Current Positions

Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology & Pathophysiology
Investigator, DREAM, Children's Hospital Research Institute Manitoba.

Education

BSc (Molecular Genetics), University of Alberta
MSc (Molecular Biology), University of Alberta
PhD (Medical Genetics), University of British Columbia
Postdoctoral Fellowship (Beta cell Biology & Diabetes), University of California San Francisco

Research Focus

Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) is a life-long metabolic disease of insulin deficiency affecting around 1 in 300 children in Canada. My research program aims to understand how T1D develops in order to devise new interventions that halt disease progression as well as identify biomarkers to improve disease staging and patient stratification.

Research Interests

- Type 1 Diabetes pathology
- Autoimmunity
- Cellular stress responses
- Epigenetics
- Extracellular vesicles