LAB MEMBERS
Lab MEMBERS
Mark Gillrie MD PhD
Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases Physician, and Lab Principal Investigator
Projects: Yes, he does experiments in the lab!
Rehan Mohammad
Post-Doctoral Associate 2022-
Co-supervised by Dr. S. Hirota
Projects: Advancing 3D models of human lungs - Snyder Organoid Initiative
Hellen Kang
MSc Graduate Student 2021-
Projects: Role of hypoxia regulators in bacterial pneumonia
Kelsie Volek
BME Honors Project 2021-
Project: Generating a high throughput lung on a chip to study fibroproliferative ARDS
Theo Nelson
BHSc Honors Project 2021-
Project: Integrating human alveolar macrophages into a human lung on a chip
Marian Grell
Undergraduate Summer Student 2023
Project: Impact of hypoxia on bacterial pneumonia
Past Members
Mortaza Fatehi Hassanabad
MSc Graduate Student 2020-2022
Co-supervised by Dr Bryan Yipp
Projects: Bacterial Pneumonia and Ventilator Induced Lung Injuryexpect another Post-doctoral Associate, Dr. Rehan Mohammad, to join the lab in Feb-Mar, 2022
Currently: Medical Student at Univ. of Alberta
Kristine Lee
Laboratory Technician
Part-time, 2020-2022
Expertise: Western Blot, ELISAs and Real-Time PCR
Collaborators
COVID-19 Lung Imaging Collaborative and BSL3 Team
Drs Paul Kubes, Chris Mody, Jennifer Corcoran, Craig Jenne, Margaret Kelly, Nathan Peters and Braedon McDonald
Lung Injury Collaboration
Drs Margaret Kelly, Matthias Amrein, David Proud, University of Calgary
Airway Inflammation Research Group
COVID-19 Clinical Trials Group
Dept Medicine, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Calgary
Drs Deepa Suryanarayan, Davinder Sidhu, Alejandra Ugarte-Torres,
Study Nurses: Traci Robinson and Suzanne Westcott