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
Michelle Chan-Seng-Yue, B.Sc - Research Associate II
Felix Beaudry, Ph.D - Scientific Associate
Amelia Xu, Ph.D
Wei Quan, Ph.D - Scientific Associate II
Staff
Karen Ng, M.Sc - Lab Manager
Eugenia Flores-Figueroa, Ph.D - Scientific Associate II
Milena Gallucci B.Sc- Research Technician II
Roya Derwish, M.Sc, Ph.D - Scientific Associate I
Annie Hum - Admin
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Dusan Vukmirovic, M.Sc, Ph.D
Yu Zhang, Ph.D
Christoph Gerdes, MD
Ayah Al-Qaderi, Ph.D - Pathologist
Graduate Students
Sabrina Ge, B.Sc - Ph.D Candidate
Yuanchang Fang, M.Sc - Ph.D Candidate
Nikta Feizi, M.Sc - Ph.D Candidate
Soloman Das Kabir, MBBS - Ph.D Candidate
Duhan Yendi, Hon. B.Sc - Ph.D Candidate
Undergraduate Students
Nyla Smith
Sara Qureshi
Volunteers
Ahura Rezaee
Awet Tewelde, MD, M.Sc, Ph.D,
Notta Lab Alumni
Zhen-Mei Liu, Ph.D - Technician
Amara Osonwa
Tienna Schade
Kendra Ruhl
Sabiq Chaudhary
Paul Tonon, M.Sc - Ph.D student
Ian Herrera, M.Sc
Wreath Shams
Vugar Azizov, PhD, BCMAS - Post-Doctoral
Maryam Monajezadeh