Committees

TASME's Women in STEM Leadeship Committee

Dr. Arunthi Thiagalingam, PhD., Senior Director, Translational Sciences, IPSEN, Cambridge, USA

Prof. Shyamala Maheswaran, Ph.D., Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; Scientific Director of the Center for CTC Innovation, Massachusetts General Hospital; Co-Founder, TellBio Inc.

Prof. Nades Palaniyar, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (Cincinnati, Oxford, Harvard Medical School), Senior Scientist, Translational Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children and Lab Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Canada.

Prof. Nirusha Thavarajah, M.Ed., LL.M. (IP), Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biochemistry Program Supervisor, Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Women in STEM Leadership Program Coordinator.

Prof. Srisala Navarathnum, MBBS, Ph.D., President and CEO, CancerCare Manitoba and Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba, Canada.

Prof. Seely Premaraj, BDS, Ph.D., Director of Advanced Specialty Education Program in Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics in the College of Dental Medicine at the NOVA Southeastern University (NSU), Florida, USA.

TASME’s Pre-University Poster

Prof. Nades Palaniyar, Senior Scientist and Faculty Member, The Hospital for Sick Children / University of Toronto, Canada

Prof. Bala Maheswaran, Faculty Member, Northeastern University, Boston, USA

Prof. Nirusha Thavarajah, Faculty Member, University of Toronto, Scarborough, Canada

Prof. Sam Thiagalingam, Faculty Member, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA

Prof. Ampalavanar Nanthakumar, Faculty Member, SUNY-Oswego, Oswego, USA

Conference Organizing Committee 2020-2021


Prof. N. (Raj) Rajakumar, MBBS, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept Anatomy and Cell Biology/Psychiatry, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

Prof. C. Vipulanandan (Vipu), PhD, P.E.,  Professor and Director, Director of CIGMAT and THC-IT, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Houston, Texas, USA

Prof. Sam Thiagalingam, PhD, Associate Professor, Boston University School of Medicine, MA, USA

Prof. Shyamala Maheswaran, PhD,  Professor of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Prof. Vishnu Suppiramaniam, D.V.M., PhD, Head and Professor, Departmrnt of Drug Discovery & Development, Harrison School of Pharmacy, Auburn University, AL, USA

Prof. Nanda Ganesan, Department of Information Systems, California State University at Los Angles, California (CA), USA

Prof. Nirusha Thavarajah, Ph.D., University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Dr. Haridas Kumarakuru, Ph.D., Wentworth University, Boston, USA

Prof. Ramani Kandiah, Central State University, Ohio, USA

Nilasha Thayalan, MD student, University of Ottawa, Canada

Past TASME Chairs

Prof. N. (Raj) Rajakumar, MBBS, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept Anatomy and Cell Biology/Psychiatry, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

Prof. C. Vipulanandan (Vipu), PhD, P.E.,  Professor and Director, Director of CIGMAT and THC-IT, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Houston, Texas, USA

Prof. Sam Thiagalingam, PhD, Associate Professor, Boston University School of Medicine, MA, USA

Prof. Vishnu Suppiramaniam, D.V.M., PhD, Head and Professor, Departmrnt of Drug Discovery & Development, Harrison School of Pharmacy, Auburn University, AL, USA

Dr. Nathan Yoganathan, PhD, Toronto, Canada

Past Committee Members

Dr Prem Kumarathasan, PhD, Head and Senior Research Scientist, Analytical Biochemistry and Proteomics Laboratory, Health Canada, Ottawa, Canada

Dr Renaud Vincent, PhD, Head and Senior Research Scientist, Inhalation Toxicology Laboratory, Health Canada, Ottawa, Canada

Mrs Bavani Rajakumar, MSc, University of Western Ontario, Canada

Dr Jeya Nadesalingam, PhD, University of Toronto, Canada

Dr Arunthi Thiagalingam, PhD, Vice-President, Translational Biology, IPSEN  Biomeasure Inc, Milford, USA

Dr Ben Jeyaretnam, MBA, PhD, Deputy Director and Unit Head, Analytical Process and Technology, Sanofi Pasteur, Swiftwater, Philadelphia, USA

Prof. Vathany Kulasingam, PhD, Assistant Professor at Dept of Lab Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Canada

Prof. R. Cheran, PhD, Associate professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada