Charlotte Tykjaer-Jorgensen has joined me from
Copenhagen for a portion of her PhD
studies. She is employing Nanostring technology to study the gene expression
profile of clinical trial tissue specimens from the Danish Breast Cancer Group,
co-supervised by Dr. Bent Ejlertsen and Eva Balslev.
Jennifer Ji is an undergraduate co-op student who has caught the sarcoma
research bug, and is busy developing a new research project on clear cell
sarcoma.
ALUMNI
Hongwei Cheng was my research associate for several
years, in charge of experimental therapeutics and cancer model development.
He returned to China to develop a private sector contracting firm offering
this technology in support of their biotech industry.
Marina Pacheco trained with me in 2009 and 2010 under the auspices
of the
CIHR training program
in molecular oncological pathology, returning to Panama to take up
a position as the first molecular pathologist at the National Oncology
Institute of Panama.
Hassan Huwait (2009) and
Rola Ali (2010) completed
bone and soft tissue pathology subspecialty fellowships with me and will
return to their home countries of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, respectively
as some of their nation's first subspecialists in this challenging diagnostic
field.
Jefferson Terry, PhD student and resident research fellow
(2003-2010) completed a fellowship in
pediatric
pathology at Children's Hospital Boston and then took up a staff
position in Hamilton, Ontario, affiliated with
McMaster University.
Dave Voduc, clinician-scientist fellow (2005-2009)
has a faculty position in
radiation
oncology at the BC Cancer Agency, and continues to collaborate
with me in breast cancer research.
Erika Mehl (GPEC
senior technologist 2005-2009),
Krista
Marcon(GPEC junior technologist, 2007-2009), and
Tracy
Tan, sarcoma junior technologist (2008-2009) all went on to
medical school at UBC.
Maggie Cheang, PhD student
(2004-2008) won a major postdoctoral fellowship to study in the laboratory
of
Chuck Perou at
UNC-Chapel Hill.
Joanna Lubieniecka, postdoctoral fellow (2004-2008)
became a research associate at
the
iCORD centre.
Anne Nguyen, MSc
(2007) became a clinical research assistant and then a student in the
UBC MD program.
Sonja Steigen, sabbatical
fellow / PhD student (2005-2006), completed her thesis and now a faculty
position as a clinician-scientist pathologist at the
University Hospital of Northern Norway.
Wanda Kwan, junior
technologist (2004-2005) moved on to
PhD
studies at UCSF.
Last but not least, I should also mention the other really
great people I work with who can also be considered either my employees
or "trainees" in various ways:
the
Genetic Pathology Evaluation Centre team (where most of my breast
cancer research, in particular, gets done!), the residents in the
UBC
Anatomical Pathology program, and
the students
in the UBC combined MD/PhD training program.
