BHATIA PROGRAM
McMaster University
Training and Developing Great Scientists Across the Globe
MASTER STUDENT ALUMNI
DOCTORAL ALUMNI
2018 - 2021
GENA MARKOUS
Project: Development of a Surrogate In Vitro System to Define Initiating Events of MDS And Transition to AML Disease
2018 - 2020
YEONJOON KIM
Project: Optimization of a genome-wide screen for AML relapse genes
2017 - 2019
DIANA GOLUBEVA
Project: Modelling acute myeloid leukemia heterogeneity in vitro using induced pluripotent stem cells
2010 - 2012
LINDA RODRIGUEZ
Project: Investigated the direct conversion of human skin fibroblast cells to blood progenitor cells
Current Position: Field application scientist at Thermo Fisher Scientific
2010 - 2012
RYAN MITCHELL
Project: Altering human cell fate with the transcription factor OCT4
Current Position: Business Development Strategy Analyst at Satellos Bioscience Inc
2010 - 2012
STEVEN DINGWALL
Project: Neoplastic human embryonic stem cells as a model of radiation resistance of human cancer stem cells
2001 - 2002
BARBARA MURDOCH
Current position: PhD candidate, University of British Columbia
2010 - 2015
DR. ALLISON BOYD
Project: Selective targeting of acute myeloid leukemia stem cells through the bone marrow microenvironment
Current Position: Research Associate, Bhatia Program, McMaster
2012 - 2015
DR. RYAN MITCHELL
Project: Altering human cell fate with the transcription factor OCT4
Current Position: Business Development Strategy Analyst at Satellos Bioscience Inc
2010 - 2011
DR. SUSAN RAHMIG
Current Position: PDF, Sweden
2008 -2010
DR. CHELSEA MAEDLER
Project: Clinical banking of human acute myeloid leukemia tissue
Current Position: Physician
2006 - 2012
DR. CLINTON CAMPBELL
Project: The role of the in vivo microenvironment in human stem cell fate decisions
Current Position: Hematopathologist, Hamilton Health Sciences & Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, McMaster University
2004 - 2008
DR. MORAG STEWART
Project: Functional heterogeneity within human embryonic stem cells cultures
2003 - 2008
DR. SEAN BENDALL
Project: Proteomic analysis of human pluripotent stem cell regulation and fate
Current Position: Department of Pathology, Stanford University, CA
2002 - 2006
DR. JENNIFER TROWBRIDGE
Current position: PDF, Dana-Farber, MA
2002 - 2006
DR. FARBOD SHOJAEI
Current Position: Genentech, San Francisco, CA
1999 - 2001
DR. GAURAV BHARDWAJ
Current Position: Medical School, University of Toronto, ON
POST DOCTORATE ALUMNI
1998 - 2004
DR. KAREN JAY
Current Position: Patent law, Chicago, IL
1998 - 2003
DR. MIKE ROSU-MYLES
Current Position: Junior Scientist, Health Canada’s Biologics and Therapeutics Directorate, Ottawa, ON
1998 - 2004
DR. FRANCIS KARANU
Current Position: Research Scientist, Cellular Therapeutics, Johnson & Johnson
1998 - 1999
DR. CHRISTIAN AWARAJI
Current Position: Scientist , Israel
1998 - 1999
DR. ALLISON HUBEL
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, MN
2001 - 2005
DR. LI LI
Current Position: Research Associate, University of Ottawa, ON
2001 - 2005
DR. LISHENG WANG
Current Position: Scientist and Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa, ON
1999 - 2003
DR. DAVID HESS
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario, London, ON
2004 - 2005
DR. JUNYUAN QI
Current Position: Physician, Chian
2002 - 2005
DR. PABLO MENENDEZ
Current position: Research Professor and Research Director of The Josep Carreras Leukemia Research Institute, in Barcelona, Spain
2002 - 2004
DR. YUFEI LOU
Current Position: Scientist and Principal Investigator, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, QC
2004 - 2008
DR. KAUSALIA VIJAYARAGAVAN
Project: Role of non-canonical Wnt signalling in human pluripotent stem cells
Current Position: Principal Investigator, Laval, QC
2004 - 2007
DR. JIABI YANG
Current Position: Technician, Robarts Research Institute, London, ON
2004 - 2006
DR. KATHY XU
Current Position: Research Associate, Robarts Research Institute, London, ON
2005 - 2007
DR. BONAN ZHONG
Current Position: Research Associate, Seattle, WA
2004 - 2009
DR. JUNFENG JI
Project: Role of HOX genes in human pluripotent stem cell regulation
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Zhejiang University, Shanghai, China
2004 - 2008
DR. MARC BOSSÉ
Project: Role of micro RNAs in human pluripotent stem cell development
Current Position: Chief Scientific Director, Celldex
2006 - 2010
DR. SEOK-HO HONG
Project: Priming of lineage programs of human pluripotent stem cells
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Kangwon National University, South Korea
2005 - 2010
DR. TAMRA OGILVIE
