Research Summary
I'm a physician-scientist who sees prostate cancer patients, and runs a prostate cancer-focused research lab. Our focus is in understanding hormone-related tumor evolution and dynamics. Understanding how tumors shift their dependencies and identity during therapy is critical to improving patients' clinical care.
Research Funding
September 15, 2023 - August 31, 2028 - Simulating Ancestrally Unbiased Tumor Evolution to Interrogate Drug Resistance , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH Common Fund, Sponsor Award ID: DP2CA290244
July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2026 - Interrogating tumor sub-clonality and shifting dependencies to reduce castration therapy , . Sponsor: American Cancer Society, Sponsor Award ID: RSG-22-021-01-CDP
June 20, 2023 - June 19, 2026 - Profiling and Eliminating Tumor Subclones Destined for Resistance , . Sponsor: DOD Prostate Cancer Program, Sponsor Award ID: P0563731
September 15, 2018 - August 31, 2023 - Investigating How a Balance of Negative and Positive ETS Factors Controls Prostate Oncogenesis , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: K08CA226348
Education
University of Saskatchewan, BSc Dble Honors, 04/1999, Biochemistry, Microbiology & Immunology
University of Toronto, MD, 06/2008, Medicine
University of Toronto, PhD, 11/2008, Molecular Genetics, Jeff Wrana’s Lab
Weill Cornell Medicine, Resident, 06/2010, Internal Medicine, Medical Research Track
Memorial Sloan Kettering, Clinical Fellow, 06/2016, Medical Oncology, Medical Research Track
Memorial Sloan Kettering, Postdoctoral Fellow, 05/2018, Human Oncology, Charles Sawyers’ Lab