Meet the Team

  • Omid Haji-Ghassemi, PhD

    Principal Investigator

    Assistant Professor
    Department of Biological Sciences
    University of Calgary
    Libin Cardiovascular Institute
    Arnie Charbonneau Cancer Institute

Graduate Students

  • Dianny Pérez Rodríguez

    MSc. Student

  • Michael Schieman

    MSc. Student

  • Rachi Panchal

    PhD Student

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  • Eliany Arias del Rio

    MSc. Student

  • Jakob Gorodetsky

    PhD Student

Undergraduate Students

  • Louie Kochanski

    Honours Student

Post-Docs

Former Lab Members

  • Megan Torres (2023 - 2024, co-supervised with Dr. Matt Vijayan) - (now a government scientist)

  • Joshua Steward (2022 - 2025) - MSc Student

  • Alec (Oleg) Khassan (2022-2025) - MSc student (now a PhD student at the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI)

Graduate Students

Undergraduate Students

  • Irfan Popal (2025 - 2026) - Honours Student (NSERC summer award)

  • Josie Sharpe (2025 - 2026) - Honours Student (PURE summer award)

  • Santiago Pineros (2025 - 2026) - Honours Student

  • Nirmal Cheema (2024 - 2025) - Honours Student (now UofA medical student)

  • Julia Kawasch-Mohareb (2024 - 2025) Honours Student

  • Nicole Hansed (2023 - 2024) - Honours Student

  • Chase Talarico (2023 - 2024) - Honours Student - Now a UBC graduate student (Yip lab)

  • Isabel Zhao (2023 - 2024) - Summer NSERC student