LATEST NEWS (01/05/11):

I have been awarded a highly competitive National Fellowship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). This is a 3 year fellowship awarded to only the top 14% of those who applied.

I am the co-author of a paper that was just accepted to the Journal Blood.

I have been awarded the Lady Tata Memorial Trust Fellowship. This is a highly competitive international award for research in Leukemia.

My aritcle in the journal Blood is in the June 10 issue.

My abstract was selected as the best abstract in the basic science category! I will be presenting this abstract at the 3rd Annual Hematology Research Day in Toronto.

I am co-authour on an abstract that has been selected for a poster presentation at the AACR conference in Washington.

We have filed a patent on the anti-cancer drug combination I have been working on! (for details see ``publications``)

I presented and received excellent feedback from my poster presentation at the American Society of Hematology Conference in New Orleans.

I spoke and volunteered at the Canadian Cancer Society's Relay for Life on June 19.