Quiana Ang, a Master’s graduate student in the Pantophlet Lab, has won a coveted Paraza Travel Award ($500) to attend the 34th Annual Canadian Society for Immunology Conference, to be held from June 17 – 20, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Quiana will be presenting her latest research on the development of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) spike […]
Further steps to understanding conditions for eliciting HIV-neutralizing antibodies with specificity for oligomannose published in @Scientific Reports [article] and highlighted in SFU’s Scholarly Impact of the Week [PDF]
Diana, an Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) recipient in the Pantophlet Lab, presented results from her exciting project on the apparent binding preference of broadly neutralizing antibody precursors to flu hemagglutinin at the remotely held 2021 SFU Undergrad Research Symposium. Diana was recently accepted into the Immunology PhD program at the University of Toronto – […]
Ralph Pantophlet has won the 2021 CAHR-CANFAR Excellence in Research Award in the Basic Science category. This recognition, awarded by the Canadian Association for HIV Research (CAHR) and the Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research (CANFAR), is “intended to highlight and celebrate the contributions of Canadian researchers in HIV/AIDS research in Canada and internationally”. The award […]
#SFU is advancing #COVID-19 related research—from diagnostics to treatment—with more than $1M from @InnovationCA. Congrats to Robert Britton, Robert Young, Masahiro Niikura and Ralph Pantophlet. @SFUResearch @SFU_FHS @SFU_Science https://t.co/bbpi47rKSI pic.twitter.com/Yg5M2whWwT — Simon Fraser University (@SFU) November 6, 2020
A warm welcome to Hajar Chihab, the Pantophlet’s Lab’s newest postdoc. Hajar obtained her PhD in Immunovirology from the Chouaib Doukkali University in El Jadida, Morocco, under the primary supervision of Dr. Soumaya Benjelloun. Her doctoral research encompassed many aspects of host-virus interaction in the context of hepatitis B and C infections, from the study […]
Congratulations to two talented undergrad students in the Pantophlet Lab: Yiqiu Yang and Diana Yang! Both received news recently of their successful Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) applications to the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS). The awards will support them financially as they contribute to ongoing research projects in the lab this Fall (2020). Yiqiu, […]
Vancouver biotech company AbCellera is developing antibodies to treat COVID-19. In the six-minute video below from The Tyee, Ralph Pantophlet is interviewed alongside Véronique Lecault, COO of AbCellera. They explain what antibody treatment is and endeavors to apply it to COVID-19. The video also explains how advances in technology are helping to find and isolate […]
Our latest research contribution to identifying potential hurdles to the elicitation of glycan-specific HIV-neutralizing antibodies has just been published with @SpringerNature in @Scientific Reports! Read here: [article]
