Past Group Members

Dr. Uzair Ahmed

Medical Resident M.Sc.
Master's Thesis (2018 – 2020), Dean's Project Summer Student (2011, 2012)
The effects of hyperoxemia in the prevention of poststroke damage. X-Ray fluorescence spectroscopic imaging of magnetically labeled neural stem cells in a rat model.

Vedashree Meher

Undergraduate student, M.Sc. student
Master’s Thesis (2017 – 2020), Honours Student (2016 – 2017), Biomedical Summer Student (2017)
Analysis of thrombi from acute ischemic stroke patients using advanced imaging techniques. The effect of trifluoperazine (TFP) on post-stroke brain edema; A pilot study.

Richard Wang

Undergraduate student
Honours student (Sept 2019 – April 2020), Biomedical Summer Student (2019, 2020)
Using mouse models to characterize high systemic iron’s effect on stroke. Hemochromatosis’ effect on iron physiology and stroke outcomes.

Julia Newton

Undergraduate student, Medical undergraduate student
Dean’s Project Summer Student (2019), Honours Student (2017 – 2018), Biomedical Summer Student (2017, 2018)
Stroke in females - does it look any different? Examining photothrombotic stroke in female mice. Assessing post-stroke blood brain barrier permeability with MRI contrast agents: Probing the elemental distribution and chemical speciation of gadolinium in the brain. The chemical fate of gadolinium-based contrast agents in an ischemic environment.

Dr. Jonathan Heppner

Medical undergraduate student
Dean’s Project Summer Student (2018, 2019)
Spatio-temporal characterization of post-stroke blood brain barrier permeability in mouse models. Chronology of blood brain barrier degeneration in mouse models of ischemic stroke.

Dr. Layla Gould

Postdoctoral Fellow
Post-doctorate (2016 – 2019)
Assessing the neurobiology of motor recovery after stroke with and without cross-education rehabilitation. Intraoperative neuroelectrophysiology fellowship.

Xia Wu

M.Sc. student
Master’s Thesis (2014 – 2019)
Bioprinting of hydrogel cardiac patch for myocardial infarction and its ex-vivo characterization using Synchrotron-based imaging.

Dr. Mohammad Izadifar

Ph.D. student, Postdoctoral Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellow (2016 - 2017), D. candidate (2013 – 2016)
Development of 3D-printed biofunctional cardiac mimetic hydrogel
Implants. Development and synchrotron-based non-invasive assessment of rate-modulated nanoparticle-incorporated cardiac patch for cardiovascular tissue engineering.

Dr. Annalise Kudryk

Medical undergraduate student
Dean’s Project Summer Student (2017)
Ultrastructural analysis of the peri-infarct zone in a mouse model of ischemic stroke.

Dr. Jenna Mann

Medical undergraduate student
Dean’s Project Summer Student (2017)
The natural history of small unruptured intracranial aneurysms in Saskatchewan.

Dr. Mark J. Hackett

CIHR Postdoctoral Fellow
Jan 2015 – Dec 2016
Tissue preservation methods, ischemic stroke imaging, FTIR spectroscopic imaging.

Dr. Brendan Leddy

Medical undergraduate student
Dean’s Project Summer Student (2016)
Development of a novel application of stroke care.

Xue Han

M.Sc. student
Master’s Thesis (2012 – 2016)
Fabrication and optimal-design of biodegradable stents for the treatment of aneurysms.

Kristine Haugo

M.Sc. student
Master’s thesis (2011 – 2015)
Alanyl-glutamine has no effect on epidural fibrosis in a post-laminectomy rat model.

Dr. Sally Caine

Postdoctoral Fellow
Post-doctorate (2012 – 2014)
Tracking neural stem cells in a photothrombotic stroke model using gene expression mapping using synchrotron light.

Dr. Alek Szmigielski

Medical undergraduate student
Dean’s Project Summer Student (2014)
Synchrotron-based imaging to analyse cerebral calcium and biochemical markers of oxidative stress in a mouse photothrombotic stroke model.