CV

Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmacology with Professor Edith Sim

University of Oxford

• Identified, expressed and characterized a hydrolytic enzyme involved in cholesterol metabolism as a novel drug target against Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
• Received the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postgraduate Scholarship

Bachelor of Science, Microbiology and Immunology

University of British Columbia

• Conducted research with Professor Wilf Jefferies to characterize TAP-dependent antigen presentation in cancerous cells.

Senior Research Scientist

Vancouver Prostate Centre, Vancouver, Canada

• Assistant Professor in Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia
• Co-director of the VPC Drug Design and Pharmacology core
• Research program focused on study characterizing androgen receptor and HOXB13 mechanism of action in aggressive prostate cancer
• Characterized epigenetic modifying enzymes as a mechanism of therapeutic resistance

Assistant/Associate Professor

Koc University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey

• Founded an androgen receptor laboratory at one of the leading university in Turkey with a focus on developing innovative functional genomic techniques to study prostate cancer.
• Developed the undergraduate molecular biology and biochemistry education program.

Postdoctoral Fellow with Professors Paul Rennie, Art Cherkasov and Emma Guns

Vancouver Prostate Centre, Vancouver, Canada

• Identified and characterized novel androgen receptor inhibitors using in silico screening combined with biochemical and cell-based high-throughput assays.
• Awarded the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Postdoctoral Fellowship.

• Turkish Science Academy - Young Scientist Award

• TUBA-GEBIP Award

• VCHRI Rising Star Scientific Award

• Lorne Sullivan - Best Basic Science Research Award