I was originally trained as a medical doctor and had the privilege of helping patients in their journey to recovery. The work was interesting, but I had a passion for science and wanted to do something more innovative, which led me to pursue scientific research. I focused my Masters on heart failure and studied the effects of drugs in heart failure patients. As a trained cardiologist, I decided to continue research on the heart as I pursued my PhD in pharmacology in Sweden. I investigated the sympathetic regulation of cardiovascular and renal function in rats with experimental heart failure post myocardial infarction. Following my post-doctoral research on vascular function, I started my research lab at Victoria Research Laboratory, Lawson Health Research Institute before moving my lab here at Western. It’s extremely rewarding to discover molecular mechanisms of heart disease, identify new drug targets to treat heart failure, and to see your research go into clinical trials.