She is cross-appointed to the department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology (LMP), Faculty of Medicine. Her lab studies the vascular dissemination mechanisms of bloodborne bacteria, in particular the causative agent of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi. The lab is supported by nearly $2.4 million in operating and infrastructure funds from NSERC, CIHR, the NSERC/CIHR co-funded CHRP program, CFI/ORF, the University of Toronto Connaught Fund and the Banting Research Foundation. In 2012 she was awarded the CIHR Bhagirath Singh Early Career Award in Infection and Immunity for 2011.