Dr. Tabea Stephan is a postdoctoral fellow with the Provincial Health Services Authority. Her research interest focuses on the dynamics of gene regulation during development, regeneration and disease. She is working as a clinical research coordinator establishing relationships between clinicians and scientists, ethical compliance, protocol development and data analysis.
Tabea earned her MSc in Molecular Health Sciences at the ETH Zurich, working on characterizing the capacity of stem cells to improve healing of complex fractures, including the formation of the bone marrow niche for hematopoietic stem cells. She earned her PhD in Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of British Columbia in 2024. Her thesis focused on chromatin dynamics and gene regulation during in vitro differentiation of human induced stem cells to liver cells. She identified the protein TBX3 as a driver of hepatic fate in differentiating liver cells. After completing her PhD she joined the LivBC team to investigate parallels between development and liver cancer. Besides her work in research coordination she lends her expertise on single-cell genomics data analysis to the team.
Throughout her work she is committed to translating research into changing outcomes for patients, interdisciplinary collaboration and mentoring of trainees.