Current Undergraduate Students & Volunteers

Interests

  • Molecular Biology

  • Gene Therapy

Krish Devgan

NSERC USRA, 2025

More information to come.


Interests

  • Biology

  • Gene therapy

Grace Mather

Summer Research Assistant

Grace is currently a summer research assistant with the Theraphage Lab.


Alumni Undergraduate Students

Interests

  • Life Sciences

  • Gene Therapy

Kate Nagge

Co-op Research Asssistant, 2025

Kate was a co-op research assistant with the Theraphage Lab during Winter 2025. She was integral to the team, assisting with daily lab tasks and becoming adept at several experimental processes. She also assisted with editing and formatting of Bacteriophage-Based Vectors in Gene Therapy. She is currently pursuing Nursing at Conestoga College


Interests

  • Gene therapy

  • Molecular biology

Shirley Cheung

NSERC USRA Student, 2024

Shirley studied Biomedical Science at the University of Waterloo, and completed her Senior Honours Project as well as an NSERC-USRA with the Theraphage lab from September 2023 - August 2024. Her project involved the construction of anellovirus vectors.

Education:

  • B.Sc. Honours Biomedical Science, University of Waterloo (2024)


Interests

  • Biology

Jayshree Patel

Summer Research Assistant, 2024

Jayshree was a summer research assistant with the Theraphage Lab. She completed her B.Sc. in Biomedical Science at the University of Waterloo in 2024.

Education

  • B.Sc. Biomedical Science, University of Waterloo (2024)


Interests

  • Molecular Biology

  • Pharmaceutical Science

Talia Fiaani

NSERC USRA Student, 2023

Talia completed her Senior Honours Project as well as an NSERC-USRA with Theraphage Lab from September 2022-August 2023; her project focused on the enhance purification of msDNA using a CRISPR Cas-3 system. She completed her B.Sc. in Biomedical Science at the University of Waterloo in 2024 and is currently pursuing an M.Sc. in Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Toronto.