Gillian Vandekerkhove

Dr. Gillian Vandekerkhove is an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC), and senior research scientist at the Vancouver Prostate Centre. She completed her PhD and postdoctoral training at UBC with a focus on genitourinary cancer genomics. Her translational research aims to advance plasma- and urine-based liquid biopsy technologies to develop minimally invasive biomarkers and generate biological insights into urothelial cancer. Dr. Vandekerkhove leverages next-generation sequencing and computational techniques to enable precision oncology and improve outcomes for urothelial cancer patients.