Faculty Thesis Advisors available in Fall quarter of 2025/2026
Attaining graduate degrees (M. Sc. or Ph.D.) requires verification of knowledge and skills by completion of graduate work and passing the exams. To define the area of your work and the title of your dissertation, the newly accepted students have to choose and contact the Faculty Advisors. They will guide you and validate that work. The Advisors are Principal Investigators on the projects conducted at the SFU. Depending on the saturation of staff and student resources, the availability of positions changes, e.g., when students graduate and leave. The Following Faculty Advisors are available during the Fall quarter of 2025/2026 Academic Year.
Bruce Fenderson MD PhD
Mechanisms of morphogenesis and malignancy;
role of cell-surface carbohydrates in mediation of cell recognition during development;
use of monoclonal anticarbohydrate antibodies to study lineage formation,
cell differentiation, and neoplastic transformation
Distant learning techniques and strategies.
Marek Malecki, M.D., PhD.
Gene therapy
Genetic susceptibility to cancer
Genetically engineered vaccines and antibodies
Environmental effects on health
PubMed: Malecki M - Search Results - PubMed (nih.gov)
WIPO: WIPO - Search International and National Patent Collections
Michael Light, M.D.
Nutrition
Metabolomics
Obesity
Malnutrition
Emergency Medicine
Sleep apnea
Bronchitis
Pathophysiology of emergency medicine procedures
PubMed: Light M - Search Results - PubMed (nih.gov)
Godfried Roomans, M.D., Ph.D.
Anatomy, histology, patho-morphology
Elemental analysis: x-ray, EDS
Congestive Lung Syndrome
Diagnostic pathology
PubMed: Roomans G - Search Results - PubMed
Example of work shown on the right.
Gianna Scannell, M.D.
Pathophysiology
Emergency Medicine
Pathophysiology
PubMed: Scannell - Search Results - PubMed (nih.gov)
Ming Zhang MD PhD
Epigenome
Transcriptome
Traditional medicine
PubMed: Zhang M - Search Results - PubMed
