Haeryfar Lab

Happy Birthday to our favourite Junior National Taekwondo Champion 🥋

Starting the new year off strong with the birthdays of some of our most favourite people! Happy Birthday Claudia and Jiajia!

IIRF 2025 was a busy day for the Haeryfar Lab Super proud of our students who presented posters and our thesis student Jiajia who had her first ever oral talk! @westernuMNI @SchulichMedDent @WesternU

Our very own @haeryfar has been featured on the latest episode of The Catalysts. Check out the full video here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=jE18cr… - - - - @SchulichMedDent @westernuMNI @WesternU

the newest generation of MAIT cell scientists 👩🏻‍🔬 @westernuMNI @SchulichMedDent

Our two amazing senior PhD candidates Nicole and Rashed presented at seminar today! @westernuMNI @WesternU @SchulichMedDent

HOCO 🏈 + apple-picking 🍎 = the perfect fall weekend @WesternU #HOCO2025 #TwinPinesOrchards

New #JITC article: MAIT cells promote cancer progression and regulatory T cell accumulation in bladder tumor microenvironment bit.ly/4gyafr8 @MelissaJHuynh @AlpSener2 @haeryfar

Excited to share our new paper in ⁦@jitcancer⁩. We demonstrate that #MAIT cells are present in #bladder tumors where they exhibit a MAIT17 phenotype, promoting #Treg accumulation & cancer progression.⁩ ⁦@SchulichMedDent⁩ ⁦@WesternU_CTCR jitc.bmj.com/content/13/9/e…

🗓️Save the Date🗓️ Join us November 5, 2025 for the 19th Annual Infection & Immunity Research Forum! 🎙️ Keynote: Dr. Phillip Sherman 📝 Abstracts due Oct 3, 2025 @IIRFWesternU @SchulichMedDent #WesternU

Publication Alert📢 Check out our latest article in @jitcancer where we investigate the role of #MAIT cells in #BladderCancer. jitc.bmj.com/content/13/9/e… @westernuMNI @SchulichMedDent @WesternU @WesternU_CTCR

Busy day for our lab at today’s department award ceremony! Congratulations Val, Marko, Claudia, Angela, Rashed and Agetha for your amazing achievements 🎉 @westernuMNI @SchulichMedDent @WesternU

The ⁦@HaeryfarLab⁩ photo, circa 2025

Haeryfar Lab goes international!! 🌍 This week our amazing PhD candidate Nicole is at the International Congress of Immunology in Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹 #IUIS2025 @iuis_online @westernuMNI #WesternU

To stay in touch with colleagues & friends who have recently left X, I just created a Bluesky account (@haeryfar.bsky.social). Our scientists-in-training are also beginning to share lab news through this platform (@haeryfarlab.bsky.social). Let’s reconnect.

Happy Birthday Agetha!

Happy Birthday Marko 🥳

From exploring a surprising new ally in the fight against bladder cancer to a world-first asthma study, #WesternU researchers attract more than $15M in federal funding from @CIHR_IRSC. @SchulichMedDent @westernuFHS @westernuSocSci news.westernu.ca/2025/07/cihr-p…

our lovely undergrads (Roanna and Jiajia) working hard in the lab this summer!

Absolutely honoured to announce that our lab has been awarded a 5-year CIHR grant supporting our project on bladder cancer 🎉 Thank you to @CIHR_IRSC for the continued support in our research!! #WesternU #WesternResearch #CIHR @SchulichMedDent @WesternU @westernuMNI