
Principal Investigators
Principal investigators








Associate member (Pharmacology, Health, Biotherapeutics, Bioassay, Genomics)

Viral signaling, intracellular trafficking


Miroslava Cuperlovic-Culf
Associate member (Computational biology, bioinformatics, metabolomics, systems biology, applied data mining, machine learning, NMR spectroscopy)

Damien D'Amours
Chromosome structure, regulation of cell division, DNA repair, chromatin remodeling, cancer biology, model systems







Peptite design, AI-driven drug development and protein engineering

Mary-Ellen Harper
Mitochondrial bioenergetics and uncoupling, glutathione redox, diabetes, obesity, cardiomyopathies

Associate member (Proteomics, cell surface proteins, biotherapeutic characterization and development)


Anna Jezierski
Associate member (Stem cell differentiation, blood brain barrier, 3D bioprinting, engineered cell-based therapies, rare diseases)





Associate member (Microphysiological systems, organ-on-chip models, 3D bioprinting, biomaterials)

Scott McComb
Associate member (Cancer immunotherapy discovery, high-throughput functional immune assays, CAR-T therapies, multi-specific antibodies)




Erin Mulvihill
Lipid metabolism, intestinal biology, diabetes, cardiovascular biology, mouse genetics


Matthew Pamenter
Natural adaptations to hypoxia, comparative physiology, neurobiology, mitochondrial function

Izabella Pena
Metabolic and mitochondrial function in epilepsies and neurodegeneration, zebrafish models




Michael Rudnicki
Stem cells, myogenesis and muscle regeneration, muscular dystrophy, neuromuscular disease


Jagdeep Sandhu
Associate member (Parkinson鈥檚 disease, neuroinflammation, innate immunity, NLRP3 inflammasome, extracellular vesicles, therapeutics)


Xiaojian Shao
Associate member (Bioinformatics, machine learning and deep learning, DNA methylation, single cell genomics)

Associate member (Structural proteomics, mass spectrometry, antibody therapeutics)






