His lab is part of the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology-Oncology at the McGill University Health Centre – Montreal Children’s Hospital. He completed his PhD in Dr. Irene Andrulis’ lab (University of Toronto) where he identified novel genes that drive the development of solid cancers such as sarcomas and colorectal carcinoma. He followed this with a postdoctoral fellowship at the University Health Network, Toronto, in Dr. John Dick’s laboratory. While there he studied the gene programs that regulate cancer stem cells.