Principal Investigator: Sampath Kumar Loganathan
Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
Co-Director, Head and Neck Cancer Research Laboratory
4) Department of Biochemistry
Education: Ph.D. Biochemistry, University of Alberta (Supervisor: Dr. Joe Casey)
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute (Supervisor: Dr. Daniel Schramek)
Research Interests: in vivo and in vitro models of Cancer, CRISPR gene editing, cell signaling, molecular mechanisms of disease and drug discovery
Other Interests: Photography, reading (not science), soccer and wilderness
Contact: sampath.loganathan@mcgill.ca
Graduate Student: Yue Yan
Education: B.Sc. Biology, 2021, McGill University M.Sc. Otolaryngology, 2023– McGill University
Ph.D. Experimental Medicine Candidate
Research Interests: Exploring metabolic dependencies of HNSCC tumours in mouse models
Other Interests: Reading, Drawing
Contact: yue.yan@mail.mcgill.ca
Graduate Student: Adway Kadam
Education: B.Tech Biotechnology, VIT Vellore, India
MSc. Applied Biotechnology, McGill University
PhD Candidate, Experimental Surgery
Research Interests: CRISPR based mouse models of cancer
Other Interests: Football, Painting, Gaming
Contact: adway.kadam@mail.mcgill.ca
Graduate Student: Zahra Kardan
Education: B.Sc. Cellular and Molecular Biology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran M.Sc. Candidate, Experimental Surgery, McGill University
Research Interests: Cancer biology, Bioinformatics, Neurogenetics.
Other Interests: creative writing, painting, adventures
Contact: zahra.kardan@mail.mcgill.ca
Graduate Student: Ali Taqvi
Education: Honours B.Sc. Human Biology: Fundamental Genetics, University of Toronto (2017-2021)
M.Sc. Candidate, Experimental Medicine, McGill University
Research Interests: CRISPR gene-editing technology, Head & Neck Cancer, Cancer Research and Translational Biology
Other Interests:Arcade, Games, Baking, Fitness, Netflix, Online Shopping
Contact: ali.taqvi@mail.mcgill.ca
Graduate Student: Tuan Khang Huynh
Education: H.B.Sc. Life Science, University of Toronto, 2022.
M.Sc. Candidate, Experimental Medicine, McGill University
Research Interests: Molecular oncology, Cellular Biology, Physiology
Other Interests: Jogging, tennis, playing instruments
Contact: tuan.k.huynh@mail.mcgill.ca
Research Assistant: Nahid Golabi
(Dr. Loganathan and Dr. Sadeghi Lab)
Education:
Research Interests:
Other Interests:
Contact: nahid.golabi@mail.mcgill.ca
Post Doctoral Fellow: Dr. Amina Laham
Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
Education: Ph.D. in Experimental Medicine, McGill University, QC
Research Interests: Cancer research, Crisper Cas 9 screen, targeted therapy, and cancer therapeutics
Other Interests: Reading, shopping and watching movies.
Contact: amina.laham@mail.mcgill.ca
Graduate Student: Drishti Soni
(jointly supervised with Dr. Lawrence Kazak, Goodman Cancer Research Institute)
Education: B.Sc. Biochemistry, University of Delhi, India
M.Sc. Biotechnology, Mahararaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India
Junior Research Fellow, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, India
PhD candidate, Department of Biochemistry, McGill University
Research Interests: Exploring the effect of obesity in breast cancer development using in- vivo genome wide-CRISPR screen.
Other Interests: cooking, baking, travelling
Contact: drishti.soni@mail.mcgill.ca
Laboratory Technician (part-time): Adele Lopes
Education: B.Sc. Pharmacology 3rd year, McGill University
Research Interests: CRISPR gene editing, Rett syndrome and MeCP2, epigenetic regulators of disease, and cancer biology
Other Interests: running, music, and reading
Contact: adele.lpoes@mail.mcgill.ca
Name Year Current Position
Logine Ghadban 2021-2022 Dental School
Negin Nasim (EXSU623 course student) 2021-2022 QC Analyst, Charles River
Xavier Ng (Summer Research student) 2021-2022, 2022-2023 M.Sc, Experimental Medicine McGill
Dr. Marc-André Gauthier, MD (M.Sc. Otolaryngology) 2021-2023 Clinical Residency, McGill
Yue Yan (M.Sc. Otolaryngology) 2021-2023 PhD Experimenal Medicine, Loganathan lab!
Shabeeba Muhammed Ashraf (Post-doctoral Fellow) 2023-2024 n/a