Team

PROGENITER is organized for success with a closely knit core team and a layered interaction network that enables synergistic collaboration with adjacent disciplines within the broader expertise of CIEBH teams including social sciences, biomanufacturing, cell therapy and LNP formulation.

Our network is also directly linked to our academic and industrial partners to achieve seamless translation of the discoveries into products, with IP aspects proactively facilitated by the technology transfer offices at The University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University.

Director

Sriram Subramaniam, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, UBC; Founder and CEO of Gandeeva Therapeutics

Dr. Subramaniam is globally recognized for his leading contributions to cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). He is a Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, in the Faculty of Medicine at The University of British Columbia, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Precision Cancer Drug Design and Founder and CEO of Gandeeva Therapeutics.

Dr. Subramaniam’s decades-long experience in working with the structural biology of HIV-1, influenza, and Ebola, coupled with his longstanding experience in pioneering development and application of cryo-EM technology, as well as his role in founding Gandeeva Therapeutics and leading its AI-driven cryo-EM platform make him ideally suited to lead all elements of the project.

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Researchers

Ralph Pantophlet

Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University; Scientific Director, SFU containment Level 3 Laboratory (BIO3 Lab)

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Eric Jan

Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UBC

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Horacio Bach

Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, UBC

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Maria Tokuyama

Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Science, UBC

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Khanh Dao Duc

Assistant Professor, Mathematics, UBC

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Steve Plotkin

Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UBC

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Eden Fussner-Dupas, Assistant Professor, Teaching, Department of Molecular Biology, UBC

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Shyh-Dar Li, Professor, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UBC

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Anna Blakney, PhD

Assistant Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering and Michael Smith Laboratories, UBC

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Kyla King

Professor, Departments of Zoology and Microbiology and Immunology, UBC; Professor of Evolutionary Ecology, Department of Biology, Oxford

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Leonard Foster

Professor and Head of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UBC

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Larry Lynd

Professor and Dean, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UBC

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Annie Ciernia

Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UBC

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