Our Team


Elias Orouji, MD, PhD

Principal Investigator | Scientific Advisor 

Current Lab Members:


Ghazaleh Tavallaee, PhD

Scientific Associate



Amin Noorani, MSc.

Bioinformatics Associate



Jakob Alexander Zerbs

Intern - Undergrad Student

University of Waterloo Student Co-op Program - Systems Design Engineering

Computational Genomics Research Assistant


Former Lab Members:


Hossein Molavi

Intern - Undergrad Student

University of Waterloo Student Co-op Program - Computer Engineering

3D genome architecture analysis



Nicholas Khuu, MSc.

Technical Lead in Assay Development

Single cell and bulk epigenomic experimental workflows



Shu Yi (Roxana) Shen, MSc.

Epigenomic Assays R&D Lead

Cell free based assays (i.e. cf-meDIP)



Joseph Trakalo, MSc.

Epigenomics Research Technician

Chromatin accessibility methods