Featured Labs
Dr. Alison Fox-Robichaud's Lab
David Braley Research Institute
Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis Research Institute
- Alison Fox-Robichaud; MSc, MD, FRCPC (Int Med, Critical Care)
- Tracey Reynolds, Administrative Assistant
- Paulina Kowalewska, PhD*
- Momina Khan, PhD*
- Peter Grin, Summer Student
- Michael Xu, Summer Student
- Christine Wardell, Summer Student
Dr. Patricia Liaw's Lab
Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis Research Insitute (TaARI)
- Dr. Patricia Liaw
- Dr. Dhruva Dwivedi (research associate)
- Dr. Valdirene de Souza (postdoctoral fellow)
- Sarah Medeiros (graduate student)
- Neha Sharma (graduate student)
- Sahar Sohrabipour (graduate student)
- Nicholas Jackson Chornenki (medical student)
- Andrew Kwong (4th year thesis student)
- Lauren Haggstrom (4th year thesis student)
- Maher Jibrini (4th year thesis student)
The Calvin, Phoebe, and Joan Snyder Translational Laboratory in Critical Care Medicine
The University of Calgary Health Science Centre
- Paul Kubes; PhD
- Caroline Léger, PhD
- Patrick Tam, Research Assistant
Translational Research Centre
London, Ontario
The Translational Research Centre supports local, national and international projects through the collection, processing, storage and shipment of biological specimens for research purposes. Hypotheses are investigated with greater ease and rapidity by linking critical care clinicians and scientists focused on improving therapies and remedying disease in ICUs. Please visit our website for a full listing of tissues collected, services provided and current projects as well as downloads and information about our clinical database.
- Douglas D. Fraser, MD, PhD, FRCPC, TRC Director
- Carolina Gillio Meina, PhD, TRC Research Associate
- Jennifer Devlin, Adminstrative Coordinator
- Dominic Langley, BSc, BA, cMBA Business Manager
Dr. Jean-François Calhier's Lab
Macrophages are the central element of the laboratory. Deciphering the role of macrophages during inflammatory processes clearly define our interests using translational research models (using both clinical and basic science approaches). Not only we are interested in the mechanisms involved in macrophages reprogramming in response to the cues generated from inflammatory environments (injury/infection), but we are also studying the subsequent impact of macrophages on other immune cells such as neutrophils and lymphocytes. Macrophage are plastic, they can adopt either a pro- or anti-inflammatory phenotype. We are currently studying how macrophages contribute to various inflammatory diseases found in the intensive care units and how they are affected by their treatment from subarachnoid hemorrhage, brain death, transplantation, fulminant hepatitis to cancer. This will give us the opportunity to identify how to reprogram macrophages to modulate the inflammatory response as we desire to help our patients.