Laura Evgin

Dr. Laura Evgin is a Scientist in the Genome Sciences Department at the BC Cancer Research Institute (BCCRI) and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She earned her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Ottawa under the guidance of Dr. John Bell, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where she worked with Dr. Richard Vile. In 2020, Dr. Evgin established her research group at the BCCRI, focusing on enhancing the efficacy and accessibility of T cell therapies for cancer treatment. Dr. Evgin's laboratory leverages diverse tools and model systems to design innovative chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) constructs, develop CAR T cell engineering strategies both ex vivo and in vivo, and evaluate CAR T cell function in immune-competent models of cancer and autoimmune diseases.