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The Public Scholars Initiative is designed to support UBC doctoral students as they strive for purposeful social contribution, produce new and creative forms of scholarship and dissertations, and explore diverse career pathways.
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Available Research Projects
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First name | Research Interests | Desired start dates: | Project areas |
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| Li | Shyh-Dar | Drug discovery, design and delivery; Nano-technology; biopharmaceutics; drug delivery; nanomedicine; pharmaceutics; Gene delivery and therapy | Any time / year round |
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| Levings | Megan | Immunology; Cell therapy; Immune tolerance; Transplantation; Autoimmunity; Gene Therapy; Regulatory T cells | 2023 |
Various projects related to regulatory T cell therapy biology and clinical applications |
| Lester | Richard | Infectious diseases; Digital health; Mobile health (mHealth); Precision Public Health; Patient-centered care; Global Health | Any time / year round |
Global digital health for patient engagement in care and virtual care. Work in Canada, Africa and globally. Quantitative and qualitative studies, implementation research, data science, and digital health policy and ethics. Especially among scaling interventions to benefit vulnerable populations and health equity. |
| Leavitt | Blair | Genetic medicine; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Alzheimer's disease; Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis; Ataxia; Dementia; Experimental Therapeutics; Frontotemporal Dementia; Gene regulation; Gene Silencing and Gene Editing; Gene Therapy; Huntington disease; Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells; Medical Genetics; Mouse models of disease; Neurodegenerative diseases; Neurogenetics |
Mouse models of neurodegenerative diseases |
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| Lazrak | Ali | Finance and Accounting; Economic Phenomena on an Individual or Organizational Level; Asset pricing, Corporate Finance, Behavioral Finance, Household portfolio choice |
Different research projects in the finance area are available |
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| Laronde | Denise | Cancer; oral cancer screening; malignant transformation; early detection; oral premalignant lesions |
oral cancer screening early detection markers of progression |
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| Lange | Philipp | Bioinformatics; Genomics; Pathology (except oral pathology); Cell Signaling and Cancer; mass spectrometry; pediatric cancer; personalized medicine; post translational protein modification; Proteomics | Any time / year round |
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| Lamers | Yvonne | Human nutrition and dietetics; Nutrition; Nutrients; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Breast Feeding and Infant Nutrition; Clinical Chemistry; Maternal and child health; Micronutrients; Newborn Screening; Nutritional Biochemistry; Nutritional Biomarker; Periconceptional folic acid supplementation; Pregnancy; Prenatal Supplements; Toddler Nutrition; Vitamins | Any time / year round |
My enthusiasm for research draws from my interest in the biochemistry and physiology of nutrition-related diseases and in targeted and population-based strategies of chronic disease prevention and optimal health promotion. My research focuses on micronutrients and specifically B-vitamins and their kinetics and functions in human metabolism. B-vitamins are required for normal cell growth and... Read More |
| Lallous | Nada | Cancer drug development and therapeutics; Cancer progression and metastasis; Cancer molecular targets; Biochemistry; Biophysics; Cancer biology; Therapeutics; Protein research; Drug resistance; transcription factors | 2021 |
Expression, purification and biophysical characterization of various prostate cancer targets. |
| Lalji | Fawziah | Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Pharmacoepidemiology; Infectious diseases; Immunization; Antibiotics and Resistance; Vaccine preventable diseases | 2024 |
Understanding the quality of antibiotic prescribing to migrants in two Canadian provinces (British Columbia and Ontario) for common infections Antibiotics are very important medications that are used a lot in Canada. These medicines help stop infections caused by bacteria. However, antibiotic treatment can lead to superbugs, which then go on to become more common in our... Read More |
| Laksman | Zachary | Any time / year round, 2023 |
Development of iPSC-based tissue models to study and model contributions of genetics to heart disease. You will be mentored in tissue engineering, microscopy, cardiac electrophysiology, and more. |
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| Lagresa-González | Elizabeth | Humanities and the arts; Early modern Literature and Culture; Early modern Theater; Early modern Visual and Material culture; Queer, Gender and Sexuality studies; Cross-cultural and Comparative studies | Any time / year round |
Early modern Spanish literature and culture. Transatlantic Studies. Mediterranean Studies. Spanish theatre. |
