• The Lend a Hand Foundation was created by a group of close friends with an aim to give back to the community. The organization's primary focus is to promote a high-level of youth involvement who would help raise funds and create care packages (which included hygienic products, food, and other essential materials) to poverty-stricken destitute individuals in underserved communities.

• Exploring cancer biomarkers for early detection of liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma) by quantifying a protein expressed in the blood plasma.• Project involves the use of various statistical models such as: Friedman test (non-parametric ANOVA), Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient test (nonparametric measure of rank correlation test), receiver operating curve (ROC), and one-way multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA).

• Responsible for community outreach and external political events of the Society which involve lobbying on behalf of the Graduate Student Society (GSS) at the municipal, provincial, and federal level.• Affiliated organizations: Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA), Alliance of BC Students (ABCS), THINKGradConferences Attended:• Mental Health Literacy: Dr. Stan Kutcher (Sun Life Financial Chair in Adolescent Mental Health and the Director World Health Organization Collaborating Centre in Mental Health Policy and Training) - at UBC in May, 2018• CASA Foundations Conference - in Ottawa in May, 2018• Leadership Dialogue with Dr. Alma Clayton-Pedersen (Chief Executive Officer of Emeritus Consulting Group) - at UBC in May, 2018• CASA Advocacy Week - in Ottawa in November, 2018• ABCS Advocacy Week - in Victoria, BC in November, 2018• CASA Annual General Meeting - in Halifax, NS in March, 2019• THINKGrad Conference - in Montreal, QC in April, 2019Workshops Completed:• ABCS Grant-Seeking• ABCS BudgetingEvents Attended:• Commemoration of Joseph Koerner Plaque (May, 2018)

• Representing the Department of Medicine on decisions affecting graduate students.• Assess the overall direction and strategy the university should proceed. Aim to have a mutually beneficial impact for all parties in conflict.

• One-on-one tutoring sessions with students• Variety of subjects taught such as: mathematics, biology, and chemistry• Increased a students test average by ~25% ±5% in mathematics and ~20% ±5% in chemistry

• A program designed for students who are interested in experimental and chemical research.• The goal of the project was to design metabolic reporters that allow us to evaluate the binding of chemically stable inhibitors to the SH2 domain of the STAT3/5 protein. Over-expression of this protein has been known to cause malignant growth in vivo (cancer in the body).• Highly competitive program that requires departmental approval, a good GPA, and an arrangement with two supervisors.

• Creating a safe environment for the Graduate students to conduct their research.• Maintaining and sterilizing lab equipment such as pipetting machines, pH meters,centrifuges, and hot plates.• Ensuring laboratory is stocked with supplies to perform reactions.• Further duties include: creating LB broth and plates, autoclaving equipment,nourishment of specimens, and organization of tools.

• Leukemia, a cancer of the blood, has a poor prognosis with current treatments having high incidence of systemic toxicity and development of resistance. Defined as immature white blood stem cells that uncontrollably reproduce, STAT5 plays a major role in the progression and maintenance of this cancer, inducing the continual production of these leukemic stem cells. With STAT5 being validated as an important diagnostic marker in the governance of stem cell fate, targeted therapeutics designed to block this protein’s activity may provide for an effective strategy in counteracting the overproduction of white blood cells. The Gunning Group was the first to report a rationally designed therapeutic, with great specificity for the STAT5 protein. They identified AC-3-019 as the most potent STAT5 inhibitor reported to date. In this proposal, we aim to use medicinal chemistry to rationally optimize AC-3-019 to identify a hit-to-lead compound, suitable for advanced preclinical trials. The long-term objective is to identify an analog of AC-3-019 with increased half-life and in vivo stability for clinical application.• I assisted in the synthesis and characterization of a library of second-generation inhibitors at the University of Toronto Mississauga (Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences). Inhibitors were evaluated for biological activity via fluorescence polarization assays.

• Selected by the Centre for International Exchange (CIE) to represent the University of Toronto on a national scale by conducting research at Cardiff University.• Project involved the synthesis of organic metabolic reporters, which monitored the addition of N-acetylglucosamine to the hydroxyl group of serine or threonine residues on intracellular proteins.• Malfunction of this process is known to be associated with the development of cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s.• Full scholarship awarded by Centre for International Experience.

• Employed as cash coordinator, which has the responsibility for providing all functions relative to making, issuing, counting and auditing cashier change funds throughout the entire park.• This job required exceptional time management and organizational skills in order to distribute master tills in the appropriate amount of time, due to the fast paced environment.• Process and handle in over $75 000 of cash everyday which involves a high level of integrity and trust between co-workers.