Dr. Kotzer has over 20 years of experience in research, operations and administration management in an academic environment. After completing her PhD in cell and molecular biology in the UK and a postdoctoral fellowship at UBC, she traded the lab bench for an office and is currently the Research Projects & Operations Leader of the Terry Fox Laboratory at the BC Cancer. She has been the Program Manager of the Leukemia and Myeloma Program of BC since 2018.
Dr. Weng received his MD and PhD from the University of Chicago. Dr. Weng is now both a Distinguished Scientist at the Terry Fox Laboratory and a Clinical Hematopathologist at the BC Cancer Agency, and also a holds a Professor position in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Weng is the Directors of both the Clinical Flow Cytometry Laboratory and Research Flow Cytometry Core Facility, and Medical Director of the Stem Cell Assay Clinical Lab at BC Cancer.
After receiving his MD from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Dr. Karsan practiced medicine in rural British Columbia and the Northwest Territories and as a volunteer with Médecins Sans Frontières. He completed his residency in Hematological Pathology at the University of British Columbia followed by a Research Fellowship at the University of Washington. Currently Dr. Karsan is Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of British Columbia, and Distinguished Scientist at the Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer.
Dr. Kuchenbauer received his MD education at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany in 2001 and completed a PhD degree at the Terry Fox Laboratory, BC Cancer and the University of British Columbia under the supervision of Dr. Keith Humphries in 2009. After establishing his research and clinical program in the Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit at the University of Ulm in Germany he returned to Vancouver in 2018 and is currently a Senior Scientist in the Terry Fox Laboratory and a Clinical Scientist in the Leukemia and Bone Marrow Transplant program of BC. Dr.
Dr. Hoodless completed her PhD at Queen’s University at Kingston Ontario, followed by postdoctoral work at Rockefeller University in New York, and The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. She is currently a Distinguished Scientist and the Director of the Terry Fox Laboratory at BC Cancer. She is a Professor at the University of British Columbia in the Department of Medical Genetics.
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