Professor
Dr. Sarah Hedtrich
Tier I Canada Research Chair in Human Disease Models
Associate Professor
email: sarah.hedtrich@ubc.ca, phone: 604-822-2466
office: 6617
For info about our lab at the Berlin Institute of Health @Charité University Hospital in Berlin, Germany, visit: https://www.bihealth.org/en/research/research-group/translational-organ-models
Research Assistant
Dr. Selina Rahman Shanta
Lab Manager & Research Assistant
Email: selina.shanta@ubc.ca
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Tiffany Carlaw
Topic: Improving the efficacy of lung delivery of gene editors through optimized lipid
nanoparticle formulations to repair cystic fibrosis-associated mutations in human lungs.
email: tiffany.carlaw@ubc.ca
Dr. Zheng Tan
Topic: Establishment of organ co-cultures using organ-on-a-chip technology.
email: zheng.tan@ubc.ca
Graduate Students
Vincent Halim (co-supervised with Dr. Eric Jan, UBC)
PhD Student
Topic: Cell-specific mRNA design yielding highly efficient and safe gene editing in human epithelia.
Email: vhalim@student.ubc.ca
Julia Brown
MSc Student
Topic: In situ correction of monogenic skin diseases
Email: julia.brown@ubc.ca
Undergraduate Students
Alumni
Dr. Belal Tafech
Juliana Bolsoni
Dr. Rawan Charbaji
Dr. Patrick Graff
Dr. Anne Eichhorst
Dr. Marijana Jevtic
Dr. Estefania Campos
Dr. Anna Loewa
Dr. Katharina Hoerst
Dr. Guy Yealland
Dr. Nada Charbaji
Dr. Leonie Verheyen (née Wallmeyer)
Dr. Stefan Hönzke
Dr. Madeleine Witting
Dr. Kay Strüver
Dr. Katja Fuchs (née Obst)
Aaroh Anand Joshi, MSc
Tarada Tripetchr, MSc
Morris Baumgardt, BSc
Natascha Eger, MSc
Ana Rita Falcao, MSc
Conrad Heilmann, MSc