OSEI LAB
Meet the Team
Principal Investigator/Head
Dr. Emmanuel T. Osei
Emmanuel received his PhD from the University of British Columbia and the University of Groningen. He has years of experience researching obstructive lung disease, inflammation, and fibrosis using in vitro models that mimic the human body.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr. Christina Chen
Christina received her PhD from UBC and is developing 3D biomimetic and bioartificial tissue models to explore how immune cells interact with structural cells and the extracellular matrix.
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MD-PhD Student
Tony Guo
Tony is studying immune-structural cell cross-talk using bioartificial models of the airways
MSc Student
Filsan Abokor
Filsan is currently involved in developing a multi-organ-on-chip platform of the gut-lung axis
MSc Student
Anthon Shamaptho
Anthon is a Master’s student with a background in Biomedical Engineering from UVic, and Field Scientist experience from CELLINK. His research focuses on bioprinting based lung-on-a-chip models to create reproducible systems for studying physiologically relevant pulmonary scenarios
MSc Student
Anita Perazzo
Anita completed her Bachelor's Degree in Biology Honours, focusing on identifying biomarkers and candidate genes both in mouse models and clinical samples to predict radiation-induced lung disease. She is now doing a master's to expand this work, co-supervised by Dr C. Haston.
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MSc Student
Sofia Andressi
Sofia has completed her Bachelor’s Degree in Biology Honours, focusing on insect physiology and gene editing, and is now pursuing an MSc in invertebrate cell culture models, co-supervised by Dr M. Rheault
URA / Honors / Work Placement - BSc Student
Janaeya Baher
Janaeya is developing next-generation organoids and bioprinted models that can effectively mimic lung inflammatory diseases
URA / Honors - BSc Student
Clara Gibbons
Clara is currently studying fibroblast-monocyte/macrophage interactions in 3D in vitro models made to mimic different stiffnesses in diseased versus healthy lung tissue environments
URA / Honors - BSc Student
Logan Yee
Logan is working with the BIOX Bioprinter to optimize printing parameters to make 3D models using bioinks
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Directed Studies - BSc student
Noorat Gill
Noorat is conducting a critical review of research that compares preclinical in vitro biomimetic models to in vivo animal models used to study lung diseases.
Work Study - BSc student
Tak Machiri
Tak volunteers in the lab, working with other members on various (biomimetic and bioengineering) assays.
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Workstudy - B.A.Sc. student
Advik Puri
Advik is optimizing 3D printing protocols for designing lab equipment and testing multicellular models in the Osei lab.
RA - BSc student
Anais Bonnefoy
Anais assists in managing the lab and works on various (biomimetic) assays. She is also involved in conducting critical review studies on lung models
Alumni
Although relatively young, we take pride in our alumni.
Sakshi Phogat
MSc Alumni
Research Tech, UBC ​
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Matthew Bird
BSc Alumni​​
Safiya Al Yazeedi
MSc Alumni
University of Oman​
Katie Feng
BSc Alumni
MPH, Epidemiology, NYU​
Fama Thiam
BSc Alumni
Research Tech,
University of Calgary​
Simin Jafaripour
Former Lab Manager
Lab Tech, UBCO​​
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Emre Demirsoy
BSc Alumni
MSc Student, UBC ​
Joban Sohd
BSc Alumni
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Amr Riyadh
BSc Alumni​
Jed Owoniyi
BSc Alumni
Currently in University of Texas​​
Avni Aggarwal
BSc Alumni​
Juan Brussow
BSc Alumni
Currently in UBC Medicine​
Ajnaa Gautam
BSc Alumni
Veterinary staff at Fairfield Animal Hospital, Kelowna.
5th Year BSc student - UBCO
Tapiwah Kalua
BSc Alumni​