics, Infectious Diseases, Inflammation, Innate immunity

Laura Evgin


Research Focus

  • Immune Cell Based Therapies


Research Interests

CarT Cells, Cancer Biotherapeutics, Cancer Immunotherapy, T Cell Engineering, Therapeutic Infections, Inflammation Resistance, Translational Oncology

Laura Sly


Research Focus

  • Immune Cell Development and Function

Research Interests

Childhood Cancer and Blood, Diabetes, Immunity in Health and Disease, Rare Diseases, Vaccines, Infections, Host Defenses

Lisa Osborne


Research Focus

  • Microbiome and Immune Modulation


Research Interests

Antiviral immunity, Germ Free Animals, Gut-brain Axis, Intestinal Epithelial Cells, Microbiome, Mucosal Immunology, Multibiome, Neurodegenerative Diseases

Maria Tokuyama


Research Focus

  • Cancer Immunology (Immuno-Oncology)


Research Interests

Antiviral immunity, Auto-Immune Diseases, Viral Immunology, Virome

Morgan Roberts


Research Focus

  • Cancer Immunology (Immuno-Oncology)


Research Interests

Bladder Cancer, Anti-cancer Immunity , Tumor Immunology, Innate Immunity, Cancer Therapeutics, Translational Immunology, Pre-clinical Therapeutics, Immune Signaling

Nika Shakiba


Research Focus

  • Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Engineering
  • Synthetic Biology


Research Interests

Stem cells, Synthetic biology, Engineered Cell Therapies, Pluripotency

Nozumu Yachie


Research Focus

  • Synthetic Biology


Research Interests

Stem cells, Synthetic biology, Engineered Cell Therapies, Pluripotency

Pauline Johnson


Research Focus

  • Immune Cell Development and Function


Research Interests

Cancer, Cell Adhesion Molecules, Immune Response Regulation, Inflammation, Innate Immunity

Peter Zandstra


Research Focus

  • Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Engineering


Research Interests

Cancer, Cell Adhesion Molecules, Immune Response Regulation, Inflammation, Innate Immunity

Phillip Domeier


Research Focus

  • Immune Cell Development and Function


Research Interests

Vaccines, Autoimmunity, Antibodies, Germinal Centers, Flow Cytometry, Fluorescent Microscopy

Pieter Cullis


Research Focus

  • Lipid Nanoparticles Engineering and RNA Therapeutics


Research Interests

Vaccines, Autoimmunity, Antibodies, Germinal Centers, Flow Cytometry, Fluorescent Microscopy

Simon Wisnovsky


Research Focus

  • Immune Cell Development and Function

Research Interests

Cell Surface Glycome, Glycosylation, Immune Regulation, Cancer, CRIPSR Screening, Cancer Therapeutics, Autoimmune Disease, Immune Recognition, Genomic Engineering

Yanpu He


Research Focus

  • Protein Engineering

Research Interests

Cell Surface Glycome, Glycosylation, Immune Regulation, Cancer, CRIPSR Screening, Cancer Therapeutics, Autoimmune Disease, Immune Recognition, Genomic Engineering

Yossef Av-Gay


Research Focus

  • Host-Pathogen Interactions

Research Interests

Tuberculosis, Host Pathogen Interactions, Mycobacterial Genetics, Intracellular Pathogens, Chronic Lung Disease, Immune Evasion, Translational Microbiology

Contact Information

General Inquiries:

immuno.therapeutics@ubc.ca

ImmunoE NSERC CREATE Program: immunoengineering.create@ubc.ca

6088 University Boulevard, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3

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