April Rose lab

April Rose, MD, PhD, FRCPC

Principal Investigator

Dr. April Rose is a clinician scientist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Oncology at McGill University. She is a staff Medical Oncologist at the Segal Cancer Centre of the Jewish General Hospital (CIUSSS West-Central Montreal) and a Principal Investigator at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research. 

Dr. Rose obtained her PhD in Experimental Medicine from McGill University. During this time she identified GPNMB as a novel mediator of breast cancer metastasis. She went on to obtain her medical degree from McGill University where she also completed residency training in Internal Medicine. She went on to pursue residency training in Medical Oncology at the University of Toronto, followed by a fellowship in clinical and translational oncology at the Princess Margaret Cancer Center.

Dr. Rose has clinical interests in melanoma and genitourinary cancers. Her research interests are in molecular and translational oncology as well as in the development of novel immunogenomic therapies for treatment resistant cancers.

Dr. Rose is also a mom to 3 kids and 2 dogs and in her leisure time she enjoys sleeping.

Team RoseLab

Lab Manager

Dr. Huijie Wang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Melody Riaud

Evaluating novel therapeutic approaches for Class 2 BRAF mutant cancers.

PhD Student

Jennifer Maxwell

Evaluating novel therapeutic approaches for Class 3 BRAF mutant cancers

PhD Student

Chantel Mukonoweshuro

Exploring the role of RAS mutations in therapeutic resistance

MSc Student

Sadaf Solati

Defining the relationship between NRAS mutations and the tumor immune microenvironment in melanoma

PhD Student

Emmanuelle Rousselle

Characterizing the genomic and clinical landscape of tumors with MAPK pathway mutations.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Islam Elkholi

Characterizing the functional interactome of BRAF mutant cancers

Medical Oncology Fellow

Dr. Soumaya Labidi

Evaluating mechanisms of treatment response and resistance in genitourinary cancers

Undergraduates

BSc Student

Meghan Vrkoc

Current Role: BSc student, Queen's University


2024
BEng Student

Sara Fraser

Current Role: BEng student, McGill University

2024

Former Lab Members

Postdoctoral Fellow

Isabel Soria Bretones
Current Role: Principal Scientist, Repare Therapeutics

2021-2022
BSc Student

Erica Cianfarano

Current Role: PhD student, McGill University

2021-2022
BSc student

Rania Khan
Current Role: BSc student, McGill University

2023
MDCM Student

Lucy An

Current Role: MDCM student, McGill University

2023-24
BSc student

Shirin Rhaimipour Anaraki
Current Role: MSc student, Universite de Montreali

2023-24
BSc student

Marini Jayasekera

Current Role: MDCM student, McGill University

2022
MDCM Student

Alicia Belaiche
Current Role: MDCM student, McGill University

2021
MDCM Student

Peter Tai

Current Role: MDCM student, McGill University

2021
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