Team
Principal Investigator
Before joining the VPC, Dr. Gibb was Principal Scientist and Bladder Cancer Lead at Veracyte, where he contributed to the development and commercialization of the Decipher Bladder test and the expansion of the Genomic Resource Information Database (GRID).
His current research focuses on bladder tumor heterogeneity and the mechanisms underlying treatment resistance. His lab primarily uses transcriptomic approaches while integrating genomic and imaging technologies through collaborations with clinicians and scientists in Canada, the United States, and internationally.
Current Members
MSc Student
May 2025 - Present
Thu is an MSc student in Bioinformatics at the University of British Columbia, co-supervised by Dr. Ali Bashashati. She completed her undergraduate degree in Statistics with a minor in Data Science at the University of British Columbia and has a background in statistics, machine learning, and bioinformatics. Her current research focuses on non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer, integrating genomic analysis, digital pathology, and machine learning to develop predictive models for tumor detection and prognosis.
co-op student
April 2026 - Present
Ilay is a Bioinformatics student at Langara. His research focuses on analysis of Single-cell RNA and Bulk RNA sequencing data and the application of computational approaches to bladder and prostate cancer. He has worked on elucidating clustering solutions, differential gene expression, trajectory analysis, building RNA sequencing analysis pipelines and analyzing bladder cancer patient cohorts. Through his work, Ilay has gained experience in bioinformatics, machine learning, statistics and cancer genomics.
MSc Student
July 2026 - Present
Kaylee is an MSc student in Bioinformatics at UBC, co-supervised by Dr. Alex Wyatt. She completed her undergraduate degree in Biology with a minor in Data Science at UBC and has a background in cancer genomics, bioinformatics, and computational pipeline development. Her current project focuses on scar-like tissue and treatment-related changes in bladder cancer using computational and spatial profiling approaches. She has also worked on the design and development of the Gibb Lab website.
Phd Student
Incoming Sept 2026!
Tarannom Sadegh is an incoming PhD student joining Gibb Lab in Sept 2026! :)
Lab Alumni
VIRS intern student
May 2025 - Aug 2025
Pauline is an Msc engineering student in Biology and Biotechnology at Polytech Marseille. During her co-op in the Gibb Lab, she investigated the molecular heterogeneity of Gleason score 3+4 prostate cancer using bioinformatics and transcriptomic approaches. Her work focused on clustering patients based on lncRNA expression profiles and analyzing differential gene expression between identified subgroups to better understand tumor aggressiveness.
co-op student
May 2025 - Aug 2025
Winsor is a Computer Science and Microbiology and Immunology student at UBC. During his time in the Gibb Lab, he supported translational genomics research in bladder cancer using computational and bioinformatics approaches. His work included developing RNA-seq processing pipelines, analyzing gene expression data, and applying unsupervised clustering methods to investigate patterns associated with tumor aggressiveness. He also developed clinical data infrastructure and contributed to the design and development of the Gibb Lab website.
co-op student
Jan 2025 - April 2025
Rachel is a Computer Science and Microbiology and Immunology student at UBC. Her research focuses on cancer genomics and the application of computational approaches to bladder cancer. She has worked on developing machine learning models to predict patient prognosis, building RNA sequencing analysis pipelines and databases, and analyzing bladder cancer patient cohorts. Through this work, Rachel has gained experience in bioinformatics, machine learning, and cancer genomics.
