Aiea Mansour, MSc

Aiea Mansour, MSc has held various roles in the medical and research fields. In 2018, they were the President of the Biology Students' Association at the University of Calgary, where they also served as an Undergraduate Student Researcher. Additionally, they were a Chemistry Tutor for Students Offering Support (SOS) in the same year. In 2019, they were a Research Assistant at Qatar University, where they worked on creating a model organism for Left Atrial Ligation and characterizing a protein responsible for certain heart defects in Zebrafish. Aiea also served as an Undergraduate Student Researcher at the University of Calgary in 2018, where they worked to determine the optimum conditions for the storage and cultivation of H. polygyrus. In 2021, they were a Research Assistant at Forbius, where they worked on biomarker selection and assay validation to support indication selection. Aiea also validated two quantitative assays in plasma samples for peripheral biomarker candidates and supported indication selection through designing and conducting a bioinformatic study. In 2022, they were a Research Associate I at Providence Therapeutics and an Associate Scientist I at Nexelis, a Q² Solutions Company.

Aiea Mansour, MSc completed a Bachelor of Science - BSc in Cellular Molecular and Microbial Biology from the University of Calgary from 2017 to 2020. Prior to that, they attended the University of Ottawa from 2016 to 2017 for Biomedical Sciences. Currently, they are pursuing a Master of Science - MSc in Biotechnology from McGill University.