Ruhangiz Kilani

Biography

Ruhi Kilani is a Senior Research Associate at the BC Professional Firefighters’ Burn and Wound Healing Research Group and is a co-inventor of 14-3-3η. Dr. Kilani has (co)-published over 60 peer reviewed papers, and presented 70 abstracts at national and international conferences. Dr. Kilani graduated with a M.Sc. degree in 1975 from the School of Public Health at the University of Tehran, Iran. At the University of Manitoba School of Medicine, Department of Medical Microbiology, Dr. Kilani received a Ph.D. in 1990 and completed her post-doctoral training at the Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta from 1990-1993. She then joined the Department of Immunology, at the University of Alberta as a Research Associate, under supervision of Dr. Larry Guilbert. In 2005, Dr. Kilani joined the BC professional Firefighters’ Burn and Wound Healing Research Group, at the Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, University of British Columbia and since then she is acting as a Senior Research Associate and Manager of the Laboratory.

Research Interest

Biochemistry