Ms. Angela Chan is a Research Scientist and Scientific & Operations Lead of the Functional Tissue Imaging Unit at the Cancer Translational Research Core, Cancer Care Alberta, and an Adjunct Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Oncology at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. She received her Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry, with minors in Applied Mathematics and Chemistry, and Master of Science in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Calgary.
Angela began her career as a research associate at a local biotech company where she developed skills in pharmaceutical ingredient purifications. In 2009, she returned to the public sector and joined Genetic Laboratory Services as a Medical Laboratory Technologist, where she specialized in clinical molecular testing and assay development. She later served as a Research Associate in the Translational Laboratories and Biospecimen Processing Laboratory, leading biobanking and biomarker discovery projects. Since 2017, she has led the scientific direction of the Functional Tissue Imaging Unit, focusing on biomarker assay development, multiplex immunofluorescence, digital pathology, and machine learning applications in oncology. She played a key role in achieving clinical accreditation for novel diagnostics, including automated Ki67 digital analysis for breast cancer recurrence prediction.
Her research focuses on precision oncology, biomarker discovery, clinical implementation, immune profiling, and tumor microenvironment analysis across multiple cancer types. She is an active member of several national and international consortia, including the Terry Fox Research Institute’s Marathon of Hope Cancer Centres Network, where she chairs the validation study of the immune profiling validation working group.