Career Opportunities

Research Interests: Nanotechnologies, Structural Tissue Engineering / Biomaterials, Inflammatory Respiratory Diseases, Skin, New Biomedical Approaches - Alternatives to Animal Testing, Novel Therapies for Inflammatory and Genetic Diseases of Human Epithelia, Tissue Regeneration and Wound Healing, Topical Drug Delivery and Nanomedicine

Potential project areas:

1. Development and characterization of complex, human-based tissue models incl. organ-on-chip cultures

2. Development of gene therapies for genetic diseases of the skin and lungs 

Research Interests: Cellular virology, Emerging human viruses, COVID-19, Host-virus interactions, Broad-based antiviral agents, Antiviral agents, Natural products as antiviral agents, Lipid-modulating drugs, Cellular protease inhibitors, Viral protease inhibitors, Human coronaviruses, SARS-CoV-2, Human flaviviruses, Dengue virus, Zika virus, West Nile virus, Influenza A virus, Human microRNAs, Therapeutic microRNA, Viral and cellular biomarkers, Molecular diagnostics for detecting viral infection, Circulating exosomes, Exosomal microRNAs, Proteomics-based technologies, Multiplexed and Mass Spectrometric quantitation assays

Potential project areas:

1. Antiviral strategies and antiviral therapeutics for WHO-priority viruses

2. Comparative phenotypic profiling and genomic analysis of emerging and re-emerging human enveloped pathogenic viruses

3. Discovering broad-spectrum therapeutics  for human viral diseases

4. Discovering novel broad-spectrum antiviral agents from natural product libraries

5. Unraveling the molecular mechanism of actions of newly discovered broad-spectrum antiviral molecules against human viruses using 2D and 3D organoids

6. Discovery of human host factors required for human virus infection using CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology

7. Identifying repurposable drug candidates for viral infection either tested alone or in combination using human organoid-based screening platforms with the goal of identifying synergistic drug combinations.

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Cancer Genetics, Cancer biology, Genomic rearrangements, Genomics, Pancreas, Pathology, Patient derived models

Potential project areas:

We conduct translational cancer research and have various ongoing projects focusing on Pancreatic Cancer. We are looking for students interested in a bioinformatics and bench top project studying genomic alterations and rearrangements and students interested in the development and use of patient deterived organoid models for translational research including drug screening, metabolism, and idetification of treatment markers. 

Research Interests: Partial differential equations, mathematical physics

Research Interests: German Language Cultures and Literatures, Transnational Literatures, Visual Arts and Literature, European Studies, Literature and Sciences, Literature and Migration, Narratives of Belonging, Decolonization and Indigenization

Potential project areas:

Literature and migration; literature and visual arts; critical European Cultural Studies; gender, race, ethnicity; diversity and super-diversity; social studies approaches to literature; postmigration studies; narratives of belonging; avant-garde studies; exile studies; art and bioart performances; biopolitics; images of the body; Indigenous studies; practical approaches to decolonization;

Research Interests: Integrated Circuits, Computer Architecture, Computer Hardware, Computer-Aided Design Algorithms, Field-Programmable Gate Arrays, High-Level Synthesis

Potential project areas:

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Research Interests: Free education, Preventive medicine, Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Holocaust Studies, Exile Reintegration, Democratization, Intervention Research

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My primary research is on my invention, NextGenU.org, uniquely providing free education from first grade to PhD.  Starting with a focus in the health sciences, NextGenU.org's accredited courses are being used every country, including through half of US medical schools.

Founded/invented by me in 2001 (predating MOOCs by 7 years), we globally launched our first full course in March 2012. We have tested and published on this free model in North American medical, public health, and undergraduate students, and in community health workers and primary care physicians in Kenya and in India, demonstrating as much knowledge gain and greater student satisfaction than with traditional courses, and the creation of a global community of practice.  You can see those publications here:  https://nextgenu.org/static/publications.html

More on me here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erica_Frank and here:  https://ubcmj.med.ubc.ca/becoming-a-health-advocate-an-interview-with-erica-frank/ 

Research Interests: Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms, Biomass, Carbohydrates, Cellulose, Chemical Synthesis and Catalysis, Enzymes, Microbiota, Plant cell walls, Polysaccharides

Research Interests: Hereditary Cancer, Cell division, Cell migration, Differentiation, Cell polarity