Khan Lab, Department of Pathology

University of Western Ontario

Created February 2008; Last updated March 01, 2011 [Z.Khan]

2009-

Emily Keats, MSc Student
Emily has completed her BSc from McGill University and joined the lab in Sept 2009. She is studying the role of vascular precursor cells in diabetic complications.

2009-

Rana Chakrabarti, Undergraduate BMSc Student
Rana is a fourth year undergraduate student at UWO (Department of Biochemistry; BMSc program). He is studying cell-cell interactions in infantile hemangioma pathogenesis.

2010-

Samah Rafehi, PhD Student
Samah completed her MSc from UWO in 2010 (Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology). She is studying the mechanisms of endothelial cell differentiation in infantile hemangioma.

2010-

Cassandra Welten, BMSc Pathology & Toxicology
Cassandra is a 4th year BMSc Honors Student. She is studying the role of stem cells in hemangioblastoma.

2010-

Andrew McDonald, Scholar's Elective Program/3303E
Andrew is carrying out his Individual Research Project for the Scholar's Elective Program. He is studying the mechanisms underlying the formation and maintenance of the blood brain barrier (BBB).

2011-

Nicole Park, MSc, Research Assistant
Nicole completed her MSc from  UWO (Pathology, 2010). She joined the lab in January 2011.  She is studying the phenotype of stem cells in breast cancer.

Zia A. Khan, PhD

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Alexandra Kleiman, MSc
Thesis: Mechanisms regulating hemangioma stem cell plasticity.

Megan Brockman; Scholar's Elective Program/3303E Research Project Project: Genetic basis of hemangioma formation.
 

Ruby Ambalavanar, Undergraduate Student/Volunteer
Co-supervisor: Dr. Mark Darling, Department of Pathology.
Project: Identification of potential genetic alterations in hemangiomas.
 

Elizabeth Roach, PC Shah Scholarship Student
Project: Mechanisms regulating spontaneous hemangioma regression.
 

Megan Brockman; Scholar's Elective Program/1020Y Research Project Project: Role of perivascular cells in hemangioma vessel maturation and regression.
 

James Yip, BMSc Honors/Path-Tox 4980E Thesis Project
Project: Mechanisms regulating adipocyte differentiation of hemangioma stem cells.
 

Angelica Ortiz, BMSc Honors/Path-Tox 4980E Thesis Project
Project: Diabetes-induced impairment of circulating vascular stem cells.