Members
Principal Investigators
The Neglected Global Diseases Initiative welcomes faculty members from any discipline. We welcome affiliated members from other universities or organizations.
The listing below is alphabetical. To view the full researcher profile with research interests and publications relevant to NGDI, click on the name.
You can also view Principal Investigators by Faculty and Department here.
Mark Ansermino
Associate Professor
Anesthesia | Faculty of Medicine
Email: anserminos@yahoo.com
Website: CFRI
Horacio Bach
Clinical Assistant Professor
Infectious Diseases
Department of Medicine
Email: horacio.bach@gmail.com
Phone: 604.875.4111 (ext. 63914)
Karen Bartlett
Professor
School of Population & Public Health
Faculty of Medicine
Email: karen.bartlett@ubc.ca
Phone: 604.822.6019
Website: Bridge program
Gary Brayer
Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Faculty of Medicine
Email: brayer@mail.ubc.ca
Gregory Dake
Associate Professor
Chemistry | Faculty of Science
Email: gdake@chem.ubc.ca
Phone: 604.822.9121
Website: Chemistry
Cathy Ellis
Senior Instructor
Global Health Midwifery Program
Family Practice | Faculty of Medicine
Email: cathy.ellis@midwifery.ubc.ca
Lindsay Eltis
Professor
Microbiology & Immunology
Faculty of Science
CRC in Microbial Catabolism and Biocatalysis
Email: leltis@ubc.ca
Rachel Fernandez
Associate Professor
Microbiology & Immunology
Faculty of Science
Email: rachel.fernandez@ubc.ca
Phone: 604.822.6824
B. Brett Finlay
Professor
Microbiology & Immunology and Microbiology & Biochemistry
Faculties of Science and Medicine
Email: bfinlay@msl.ubc.ca
Phone: 604.822.2210
John Forbes
Clinical Professor, Emeritus
Pediatrics | Faculty of Medicine
Email: jforbes@cw.bc.ca
Phone: 604.875.2210
Timothy Green
Associate Professor
Food Nutrition & Health
Faculty of Land and Food
Email: tim.green@ubc.ca
Phone: 604.822.0421
Website:Land and Food
David Grierson
Professor
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Email: david.grierson@ubc.ca
Phone: 604.827.3353
Urs Hafeli
Associate Professor
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Email: urs.hafeli@ubc.ca
Phone: 604.822.7133
Jan Hajek
Clinical Assistant Professor
Infectious Diseases
Department of Medicine
Email: janjhajek@gmail.com
Phone: 778.323.1452
Robert E.W. Hancock
Professor
Microbiology & Immunology
Faculty of Science
CRC Health and Genomics
Phone: 604.822.2682
Website: CMDR
Bonnie Henry
Assistant Professor
School of Population and Public Health
Email: bonnie.henry@bccdc.ca
François Jean
Associate Professor
Microbiology & Immunology
Faculty of Science
Email: fjean@mail.ubc.ca
Phone: 604.822.0256
Wilfred Jefferies
Professor
Microbiology & Immunology | Medical Genetics
Faculties of Science and Medicine
Email: wilf@brc.ubc.ca
Phone: 604.822.6961
Rosemin Kassam
Associate Professor
School of Population and Public Health
Faculty of Medicine
Email: rosemin.kassam@ubc.ca
Phone: 604.822.7181
Website: Population & Public Health
Christian Kastrup
Assistant Professor
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Faculty of Medicine
Email: ckastrup@msl.ubc.ca
Phone: 604.827.3749
Svetlana Kishchenko
Clinical Assistant Professor
School of Population and Public Health
Faculty of Medicine
Email: svetlana.kishchenko@ubc.ca
Niranjan (Tex) Kissoon
Associate Head and Professor
Critical Care | Pediatrics
Faculty of Medicine
Email: nkissoon@cw.bc.ca
Frank Ko
Professor
Materials Engineering
Faculty of Applied Science
CRC in Advanced Fibrous Materials
Email: frank.ko@ubc.ca
Phone: 604.822.7945
Tobias Kollmann
Associate Professor
Infectious Diseases | Pediatrics
Faculty of Medicine
Email: tkollmann@cw.bc.ca
Phone: 604.875.2466
James Kronstad
Professor
Microbiology & Immunology
Faculty of Science
