I am currently working with Stephen Montgomery at Stanford University, where I hold a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship.

I completed my PhD in Pharmacology at Western University in London, Canada with Richard Kim and Rommel Tirona. During my doctoral training, I was a Vanier Scholar.

Prior to that, I attended Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada where I completed a Bachelor’s degree in biomedical computing. My honours thesis project was supervised by Susan Cole.

Research

My research interests lie in understanding interindividual variability in drug response. To date, I have focused on drug transport protein function, mediated by both genetic and non-genetic factors, as a mechanism of interindividual variability in drug response.

I have also worked on structure-function relationships of drug transporters, particularly the organic anion transporting polypeptides (OATPs) and multidrug resistance-associated proteins (MRPs).

My current focus is on the function of non-coding genetic variation and how it influences drug response.

Publications