Professor at the Departments of Physiology & Pharmacology and Pediatrics, University of Calgary, and UCalgary Research Excellence Chair
Major Achievements:
Over $13M in research funding; h-index of 40 with 11,000+ citations
Supervisor of over 40 trainees across career stages
Leader of the Alberta BLOOM Study on microbiome development in preterm infants
Published in Nature Communications, Cell Host & Microbe, Gut, and Science Translational Medicine
Author of best-selling public science book Let Them Eat Dirt
Recipient of numerous awards, including the CIHR–SickKids New Investigator Award (2018), Killam Emerging Research Leader Award (2020), and election to the Royal Society of Canada (2023)
Current Interests:
Translational research on the early-life gut microbiome and its role in immune, metabolic, and neurodevelopmental health
Development of microbiome-informed interventions in pediatrics
