People

Group of people

Principal investigator

Anne-Claude Gingras

Anne-Claude Gingras

Principal investigator

gingras@lunenfeld.ca

Staff

Karen Colwill

Karen Colwill

Manager, NBCC

colwill@lunenfeld.ca
Geoffrey Hesketh

Geoffrey Hesketh

Scientific associate

hesketh@lunenfeld.ca
Rawan Kalloush

Rawan Kalloush

Lab manager

rkalloush@lunenfeld.ca
Brendon  Seale

Brendon Seale

Scientific associate

bseale@lunenfeld.ca
Cassandra Wong

Cassandra Wong

Mass spectrometry technician

cwong@lunenfeld.ca
Zhen-Yuan Lin

Zhen-Yuan Lin

Research technician

zlin@lunenfeld.ca
Bhavisha Rathod

Bhavisha Rathod

Research technician

bkhatri@lunenfeld.ca
Rod Hardy

Rod Hardy

CoVaRR-Net research associate

whardy@lunenfeld.ca
Queenie Hu

Queenie Hu

Research associate

qhu@lunenfeld.ca
Laurie Seifried

Laurie Seifried

CoVaRR-Net pillar coordinator

lseifried@lunenfeld.ca
Freda Qi

Freda Qi

Bioinformatics specialist

fqi@lunenfeld.ca
Vinitha Macwan

Vinitha Macwan

Reseach Technician

vmacwan@lunenfeld.ca
Varun Anipindi

Varun Anipindi

Project Manager

vanipindi@lunenfeld.ca
Frank Liu

Frank Liu

Programmer

gliu@lunenfeld.ca
Jian-Ping Zhang

Jian-Ping Zhang

Programmer

jpzhang@lunenfeld.ca
Bob Liu

Bob Liu

Programmer

boliu@lunenfeld.ca

Postdoctoral fellow

Ugo Dionne

Ugo Dionne

Postdoctoral fellow

udionne@lunenfeld.ca
Calvin Chan

Calvin Chan

Postdoctoral fellow

calvinchan@lunenfeld.ca
Rasha Al Mismar

Rasha Al Mismar

Postdoctoral fellow

ralmismar@lunenfeld.ca
Reuben Samson

Reuben Samson

Postdoctoral fellow

rsamson@lunenfeld.ca

Student

Boris Dyakov

Boris Dyakov

Graduate student

bdyakov@lunenfeld.ca
Shimon Rosenthal

Shimon Rosenthal

Graduate student

shimon.rosenthal@mail.utoronto.ca
Francesco Zangari

Francesco Zangari

Graduate student

fzangari@lunenfeld.ca
Julia Kitaygorodsky

Julia Kitaygorodsky

Graduate student

jkitaygorodsky@lunenfeld.ca
Bilan Mohamed

Bilan Mohamed

Graduate student

bmohamed@lunenfeld.ca
Saya Sedighi

Saya Sedighi

Graduate student

saya.sedighi@lunenfeld.ca
Vesal Kasmaeifar

Vesal Kasmaeifar

Graduate student

vesal.kasmaeifar@mail.utoronto.ca
Kosar Vafaee

Kosar Vafaee

Graduate Student

kosar.vafaee@mail.utoronto.ca
Shuyue Guo

Shuyue Guo

Graduate Student

sguo@lunenfeld.ca
Agnes Hong

Agnes Hong

Graduate Student

ahong@lunenfeld.ca

Lab photos

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LTRI Retreat 2025
LTRI Retreat, 2025.
Christmas party, 2024
Christmas party, 2024.
LTRI Retreat 2023
LTRI Retreat, 2023.
Cherry Picking 2023
Cherry Picking, 2023.
Center Island 2023
Center Island, 2023.
Staff appreciation day, 2018
Staff appreciation day, 2018.
Christmas party, 2018
Christmas party, 2018.

Alumni

Two people, one standing in front of the other
  • Alexandra Kurtesi, Student research assistant
  • Amanda Veri, Co-Op Student
    Current position: Lead, Research Training Programs, UHN
  • Amber Couzens, Postdoctoral Fellow
    Current position: Research Scientist, Rapid Novor Inc
  • Aparna Srinivasan, Graduate Student
  • Beatriz Gonzalez-Badillo, Technician
  • Benjamin Piette, PhD Student
  • Brett Larsen, Mass spectrometry coordinator
  • Chris Go, PhD Student
    Current position: Medical Writer, INVIVO
  • Claire Martin, Postdoctoral fellow
  • Debbie (Seo Jung) Hong, Technician
    Current position: PhD Student, Columbia University
  • Dushyandi Rajendran, Lab Manager
    Current position: Global Study Associate, AstraZeneca
  • Geneviève Mailhot, Research technician
  • Ginny Chen, PhD Student
    Current position: Lead Consultant, Head of Intellectual Property, Inventya Ltd
  • Hala Abdouni, Technician
    Current position: Research Associate II, Avectas
  • Irene Trinh, Postdoctoral Fellow
    Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto
  • James Knight, Bioinformatician
  • Jayco Cheng, Summer student
  • Jean-Philippe Lambert, Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Ji-Young Youn, Postdoctoral Fellow
    Current position: Scientist, SickKids
  • Jonathan Roth, Graduate Student
  • Joshua Sandor, Student Research Assistant
  • Kento Abe, Postdoctoral fellow
  • Kyle Belozerov, Postdoctoral Fellow
    Current position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, York University
  • Laura McGary, Research Technician II
  • Linda McBroom-Cerajewski, Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Lisa D'Ambrosio, Masters Student
    Current position: Replacement Professor, University of Ottawa
  • Mahya Fazel-Zarandi, Student Research Assistant
    Current position: Undergraduate Student, Princeton University
  • Marilyn Goudreault, Lab Manager
    Current position: Lab Manager and Research Associate, Smith Lab, IRIC
  • Meghan McFadden, MS Technician
    Current position: Senior Research Associate (Proteomics) Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research, University of Toronto
  • Melanie Delgado-Brand, Research technician
  • Michael Mullin, Postdoctoral Fellow
    Current position: Scientific Leader and Associate Fellow, GSK, UK
  • Michelle Kean, PhD Student
    Current position: Associate Director of Medical and Scientific Strategy, BluPrint Oncology
  • Monica Dayam, Research Associate
  • Monika Tucholska, MS Technician
    Current position: Scientist, Sanofi Pasteur Analytical Research and Development
  • Nicolas Grinberg, Graduate Student
  • Nicole St-Denis, Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Payman Samavarchi Tehrani, Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Raktan Ahmed, Graduate Student
  • Sally Tisayakorn, Masters Student
    Current position: Pharmaceutical industry
  • Shen Zhang, Postdoctoral Fellow
    Current position: Research Investigator and Director, Proteomics Platform, Research Department of Reproductive and Genetic Hospital CITIC-XIANGYA
  • Stefan Karl Maier, Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Tina Papazotos, Co-Op Student
    Current position: PhD Student, Concordia University
  • Tulunay Tursun, Research technician
  • Wade Dunham, Masters Student, Technician and Lab Manager
    Current position: Quality Control, Crofter's Organic
  • Yiwang Zhou, Masters Student
    Current position: Biostatistics, University of Michigan