Interests

• Neurophysiology

• Human physiology

• Molecular and Cellular Biology

• Biomedical Research and Translational Science

• Applied Life Sciences
  

Max Chiao

Co-op Research Assistant, 2025

Max is a co-op research assistant with the Theraphage Lab for Fall 2025. He is assisting with reprogramming astrocytes into neurons as a novel therapeutic approach for neurodegenerative diseases.

Contact

• max.chiao@uwaterloo.ca

Presentations:

Chiao, M., Ffrench, A., Beazely, M., Slavcev, R. Intelligent Phagemid-Assembled Gene Expression (iPhAGE) for Astrocyte-Mediated Neuronal Reprogramming in Neurodegenerative Disease. Presented at: Symposium on Neuroscience Research (SoNR). 2025, December. Waterloo, ON, Canada