Meet our team.

Our Current Lab Members

Position: Professor, Principle Investigator
Email: judy.wong@ubc.ca
Education: B.Sc., M.Sc, Ph.D. Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto
Research Interests: DNA and RNA, genetics, genomics and enzymology
Hobbies: Food, travel, shop, play with my dog

Position: Master’s student
Email: ilnigarn@student.ubc.ca
Education: BSc in Biochemistry and Chemistry, UBC, 2023
Research Interests: Non-canonical activities of TERT in cancer
Hobbies: music :)

Position: Postdoctoral fellow
Email: lina.abouzeid@ubc.ca
Education: PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, 2021, BSc in Cellular Biology and Genetics, UBC, 2013
Research Interests: The role of chromatin remodeling proteins in ALT cancers
Hobbies: Traveling, reading

Position: Lab technician
Email: kat.nguyen@ubc.ca
Education: MSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences, UBC, 2022, BSc in Biological Sciences, University of Denver, 2017
Research Interests: Non-canonical activities of TERT in cancer
Hobbies: Music, movies

Position: PhD student
Email: chadhou@student.ubc.ca
Education: BSc in Biology (Honours), Queen’s University, 2021
Research Interests: Biological functions of G-quadruplexes
Hobbies: Skiing, hiking, camping

Judy Wong Lab Alumni

- Lina Abou Zeid
- Helen Fleisig
- Diego Madureira de Oliveira
- Elwy Okaz
- Nisreen Shumayrikh
- Naresh Thumati
- Sunny Yang
- David Chen
- Chadwick Hou
- Kyle Hukezalie
- Ilnigar Namat
- Kathryn Nguyen
- Raina Tamakawa
- Zhang Tan
- Connor Thompson
- Banafsheh Tighsazzadeh
- Matthew Trudeau
- JiaLin Xu
- Sunny Yang
- Timothy Au Yeung
- Arthur Chan
- Jonathan Chan
- Aland Chang
- Kirby Cronin
- Xavier de la Cruz
- Feiyang Du
- Mohamed Dualle
- Young Gong
- Alice Gu
- John Ha
- Ray Han
- Maggie Ho
- Ashley Jang
- Miso Kim
- Yvonne Lai
- Joanne Lim
- Irine Lu
- Ariel McLeod
- Tom Nguyen
- Macy Wong
- Tiffany Wu
- Bradley Xiang
- Cecile Xiong
- Robert Yao
- Shirley Yeung
- Grace Yip
- Andy Zhao
- Rafael Zhao