Team

Professor                                           

Dr. Sarah Hedtrich

Associate Professor

email: sarah.hedtrich@ubc.ca, phone: 604-822-2466

office: 6617

Short CV

For info about our lab at the Berlin Institute of Health @Charité University Hospital in Berlin, Germany, visit: https://www.bihealth.org/en/research/research-group/translational-organ-models

 

Research Assistant

Dr. Selina Rahman Shanta

Lab Manager & Research Assistant (on maternity leave)

Email: selina.shanta@ubc.ca

 

 

Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr. Tiffany Carlaw

Topic: Improving the efficacy of lung delivery of gene editors through optimized lipid
nanoparticle formulations to repair cystic fibrosis-associated mutations in human lungs.

email: tiffany.carlaw@ubc.ca

 

Graduate Students

Zheng Tan, PhD student

Topic: Establishment of organ co-cultures using organ-on-a-chip technology.

email: ztan@alumni.ubc.ca

 

 

Belal Tafech, MSc

PhD student

Topic: Transmucosal-nanoparticle interactions & gene delivery in lung disease

email: belal.tafech@ubc.ca

 

Vincent Halim (co-supervised with Dr. Eric Jan, UBC)

MSc Student

Topic: Cell-specific mRNA design yielding highly efficient and safe gene editing in human epithelia.

Email: vhalim@student.ubc.ca

 

Undergraduate Students

David Semashko

Topic: Assessing the impact of sgRNA design on gene editing efficacies in human epithelia.

 

 

 

 

 

Alumni

Juliana Bolsoni

Dr. Rawan Charbaji

Dr. Patrick Graff

Dr. Anne Eichhorst

Dr. Marijana Jevtic

Dr. Estefania Campos

Dr. Anna Loewa

Dr. Katharina Hoerst

Dr. Guy Yealland

Dr. Nada Charbaji

Dr. Leonie Verheyen (née Wallmeyer)

Dr. Stefan Hönzke

Dr. Madeleine Witting

Dr. Kay Strüver

Dr. Katja Fuchs (née Obst)

Aaroh Anand Joshi, MSc

Tarada Tripetchr, MSc

Morris Baumgardt, BSc

Natascha Eger, MSc

Ana Rita Falcao, MSc

Conrad Heilmann, MSc