| Laffin | Christina | Humanities and the arts; premodern Japanese literature; medieval Japanese history; women's writing; Japanese women's history; travel writing; autobiography; Japanese poetry; Literacy; socialization; wet nursing; narratology | Any time / year round |
Heian and Kamakura-era literature, late Heian and medieval women's history |
| Kwakkel | Erik | Archival, repository and related studies; Library science and information studies; Codicology; History of Libraries; History of the Book; Medieval Manuscripts; Paleography; History of Reading | 2025 |
Manuscript studies; History of the Book; History of Reading; History of Libraries; Materiality of Information (Book Design); Digital Humanities where it intersects with the History of the Book. |
| Kuo | Calvin | Biomechanical engineering; Medical devices; Biomedical instrumentation (including diagnostics); Sensing human motion; How humans make sense of their own motion; Sensorimotor Neutrophysiology; Wearable Sensing; Musculoskeletal Modeling |
Cardiac arrest sensing and emergency response. |
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| Kubota | Ryuko | Specialized studies in education; critical applied linguistics; culture and language; Language Rights and Policies; language education; language ideologies; multicultural education; race and language teaching | Any time / year round |
Antiracist and justice-oriented language education |
| Kronstad | James | Bioinformatics; Immunology; Microbiology; Plant biology; Mycology; Fungal diseases of plants; Genomics and Proteomics; Medical Mycology; Molecular Genetics; Pathogenesis of infectious diseases; Plant-Microbe Interactions | Any time / year round |
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| Kontogiorgos | Vasileios | Food colloids, gels, foam and emulsions; Food chemistry (including fermentation); Food rheology, food texture and sensory evaluation; Nutraceuticals, functional foods and bioactive; food chemistry; Physical chemistry of foods; Food colloids; Food emulsions; Food polysaccharides; food proteins | Any time / year round |
Food colloids Food rheology Food emulsions Food polysaccharides Plant proteins for food |
| Klonsky | Elisha | Clinical psychology; Suicide (theory, motivations, transition from suicidal thoughts to attempts); emotion; personality. | 2022 |
The lab's primary focus is suicide (including theory, motivations, warning signs, improved measurement of key risk and protective factors). Secondary lab interesets include classification and assessment of emotion and personality. |
| Klein Geltink | Ramon | Pathology (except oral pathology); Metabolism; Immunotherapy; Cell Signaling and Infectious and Immune Diseases; Auto-Immune Diseases; Cell Therapy of Cancer; Adoptive cellular therapy; Immunometabolism; T cell function | Any time / year round |
My research program at UBC/BCCHRI aims to better understand how the immune system can be used to treat childhood diseases. In children with cancer, the immune system is no longer able to rid the body of cancerous cells. In children with autoimmune diseases the immune system gets rid of healthy cells of the body. We are particularly interested in the metabolism of immune cells. Cellular... Read More |
| Klein | Peter | Media Types (Radio, Television, Written Press, etc.); Video and New Media; Global Health and Emerging Diseases; Large International Projects; Media and Democratization; Global Journalism; Innovation in Journalism; Documentary Production; Investigative Reporting | Any time / year round |
Investigative reporting on global supply chains |
| Kennedy | Emily | Sociology; Environment and Society; Social and Cultural Factors of Environmental Protection; Gender; social class; Sustainable consumption | 2023 |
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| Keenan | Harper | Curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; Gender, sexuality and education; Inter-disciplinary, trans-disciplinary learning and education; Colonialism; early childhood and elementary education; Educational Context; Gender; race; sexuality; teacher education; childhood; Transgender Studies; LGBT Studies; queer studies | 2023 |
I am currently working on projects in multiple areas: - Gender self-determination in early childhood and elementary education - Trans pedagogy as practiced by trans educators outside formal schooling environments - The experiences of transgender workers in PK-12 schools I am most interested in working with students whose scholarship would contribute to or expand... Read More |
| Kassam | Rosemin | Medical, health and life sciences; Child Health, Malnutrition, Adult Chronic Disease, Geriatrics | Any time / year round |
Global Health - Improving child malnutrition in low-resource countries |
| Karsan | Aly | Hematological tumours; Cancer molecular targets; Leukemia; Hematopoiesis; Genomics and epigenomics; Noncoding RNAs; Aging | Any time / year round |
The major research focus of my lab revolves around acute myeloid leukemia, and preleukemias referred to as myelodysplastic syndromes. Within this context we are interested in various posttranscriptional mechanisms that drive these cancers, how aging increases the risk of developing leukemias, and how to potentially target genomic and epigenomic vulnerabilities. |
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