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We are deeply appreciative of our dedicated volunteers, whose invaluable contributions help drive our knowledge translation efforts. From event support to outreach, their commitment allows us to broaden our impact and reach new audiences. Our volunteers play a vital role in advancing our mission, and we couldn’t achieve our goals without them.

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Amy Thachil

Amy Thachil

Events & Communications Assistant University of British Columbia
Amy is a graduate student at the University of British Columbia, pursuing her masters degree in experimental medicine. Her work focuses on biomarkers of rejection in kidney transplant recipients. Amy has a strong interest in medical research and is keen to explore research topics with relevance to clinical care. She...
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Carina Heller

Carina Heller

Postdoctoral Fellow Friedrich Schiller University Jena Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms)
Carina was trained in psychology and holds a PhD from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, in which she focused on white and gray matter brain alterations in patients with the 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, a syndrome associated with a 30% risk to develop schizophrenia in adult life. In this and...
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Edidiong Daniel

Edidiong Daniel

Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms)
Eddy is an environmental toxicology graduate (BSc) interested in understanding the impact of environmental toxicants on women’s and children’s health, with environmental justice at the core. She is big on science communication and currently works as a communications, design, and marketing outreach intern with the Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN)....
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Jennifer Williams

Jennifer Williams

Assistant Professor Wilfred Laurier University Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms)
Jennifer Williams (she/her) is an Assistant Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in Kinesiology, focusing on women’s cardiovascular physiology and health research. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto studying clinical cardiovascular physiology. Her research focuses on improving heart and artery health outcomes through lifestyle interventions (diet,...
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Joyce Xi

Joyce Xi

Undergraduate Student University of British Columbia Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms)
Joyce Xi is a Biomedical Engineering student at the University of British Columbia. She is passionate about developing sex-specific treatments in biomedicine and applications of genetic engineering. Currently, Joyce works in Dr. Elizabeth Rideout’s lab on several projects to investigate sex-linked differences in metabolism and fat storage using fruit flies...
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Kanak Gupta

Kanak Gupta

The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Discovery (Biological & Genetic Mechanisms)
I’m a Master’s student in Dr. Liisa Galea’s lab at the Institute of Medical Science at University of Toronto. I’m passionate about increasing our scientific knowledge of women’s health issues and better understanding the underlying neuroendocrine mechanisms of neurological disorders, like depression, that affect women at much higher rates than...
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