Cherry Ng
Cherry Ng is a laboratory technician at the International Arts and Mind Lab dedicated to exploring the intersection of neuroscience, mental health, and the arts. She supports research and outreach at the International Arts + Mind Lab. With a background in clinical mental health counseling and biomedical research, she brings a multidisciplinary approach to her work.
Cherry Ng is a Laboratory Technician for the International Arts + Mind Lab. Her work supports research and outreach initiatives.
Prior to joining the IAM Lab, Cherry’s research interests centred on human development and mental health. She interned at St. Michael’s Hospital, where her research focused on supporting the development of a zebrafish model of treatment-resistant depression using CRISPR/cas9 technology. In 2018, she was selected to be a summer research intern at the Institute of Veterinary Bacteriology in Switzerland under the mentorship of Dr. Nina Wolfrum with scholarship support from the University of Zürich. Cherry’s passion for mental health and wellness is also driven by her internship experience as a hospital chaplain at Loyola University Medical Center in Illinois, a role through which she supported patients in crisis.
As an advocate for mental health and wellness, Cherry holds an M.Sc in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Johns Hopkins University and a B.Sc. in Anatomy and Cell Biology and a minor in English Literature from McGill University. In her free time, she can be found taking walks with her cat, dabbling in photography, and hiking in mountains.