Poon Ho Yee Audrey

  • Fellowship in 2006 at Harvard University

Currently

Dr. Audrey Ho Yee Poon obtained her B.Sc and Ph.D degrees from McGill University in the department of biochemistry.  She was awarded the Croucher Foundation fellowship which allowed her to pursue her postdoctoral fellowship at Channing Laboratory, Harvard Medical School in 2006.  After a three-year maternity leave, she was awarded the McGill University Health Centre Strauss Chair in Respiratory Medicine Fellowship which allowed her to pursue a second postdoctoral fellowship at the Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University.  Other awards which Dr.Poon has received include the American Thoracic Society Travel Awards and the Angelina and Rudolph Pietrangeli Memorial award.  She is now a research associate at McGill University Health Centre.

Dr. Poon's research mainly focuses on asthma pathogenesis.  While her doctoral and postdoctoral work centered on asthma genetics, her later and present research focuses on the pathology of asthma.  In particular, she is investigating the role of autophagy, one type of cellular recycling process, in airway remodeling of asthmatic individuals.