Lab Members
Principal Investigator
Faiyaz Notta, Ph.D
Scientist, Princess Margaret Hospital
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto
Faiyaz Notta received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in the lab of Dr. John Dick, where he redefined the human hematopoetic stem cell hierarchy and uncovered genetic diversity in leukemic cancer stem cells. He completed post-doctoral work at the Ontario Institute of Cancer Research with Dr. Tom Hudson, an architect of the Human Genome Project, and expanded from liquid to solid tumors to show the importance of copy number alterations in pancreatic cancer progression. The Notta Lab currently investigates both leukemia and pancreatic cancer, with a focus on using genomic subtypes to inform translational therapeutic development.
Our Team
PanCuRx
Faiyaz Notta, Ph.D - Co-Lead
Steven Gallinger, M.D., M.Sc - Co-Lead
Julie Wilson, Ph.D - Associate Director
Gun Ho Jang, Ph.D - Statistician/Bioinformatician
Amy Zhang, M.Sc - Bioinformatician
Oumaima Hamza, M.Sc - Bioinformatician
Paul Tonon, M.Sc - Ph.D student
Staff
Karen Ng, M.Sc - Lab Manager
Michelle Chan-Seng-Yue, B.Sc - Research Associate II
Eugenia Flores-Figueroa, Ph.D - Scientific Associate II
Zhen-Mei Liu, Ph.D - Technician
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Vugar Azizov, Ph.D
Graduate Students
Sabrina Ge, B.Sc - Ph.D student
Irene Xie, M.D. - Ph.D student
Lauren Hummel, B.Sc - M.Sc student
Linsey Gong, B.Sc - M.Sc student
Yuanchang Fang, M.Sc - Ph.D student
Nikta Feizi, M.Sc - Ph.D student
Soloman Das, MBBS - Ph.D student
Undergraduate Students
Richard Kim - Co-op
Janvi Tamakuwala - Co-op
Sara Ziadat - ROP student
Berke Altiparmak - ROP student
Danae Chen - ROP student
Lab Alumni
Stanley Ng, Ph.D - Post-doctoral fellow (2020 – 2023)
Tristan Woo - M.Sc student (2019-2022)
Danielle Arshinoff, M.D. - M.Sc student (2021-2022)
Jaeseung Kim - Ph.D student (2016-2022)
Gavin Wilson, PhD - Post-doctoral fellow (2017 – 2018)
Sangeetha Kalimuthu, MD - Clinical research fellow (2017 – 2018)
Undergraduates
Shimin Liu - ROP student (2022)
Sophia Brothers - ROP student (2022)
Shauhin Yazdani - Co-op (2022)
Nilane Arulalagan - Volunteer (2022)
Mahdi Naimi - Co-op (2022)
Dahanny Aguilar - Co-op (2021)
David Felipe Tello Yepes - Co-op (2021)
Abirame Senthan - Co-op (2021 & 2022)
Nicolette Gismondi - Co-op (2021)
Sarah Odinotski - Co-op student (2019-2020)
Adrienne Ranger - Co-op student (2018-2019)