Students

Laeken Kinch

Department of Biological Sciences
BSc student, University of Calgary

I am a fourth-year undergraduate student at the University of Alberta, with a major in biological sciences and a minor in psychology. In my spare time, I enjoy bouldering, playing and coaching rugby, as well as volunteering with organizations that work with individuals with disabilities. I became motivated to volunteer with glans-look and POET when my grandfather was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer in 2013 and started treatment under Dr. Gwyn Bebb. After my undergraduate degree, I plan to apply to the Cumming School of Medicine to pursue a career in physical medicine and rehabilitation

Chelsea Ford-Sahibzada

(MSc 2023)

Department of Community Health Sciences
BHSc (Hons) 2019, University of Calgary

Chelsea Ford-Sahibzada graduated with a BHSc (Hons.) degree from the University of Calgary in 2019, during which she completed research in immunology and lung disease. Chelsea has also been involved in volunteer work in the promotion of harm reduction strategies in tobacco cessation. Her thesis work was supervised by Dr. Cheryl Peters and Dr. Darren Brenner and utilized the GLR database to examine potential sex-specific differences in survival in lung cancer. She successfully defended her thesis in December 2022 with a specialization in Epidemiology.

Roxana Tudor

(MSc 2016)

Department of Oncology, University of Calgary

BHSc. (Honors), Western University

Roxana Tudor successfully defended here masters thesis under the supervision of Dr. Gwyn Bebb in 2016.  She was previously mentored by Dr. Natasha Leighl at Princess Margaret Hospital, and the Glans-Look Research program helped kick-start her thesis, as it currently stores a large magnitude of retrospective clinical data.  Roxana’s thesis focused particularly on identifying how EGFRm⁺ lung cancer patients are treated at disease progression after receiving first and/-or second generation EGFR TKIs.

Jarrett Moore

(MSc 2017)

Department of Oncology, University of Calgary

Jarrett graduated from the University of Victoria with his BSc in Biology in 2011, and worked for 2 years as a research assistant. He moved to Calgary in 2014 and began his project with Dr. Bebb at the start of 2015. He was accepted to medical school at the University of Calgary and began his studies in 2017, after successfully defending his MSc thesis. The focus of his thesis has been to determine the underlying mechanisms that result in chemosensitivity to cisplatin and other platinum-based drugs in cells that have lost ATM function.

Noor Asaad Alsaadoun (MSc 2017)

Allison Childers (MSc Candidate)

Anifat Elegbede (MSc 2014)

Rosetta Mazzola (summer student)

Shannon Otsuka (MSc 2012, research associate)

Simone Withecomb (thesis student)

Yifei Wu (summer student)

Rachel Yee (summer student)