Team Leader / Principal Investigator
Dr. Harinad (Hari) Maganti PhD
Research Scientist, Innovation & Portfolio Management Department at Canadian Blood Services
Scientific Director, Cellular Therapies Research and Development at Canadian Blood Services [Read more]
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology & Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa [Read more]
Training:
MSc (Dr. Jian Ping Xu) McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
PhD (Dr. William Stanford) at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Postdoctoral fellow (Dr. Freda Miller) at SickKids (2018 – 2020)
Postdoctoral fellow (Dr. Nicolas Pineault) at Canadian Blood Services (2020 – 2022)
Current Members:
Tanvir Hasan MBBS MSc
Senior Research Assistant
MBBS at Khulna Medical College, Rajshahi University, Bangladesh
MSc at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Woratree Kaewsakulthong PhD
Post-doctoral fellow
Training: Post-doctoral fellow (Dr. Marjorie Brand) at Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada (2022-2023)
PhD (Dr. Suthat Fucharoen) at Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
BSc at Thammasat University, Pathumthani, Thailand
Project: Accelerating the clinical translation of “off the shelf” NK cell products for immunotherapies
Ajay Rantan Pasala MSc
Recipient of Canadian Blood Services Graduate Fellowship 2022-2026
PhD candidate, University of Ottawa, ON, Canada
MSc at the University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy
Project: Impact of RNA demethylase FTO on hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell regulation
Justine Hanotaux B.Eng. M.Eng.
PhD student, University of Ottawa
Recipient of Canadian Blood Services Graduate Fellowship 2024-2028
B.Eng. at Polytech Sorbonne, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
M.Eng. at Polytech Clermont, Université Clermont Auvergne, Auvergne, France
Project: Accelerating gene editing therapies for patients with sickle cell disease
Yvonne Asante BSc
MSc student , University of Ottawa
BSc at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Project: Identifying the novel gene regulatory network of ALKBH5 and its impact on human hematopoietic stem cell expansion, in collaboration with Dr. Ted Perkins
Bryenah Bennett
Co-Op Student
BSc student at York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
Project: Cellular engineering of HSCs for immunotherapies
Gabrielle Khare
Co-Op Student
BSc student at University of Ottawa, ON, Canada
Project: A scoping review of gene editing technologies applied to somatic cells in human clinical trials, in collaboration with Dr. David Allan
Lauren Brown
Co-Op Student
BSc student at University of Ottawa, ON, Canada
Project: TBD
Sarah Desroches
Visiting MSc Candidate, Carleton University, ON, Canada
Project: Developing 3D HSC culture
Former Lab Members:
Annaëlle Dupont, Summer exchange student
