Team
Andrei Drabovich
Assistant Professor, Principal Investigator, Department of Lab Medicine and Pathology
Education: Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital (CIHR and NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellow, Translational Proteomics, 2014); York University (Ph.D. in Bioanalytical Chemistry, 2008); Belarusian State University (M.Sc. and B. Sc. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, 2003)
Zhiqiang Fu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Education: PhD, Dalian University of Technology (2017)
Lab Interests: Mass spectrometry and quantitative proteomics, and their applications in health and environmental toxicology studies
Yasmine Rais
Master's Student
Education: B.Sc. (Hons) in Biochemistry, University of Alberta (2019).
Lab Interests: After earning my bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from the University of Alberta, I entered the graduate school to explore my passion for scientific research. My current research project is focused on biomarker discovery for prostate cancer and immunoassay development.
Delaram Dara
Master's Student
Education: B.Sc. (Hons) in Human Biology and Physiology, University of Toronto (2019).
Lab Interests: I am interested in exploring the various uses of mass spectrometry to study the dynamics of cancer development and biomarker discovery. With this tool, we can assess the functionalities of various proteins which enable us to better understand the molecular pathways and to exploit these findings for enhancing cancer diagnosis and prognosis.
Mark McAllister
2020 Summer Student
Education: Doctor of Medicine, Class of 2023, University of Alberta
MSc, Physiology, Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Alberta
Regina Mendoza
2019 Undergraduate Summer Student
Education: Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology , University of Alberta