Sofia Arshavsky-Graham

Dr. Sofia Graham is a Michael Smith Health Research BC and Conconi Family Foundation BioDevice Innovation Fellow, whose work focuses on developing technologies at the intersection of engineering and biology for cancer research. She recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Dr. Govind Kaigala’s Laboratory of Microtechnologies for Quantitative Biomedicine at the University of British Columbia, where she developed microfluidic platforms that enable spatiotemporal analysis of live cells. Her work explored cancer cell migration and intratumoral heterogeneity in prostate and pancreatic tumours. Dr. Graham earned a dual doctoral degree in biotechnology engineering and technical chemistry from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology and Leibniz University Hannover in Germany, where she designed nanostructured optical biosensors for early detection of pancreatic cancer. She also holds a BSc in Biotechnology and Food Engineering from the Technion. Her current research aims to develop biodevices that model and monitor tumour-immune interactions to uncover mechanisms of immune suppression and support the development of more effective cancer therapies.