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Nadia Daniel

President

Nadia joined S2BN to apply her event planning skills to bridge the gap between academia and industry. Nadia is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Medicine at the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on understanding the basic mechanisms underlying the development of allergic diseases. The main focus is the role of barrier function in airway epithelial cells using in vitro and ex vivo human models. Her research will improve our understanding of the fundamental mechanisms of the barrier function in the airway epithelium.

Event Coordinator

PhD Student

Gina is completing her degree with the Department of Medicine at the University of Alberta. She is researching the acute immune response to ischemic stroke in the blood of stroke patients using gene expression and metabolite analysis.

Quinten Kieser

Outreach Coordinator

Quinten is completing his degree through the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology. His research focuses on understanding the entry mechanism used by respiratory syncytial virus in hopes of identifying new therapeutic targets.

Alberto Felix-Lopez

Communications Coordinator

PhD Candidate

Alberto is currently a PhD Candidate in the Medical Microbiology and Immunology (MMI) department at UofA. His research focuses on identifying host dependency factors essential for SARS-CoV-2 infection that can be disturbed by FDA approved drugs.

Jay Gamma

Treasurer

PhD Candidate

Jay is an PhD Candidate in the Department of Medicine at the University of Alberta.  His research is exploring the importance of myristoylation in Acute Myeloid Leukemia, and assess the efficacy and functionality of Pacylex Pharmaceutical's drug candidate PCLX-001 as a novel, first-in-class treatment for AML and related cancers.

Kevin Joannou

Kevin is a graduate student in the  Medical Microbiology and Immunology department at the University of Alberta.