Research Interests: Diabetic individuals cannot properly produce and/or secrete insulin, or use it appropriately. This chronic disease which afflicts approximately 3 million Canadians is associated with many debilitating and often fatal complications including heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, and impaired vision. The immense complexity of the disease has prompted our lab to take different approaches to investigate diabetes. In doing so, we aim to develop novel therapeutic strategies to treat and even cure Type 1 diabetes (T1D) and Type 2 diabetes (T2D).