OUR TEAM

  • Dr. Shraddha Pai, PhD

    PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
    SPai@oicr.on.ca

  • Nishka Kishore

    SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATE I

    Team molecular biology / tissue culture lead. Functional genomics.

  • Nikoo Ghafouri

    BSc CANDIDATE
    UofT Medical Biophysics Summer Student

    Inferring developmental origins of medulloblastoma using single-cell genomics

  • Jaskirat Singh Sandhu

    PhD CANDIDATE
    Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto

    Chemical screens to increase temozolomide sensitivity in glioblastoma & role of tumour microenvironment

Alumni

  • Ian Cheong

    MSc, Pai Lab 🥳
    Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto

    Human and mouse unipolar brush cells in the developing cerebellum and relevance to Group 4 medulloblastoma

  • Yuxi Yang

    PRACTICUM
    MHSc, Medical Genomics, University of Toronto

    Simulating gene knockdowns in human cerebellar development

  • Xinghan Sun

    PhD CANDIDATE
    Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto

    Enhancer mutations in medulloblastoma; single-cell DNA methylomes for improved tumour diagnostics

  • Hana Hajari

    Molecular biology/tissue culture co-op
    McMaster University

    CRISPRi of epigenetic regulators in Group 3 and 4 medulloblastoma

  • Leo Lau

    Computational biology co-op
    B.Engg., Biomedical Engineering
    University of Waterloo

    Single-cell genomics to find evolutionarily recent brain cell populations

  • Ellen Mak

    Molecular biology / cell culture co-op
    BSc. Chemical Biology
    McMaster University

    CRISPRi of epigenetic regulators in Group 3 medulloblastoma cell lines

    CURRENT: Degree in progress

  • Mingjie Zhao

    Computational biology co-op
    B.C.S. Data Science
    University of Waterloo

    Algorithm and software development for drug discovery pipeline

    CURRENT: Degree in progress

  • Soumya Menon

    Computational biology co-op
    B.Sc. Mathematical Physics
    University of Waterloo

    Enzymatic Methyl-Seq analytics pipeline development; biomarker discovery in treatment-resistant glioblastoma

    CURRENT: Degree in progress

  • Alex Chan

    Computational biology co-op
    B.Engg Biomedical Engineering
    University of Waterloo

    Algorithm development to infer gene regulatory networks from DNA methylomes and transcriptomes

    CURRENT: Degree in progress

  • Indy Ng

    Computational biology co-op
    B.Math Applied Mathematics
    University of Waterloo

    Interpretable machine learning from DNA methylomes from pediatric brain tumours

    CURRENT: Degree in progress

  • Rishabh Kohale

    Google Summer of Code 2021

    Developing visualization for systems-level annotation of genes

  • Lokesh Rana

    Google Summer of Code 2021

    Developing visualization for systems-level annotation of genes

  • Jennifer Yu

    Computational biology co-op
    University of Waterloo

    Developing a deep-learning based patient classifier using graph convolutional networks and multi-modal data integration

    CURRENT: Degree in progress

  • Alex Fricke

    Computational Biology co-op
    Alex Fricke
    B.Engg. Biomedical Engineering
    University of Waterloo

    Interpretable machine learning from medulloblastoma and ependymoma tumour methylomes

    CURRENT: Degree in progress