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Maryam Faiz

ResearcherSurgeryUniversity of Toronto

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Maryam Faiz

Researcher

Surgery

Health Sciences

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
10 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 3 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 4 research grants (2 CIHR, 2 NSERC), most recently in 2024.
Supervised 2 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2025.

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Research

Astrocytes Stroke Gut Microbiota Transcriptomics Cns Direct Reprogramming Patch-Seq Transgenic Animals

Latest papers

Spatially resolved transcriptomics identifies intercellular signaling post-ischemic stroke that controls neural stem cell proliferation.
Stem cell reports · 2026
ACSA2 is not astrocyte-specific: implications for cell sorting strategies in the rodent brain.
Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2026 · senior author
Post-stroke butyrate treatment shows sex-dependent microglial responses but does not improve outcomes in a mouse model of endothelin-1 sensory motor stroke.
BMC neuroscience · 2025

All 14 publications

Latest funding

Investigating Diversity of Astrocytes: Linking Ventricular/Subventricular Zone Progenitor Birthdate to Functional Outcomes
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
$120,000
The gut microbiota-astrocyte axis in stroke
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
$1,143,675
gut-microbiota-astrocyte axis in stroke
CIHR · 2023 · Supervisor
$105,000

All 7 grants and awards

14 publications.

Spatially resolved transcriptomics identifies intercellular signaling post-ischemic stroke that controls neural stem cell proliferation.

Huang H, Daniele E, Lam WCJ, Tockovska T, Lozano Casasbuenas D, Chanphao H, Treanor B, Faiz M, Yuzwa SA

Stem cell reports2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2026.102922 PMID: 42140198

ACSA2 is not astrocyte-specific: implications for cell sorting strategies in the rodent brain.

Daniele E, Khelifi G, Beretta D, Tsankov BK, Bang KWA, Beretta C, Philpott DJ, Hussein SM, Faiz M

Frontiers in cellular neuroscience2026Senior author

DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2026.1756677 PMID: 41788196

Post-stroke butyrate treatment shows sex-dependent microglial responses but does not improve outcomes in a mouse model of endothelin-1 sensory motor stroke.

de Witte A, Montoya Sanchez J, Daniele E, Chen J, Fan Y, Khatri P, Lozano Casasbuenas D, Zhang A, Todd KG, Faiz M, Churchward M

BMC neuroscience2025

DOI: 10.1186/s12868-025-00959-3 PMID: 40676515

The laminar position, morphology, and gene expression profiles of cortical astrocytes are influenced by time of birth from ventricular/subventricular progenitors.

Lozano Casasbuenas D, Kortebi I, Gora C, Scott EY, Gomes C, Oliveira MS, Sharma T, Daniele E, Olfat A, Gibbs R, Yuzwa SA, Gilbert EA, Küry P, Wheeler AR, Lévesque M, Faiz M

Glia2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1002/glia.24578 PMID: 38852127

Star power: harnessing the reactive astrocyte response to promote remyelination in multiple sclerosis.

Silva Oliveira Junior M, Reiche L, Daniele E, Kortebi I, Faiz M, Küry P

Neural regeneration research2024

DOI: 10.4103/1673-5374.380879 PMID: 37721287

Integrating single-cell and spatially resolved transcriptomic strategies to survey the astrocyte response to stroke in male mice.

Scott EY, Safarian N, Casasbuenas DL, Dryden M, Tockovska T, Ali S, Peng J, Daniele E, Nie Xin Lim I, Bang KWA, Tripathy S, Yuzwa SA, Wheeler AR, Faiz M

Nature communications2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45821-y PMID: 38383565

Digital Microfluidics for Microproteomic Analysis of Minute Mammalian Tissue Samples Enabled by a Photocleavable Surfactant.

Chan C, Peng J, Rajesh V, Scott EY, Sklavounos AA, Faiz M, Wheeler AR

Journal of proteome research2023

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.3c00281 PMID: 37651704

Highly efficient reprogrammable mouse lines with integrated reporters to track the route to pluripotency.

Elbaz J, Puri MC, Faiz M, Bang KWA, Nguyen L, Makovoz B, Gertsenstein M, Hussein SMI, Zandstra PW, Briollais L, Shakiba N, Nagy A

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2207824119 PMID: 36454756

Ascl1 phospho-site mutations enhance neuronal conversion of adult cortical astrocytes in vivo.

Ghazale H, Park E, Vasan L, Mester J, Saleh F, Trevisiol A, Zinyk D, Chinchalongporn V, Liu M, Fleming T, Prokopchuk O, Klenin N, Kurrasch D, Faiz M, Stefanovic B, McLaurin J, Schuurmans C

Frontiers in neuroscience2022

DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.917071 PMID: 36061596

Signal requirement for cortical potential of transplantable human neuroepithelial stem cells.

Varga BV, Faiz M, Pivonkova H, Khelifi G, Yang H, Gao S, Linderoth E, Zhen M, Karadottir RT, Hussein SM, Nagy A

Nature communications2022

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29839-8 PMID: 35606347

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Maryam Faiz

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Spatially resolved transcriptomics identifies intercellular signaling post-ischemic stroke that controls neural stem cell proliferation.

ACSA2 is not astrocyte-specific: implications for cell sorting strategies in the rodent brain.

Post-stroke butyrate treatment shows sex-dependent microglial responses but does not improve outcomes in a mouse model of endothelin-1 sensory motor stroke.

The laminar position, morphology, and gene expression profiles of cortical astrocytes are influenced by time of birth from ventricular/subventricular progenitors.

Star power: harnessing the reactive astrocyte response to promote remyelination in multiple sclerosis.

Integrating single-cell and spatially resolved transcriptomic strategies to survey the astrocyte response to stroke in male mice.

Digital Microfluidics for Microproteomic Analysis of Minute Mammalian Tissue Samples Enabled by a Photocleavable Surfactant.

Highly efficient reprogrammable mouse lines with integrated reporters to track the route to pluripotency.

Ascl1 phospho-site mutations enhance neuronal conversion of adult cortical astrocytes in vivo.

Signal requirement for cortical potential of transplantable human neuroepithelial stem cells.

Investigating Diversity of Astrocytes: Linking Ventricular/Subventricular Zone Progenitor Birthdate to Functional Outcomes

The gut microbiota-astrocyte axis in stroke

gut-microbiota-astrocyte axis in stroke

Understanding astrocyte heterogeneity

The role of the iNeuron in reprogramming-mediated brain repair

Understanding astrocyte heterogeneity

Investigating molecular mechanisms controlling the developmental emergence and maintenance of adult neural stem cells.

Frequent collaborators

Andras Nagy

Nika Shakiba

Bojana Stefanovic

Deborah Kurrasch

Laurent Briollais

Bebhinn Treanor

Joanne McLaurin

Carol Schuurmans

Mei Zhen

Shreejoy Tripathy