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Dr. Emilia Lim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of British Columbia's Faculty of Medicine, with an investigator role at the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging. She specializes in computational analysis of environmental exposures, particularly pollution, in age-related diseases like cancer.
Education:
- BSc from University of Alberta (2009)
- PhD from University of British Columbia (2016)
- Postdoctoral training at Francis Crick Research Institute, University College London (2023)
Her research integrates multi-omic approaches (genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics) to investigate how environmental pollutants drive disease states in samples like cancer patients. Recent work focuses on lung cancer evolution, immune evasion, and epigenetic aging under pollution exposure, with applications in precision oncology and healthy aging initiatives across Canada.
Publications highlight her expertise in cancer genomics, environmental toxicology, and computational biology, with key contributions to understanding air pollution-induced carcinogenesis (2023) and subclonal tumor dynamics (2020, 2023). Her lab develops tools like SPRINTER for single-cell cancer evolution analysis and explores haplotype-specific copy number in tumor heterogeneity (Refphase, 2023).
