Airway Regeneration: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach
As part of our Monday seminar series, we are delighted to welcome our speaker:
Golnaz Karoubi, PhD
Assistant Professor; University of Toronto
Assistant Scientist; University Health Network
Hosted by
Jason Fish, PhD
How to join
An email including Zoom link will be sent to the LMP community.
If you are not part of LMP and wish to join, please contact:
Louella D'Cunha
Speaker: Golnaz Karoubi
Golnaz Karoubi is a recently appointed early career investigator in her 2nd year of independent research at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute (University Health Network) and Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto.
She has a combined 18 years of research in the biomedical engineering field; focusing on translational basic science and tissue engineering research.
She received her undergraduate applied science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto and her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering from the University of Toronto. Her post-doctoral studies in cell-based therapeutic strategies for lung disease took her to the University of Berne in Switzerland where she spent an additional three years as Group Leader in the Department of Clinical Research. She returned to Toronto in 2012 and joined Dr. Tom Waddell at the Latner Thoracic Research Laboratories as a Scientific Associate and as Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto in 2017.
Her research program is focused on the application of pluripotent stem cell sources in ‘Airway Regeneration’ balancing translational and exploratory approaches with the goal to better understand cell-microenvironment interactions and to use the acquired information to develop and utilize physiologically relevant ex vivo platforms thus engineering clinically applicable therapeutic strategies.
Current project themes include:
- Evaluation of microenvironmental effects on human induced pluripotent stem (hiPS) cell lung derivatives for enhanced utility and disease modelling.
- Use of hiPS-derived airway epithelial cells for generation of tissue-engineered grafts and tracheal constructs
- Re-cellularization of acellular lung scaffolds in biomimetic physiologically relevant ex-vivo culture systems.