Navroop Dhaliwal is a mentor in the 2024 SURFiN program. She is a postdoctoral fellow in Yun Li’s lab at The Hospital for Sick Children. Dhaliwal holds a bachelor’s degree in applied genetics from Bangalore University and a doctorate in cellular, molecular and systems biology from the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on combining gene editing and human pluripotent stem cell based 2D and 3D model systems to study the biology of neural development and disease in human context.

Principal Investigator: Yun Li