Project: Development of cancer stem cell models from human pluripotent stem cells
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Manitoba, MB
2005 - 2008
DR. VERONICA RAMOS-MEJIA
Project: Role of hedgehog signalling in human stem cells
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Granada, Spain
2008 - 2009
DR. NAZNIN SULTANA
Porject: Role of notch signalling in development related to human pluripotent stem cells
Current Position: Research technician, McMaster University, ON
DR. JUNGBOK LEE
Project: Role of notch in hematopoietic differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells
2007 - 2011
DR. RUTH RISUENO
Project: Identification of cancer stem cell therapy in leukemia
Current Position: Principal Investigator, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain
2008 - 2011
DR. SHRAVANTI RAMPALLI
Project: Epigenetic control of human pluripotent stem cell bivalency
Current Position: Principal Investigator, inStem, Bangalore, India
2008 - 2009
DR. DONGCHENG WU
Project: Novel chemical screening methods for human pluripotent stem cells
Current position: PDF, China
2008 - 2009
DR. KAKON NAG
Project: Novel notch targets in human pluripotent stem cells
Current Position: PDF, McMaster University, ON
2011 -2014
DR. RAHUL KUSHWAH
Project: Human stem cell-based immunotherapy
Current Position: CSO and Director, Anantlife Canada Inc
2010 - 2013
DR. BRENDAN MCINTYRE
Project: Development of lung epithelial cells from human pluripotent stem cells
Current Position: Field Application Scientist at Bio-Techne
2008 - 2016
DR. JONG-HEE LEE
Project: Development of direct reprogramming technologies
Current Position: Senior Scientist, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology
2012 - 2018
DR. BORKO TANASIJEVIC
Project: Transcriptional regulations of directed differentiation
Current Position: Scientisit II at BlueRock Therapeutics
2012 - 2014
DR. SHUAI WANG
Project: High throughput methods for human pluripotent stem cell differentiation screens
Current Position: Assistant Professor, ShenZhen University, China
2011 - 2015
DR. FANNY CASADO
Project: Role of aryl hydrocarbon receptors in human stem cell regulation
Current position: Principal Investigator, Omics and Applied Biotechnology Institute, University of Peru
2015 - 2017
DR. RYAN MITCHELL
Project: Target identification of cancer stem cell selective small molecules
Current Position: Business Development Strategy Analyst, Satellos Bioscience Inc.
2012 - 2017
DR. YANNICK BENOIT
Project: Epigenetic regulation of human cancer stem cells
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa, ON
2014 - 2017
DR. SALEEMULLA MAHAMMAD
Project: Establishing induced pluripotent stem cell derived sensory neurons to study diabetic neuropathy and analyzing potential chemical compounds to restore neuronal function in diabetic neuropathy induced sensory neurons
Current Position: Research Associate at Turnstone Biologics
2016 - 2017
WENDY YE
Project: Development of an in vitro relapse model for identification of novel therapeutics in acute myeloid leukemia
2014 - 2016
Project: Uncovering chemical substitutes for induced plasticity
2018 - 2020
DR. KINGA VOJNITS
Project: High throughput screening of chemical compounds on pluripotent stem cells to identify novel drugs
Current Position: Research associate in Dr. Sepideh Pakpour's lab at UBC
2013 - 2019
DR. MIO NAKANISHI
Project: Human pluripotent stem cell niche regulation via non-canonical Wnt
Current Position: Lecturer, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Japan
2017 - 2019
DR. LILI ASLOSTOVAR
Project: The role of regenerating bone marrow niche in promoting leukemic relapse
Current Position: Development Scientist, GE Healthcare
2014 - 2020
DR. JENNIFER REID
Project: Human Stem Cell Models Identify Targets of Healthy and Malignant Hematopoietic Regulation
2011 - 2015
DR. LILI ASLOSTOVAR
Project: Therapeutic targeting of human leukemic stem cells via dopamine receptor antagonist Thioridazine in combination with chemotherapy
Current Position: Development Scientist, GE Healthcare
2010 - 2015
DR. KYLE SALCI
Project: Generation of healthy autologous sources of blood from AML patients through cellular reprogramming
Current position: Medical Science Liaison, Lymphoid Hematology at Janssen Inc.
2011 - 2013
RAMI MECHAEL
Project: Mechanism of blood maturation induced by hedgehog inhibition in pluripotent sources
Current Position: Sales Executive at 10x Genomics
2011 - 2013
SARAH LARONDE
Project: Differential pluripotent regulation dependent upon defined factors in human pluripotent stem cells
Current Position: Senior Research Associate at BlueRock Therapeutics