Email: kronstad@msl.ubc.ca
Phone: 604.822.4732
Website: MSL Kronstad
Fawziah Lalji
Professor
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Email: Fawziah.marra@bccdc.ca
Website: Pharmaceutical Sciences
Charles Larson
Clinical Professor
Pediatrics | Faculty of Medicine
Email: clarson@cw.bc.ca
Phone: 604.875.2345 (ext. 5642)
Richard Lester
Assistant Professor
Infectious Diseases
Department of Medicine
Email: rlester.id@gmail.com
Phone: 604.707.5604
Website: Medicine
Edwin Levy
Adjunct Professor
W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics
Email: ed.levy.9@gmail.com
Phone: 604.789.6006
Website: IPPRG
Jennifer Love
Associate Professor
Chemistry | Faculty of Science
Email: jenlove@chem.ubc.ca
Phone: 604.822.3187
Hongshen Ma
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Faculty of Applied Science
Email: hongma@mech.ubc.ca
Phone: 604.827.4703
Nisha Malhotra
Instructor
School of Economics
Faculty of Arts
Email: nishamalhot@gmail.com
Website: Economics
Lawrence McIntosh
Professor
Chemistry | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Faculties of Science and Medicine
Email: mcintosh@chem.ubc.ca
Phone: 604.822.3341
Donald G. Moerman
Professor
Zoology | Faculty of Science
Email: moerman@zoology.ubc.ca
Phone: 604.822.3365
Steve Morgan
Associate Professor
School of Population and Public Health
Email: morgan@chspr.ubc.ca
Phone: 604.822.7012
Website: Population & Public Health
Muhammad Morshed
Clinical Professor
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
Email: muhammad.morshed@bccdc.ca
Phone: 604-707-2622
Michael Murphy
Professor
Microbiology & Immunology
Faculty of Science
Email: michael.murphy@ubc.ca
Phone: 604.822.8022
Website: Microbiology
Gina Ogilvie
Associate Professor
School of Population and Public Health
Faculty of Medicine
CRC in Global Control of HPV-Related Disease and Cancer
Email: gina.ogilvie@bccdc.ca
Christopher Orvig
Professor
Chemistry | Faculty of Science
Email: orvig@chem.ubc.ca
Phone: 604.822.4449
Website: Chemistry
Wingfield Rehmus
Clinical Assistant Professor
Pediatrics | Faculty of Medicine
Email: wingfield@rehmus.com
Jean Francois (Mickey) Rostoker
Clinical Associate Professor
Family Practice| Faculty of Medicine
Email: mrostoker@gmail.com
Jerry Spiegel
Professor
School of Population and Public Health
Faculty of Medicine
Email: jerry.spiegel@ubc.ca
Phone: 604.822.1398
Website: Liu Institute
Peter von Dadelszen
Associate Professor
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Faculty of Medicine
Email: pdadelszen@cw.bc.ca
Phone: 604.875.3054
Kishor Wasan
Past Director | NGDI-UBC
Dean Pharmacy and Nutrition
University of Saskatchewan
Email: kishor.wasan@usask.ca
Steve Withers
Professor
Chemistry | Faculty of Science
CRC Chemical Biology
Email: withers@chem.ubc.ca
Phone: 604.822.3402
Vikramaditya G. Yadav
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Chemical & Biological Engineering | Faculty of Applied Science
Email: vikramaditya.yadav@ubc.ca
Phone: 604.827.2706
Annalee Yassi
Professor
School of Population & Public Health
Faculty of Medicine
CRC in Transdiscplinary Health Promotion Research
Email: Annalee.Yassi@ubc.ca
Phone: 604.916.6764
Research Associates and Post-Doctoral Fellows
Janine Copp
Research Associate
Michael Smith Laboratories
Email: janine.copp@msl.ubc.ca
Walter Karlen
Post-Doctoral Fellow | Research Assistant
Faculty of Applied Sciences
Electrical and Computer Engineering in Medicine (CFRI)
Email: walterk@ece.ubc.ca
Emily Marden
Research Associate
Faculty of Law
Email: emily.marden@gmail.com
Nico Marr
Post-doctoral Fellow
Department of Pediatrics
Faculty of Medicine
Email: nmarr@cfri.ca
Matthew Wiens
Post-doctoral Fellow
Division of Infectious Diseases
Faculty of Medicine
Email: mowiens@outlook.com