New Member Mini-Bios

Dr. Fahar MerchantPresident & CEOMedicenna TherapeuticsToronto, Canadawww.medicenna.com Dr. Fahar Merchant is a biotech veteran with 30 years of experience as a serial entrepreneur and co-founder, President and CEO of Medicenna Therapeutics Inc. Previously, he was President and CEO of Protox Therapeutics Inc. where he transitioned a pre-clinical start-up to a [READ MORE]

Jan Pencik, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Salk Institute for Biological Studies La Jolla, United States 2015 ICIS-Sidney & Joan Pestka Graduate Award Winner Jan Pencik is a NOMIS Center Postdoctoral Fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, US). Pencik is originally from Brno, Czech Republic. He obtained his [READ MORE]

Douglas Philip Dyer, Ph.D. Sir Henry Dale Fellow Wellcome Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, University of Manchester, UK Twitter: @tripledougdyer  Dr. Dyer undertook his Ph.D. research investigating how an anti-inflammatory protein functions by disrupting the interactions between chemokines and their extracellular matrix glycosaminoglycan binding partners. Supervised by Prof. Anthony Day, Dr. Caroline Milner and [READ MORE]

Hector Huerga Encabo, Ph.D. Post-doctoral Fellow Haematopoietic Stem Cell Laboratory The Francis Crick Institute London, United Kingdom Twitter: @DrHHEncabo and @TReNDinAfrica  Postdoctoral Fellow at The Francis Crick Institute (London, UK), he received the Kay Kendall Leukemia fellowship to develop his research in the Haematopoietic Stem Cell laboratory led by Dominique Bonnet. Hector performed his Ph.D. [READ MORE]

Olha Yaroshko Ph.D. Candidate and Graduate Research Assistant Institute of Cell Biology and Genetic Engineering NAS of Ukraine Kyiv, Ukraine  Olga Yaroshko is a Ph.D. student in Biotechnology at the Institute of Cell biology and Genetic Engineering, NAS, in Kyiv, Ukraine. The theme of her Ph.D. thesis is “Development of biotechnological approaches [READ MORE]

Jakob von Moltke, Ph.D. Assistant Professor University of Washington Department of Immunology Seattle, USA Twitter: @jakob_moltke Dr. von Moltke is an Assistant Professor in the Immunology Department at the University of Washington Medical School in Seattle. Dr. von Moltke graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Genetics, Cell and Developmental Biology from Dartmouth College and a [READ MORE]

Amanda Rae Mannino, MLS (ASCP)CM Ph.D. Candidate and Graduate Research Assistant UT Health San Antonio San Antonio, USA  Amanda Mannino’s research focuses on simian immunodeficiency virus, the nonhuman primate (NHP) analog of HIV, and its restriction in baboons. The mechanisms underlying baboon’s natural immunity against SIV remain unknown. Understanding the mechanisms behind some [READ MORE]

GuanQun ‘Leo’ Liu, Ph.D. Postdoc Fellow Cleveland Clinic Florida Research and Innovation Center Port St. Lucie, USA Twitter: @leonardliu88  Dr. GuanQun ‘Leo’ Liu is a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Michaela Gack at the Cleveland Clinic Florida Research and Innovation Center. He was trained as a molecular virologist with extensive research experience [READ MORE]

Michail Lionakis, MD, Sc.D. Chief, Fungal Pathogenesis Section Deputy Chief, Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health Twitter: @LionakisLab https://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/michail-s-lionakis-md-scd  Dr. Lionakis is a physician-scientist and Head of the Fungal Pathogenesis Section in NIAID’s Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology where he is Deputy [READ MORE]

Ai Ing Lim, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Research Fellow Metaorganism Immunity Section, Laboratory of Host Immunity and Microbiome National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA Twitter: @AiingLim  I view science as an adventure into the unknown. How a single cell divides and differentiates into specialized tissues and organs, constituting a whole [READ MORE]