Dr. Raheleh Niavarani
Current title:
Postdoctoral Fellow
Degrees:
Postdoctoral degree in epigenetics from Ludwig Institute of Cancer Research University of Oxford, MSc and PhD in immunology from Sherbrooke University, BSC in Biology Health Science from Bishop’s University.
Affiliations:
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network
Raheleh earned her Ph.D. and her MSc. in Immunology at the Université de Sherbrooke, QC, Canada. She joined the DaCosta Lab as a Post-doctoral fellow in 2024.
In the DaCosta Lab, I will be an integral part of the expansion of research collaborations involving cancer imaging as the lab broadens its cancer research program in the next few years. I will help to develop new optical imaging techniques using our pioneering in vivo intravital imaging platforms to increase our ability to study tumor biology and the effects of emerging treatments (e.g. immune therapies on tumor response and influence on the tumor microenvironment and metastatic process).
N Fazel, L Hendrikse, M St Paul, JFortin, R Niavarani, L Smith, C Zheng, E Foffi, J Haight, S Jafari, P Luo, S Liu, T Frances, A Wakeham, T Berger, T Ketela, K Gill, R Mcwilliam, M Saunders, T Mak (2024), Acetylcholine derived from B lymphocytes controls liver regeneration. Science (Under review, Manuscript Number: adp0133, 11 March 2024).
SR Niavarani, G St-Cyr, L Daniel, C Lawson, H Giguère, A A Alkayyal, LH Tai (2023). Heterologous prime-boost cellular vaccination induces potent antitumor immunity against triple negative breast cancer. Front Immunol, 2023 Feb 13:14:1098344. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1098344. eCollection 2023.
C Rangsitratkul+, C Lawson+, F Bernier-Godon, SR Niavarani, M Boudaud, S Rouleau, AO Gladu-Corbin, A Surendran, N Ekindi Ndongo, M Koti, C S Ilkow, P O Richard, and L H Tai (2022), Intravesical immunotherapy with a GM-CSF armed oncolytic vesicular stomatitis virus improves outcome in bladder cancer. Molecular Therapy Oncolytics. 24 March 2022;
doi: 10.1016/j.omto.2022.01.009, IF 7.2.
SR Niavarani, C Lawson, M Boudaud, C Simard, LH Tai. (2020), Oncolytic vesicular stomatitis virus-based cellular vaccine improves triple-negative breast cancer outcome by enhancing natural killer and CD8+ T cell functionality. JITC. 15 March 2020; doi: 10.1136/jitc 2019-000465, IF=12.46.
SR Niavarani, C Lawson, O Bakos, M Boudaud, C Batenchuk, S Rouleau and LH Tai. (2019), Lipid accumulation impairs natural killer cell cytotoxicity and tumor control in the postoperative period. BMC Cancer. 20 August 2019; 19:823. doi: 10.1186/s12885-019-6045-y. IF= 4.069.
SR Niavarani, C Lawson, LH Tai. 2019, Treatment of Metastatic Disease through Natural Killer Cell Modulation by Infected Cell Vaccines. Viruses. 11 May (2019),11(5), 434; doi: 10.3390/v11050434. IF= 5.048.
O Simard, SR Niavarani, V Gaudreault, and G Boissonneault. (2017), Torsional stress promotes trinucleotidic expansion in spermatids. Mutat Res. 2017 Apr 9;800-802:1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2017.04.001. [Epub ahead of print]; PMID: 28412438. IF=5.067.
Email: raheleh.niavarani@uhn.ca