Master's Candidate
McGill University, Canada
Bryan Lung is a master’s candidate in the Department of Surgical and Interventional Sciences at McGill University with a research focus in regenerative medicine and stem cell-based cardiac therapies. He holds a Bachelor of Medical Sciences from Western University, where he developed a strong interdisciplinary foundation in molecular biology, bioinformatics, and translational health research. Currently, under the supervision of Dr. Renzo Cecere at McGill, Bryan is investigating transcriptomic heterogeneity in cardiomyocytes derived from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC-CMs). His work aims to improve the functional maturity of iPSC-CMs for applications in myocardial regeneration and cardiac drug testing modelling. He has secured $79,000 CAD in research funding through the CGS-M, RI-MUHC Studentship, and Québec Santé Sector Master’s Scholarship. His long-term goal is to become a cardiothoracic surgeon-scientist developing next-generation, stem cell-based surgical treatments for heart failure.