Principal investigator
Anita Layton, PhD, University of Toronto
Canada 150 Research Chair in Mathematical Biology and Medicine
Associate Dean, Research and International, Mathematics
Professor of Applied Mathematics
Professor of Computer Science
Professor of Pharmacy
Professor of Biology
Dr Layton joined the University of Waterloo in 2018. Before then, she held the position of the Robert R. and Katherine B. Penn Professor of Mathematics, and Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine at Duke University. She is the Deputy Editor of the American Journal of Physiology--Renal Physiology, Associate Editor of SIAM Review Book Section, and Associate Editor of the SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems. She also serves as the Associate Dean, Research and International, for the Faculty of Mathematics, and chairs the Research Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Council at the University of Waterloo.
Postdoctoral fellows
Sameed Ahmed
PhD, University of South Carolina
Dr Ahmed obtained his PhD in Mathematics from the University of South Carolina and joined the Layton lab in 2018. He develops sex-specific quantitative systems biology models for long-term blood pressure regulation to evaluate the effectiveness of antihypertensive drugs..
Rui Hu
PhD, North Carolina State University
Dr Hu obtained his PhD in Mathematics from the North Carolina State University and joined the Layton lab in 2018. He develops sex-specific computational models for epithelial transport along the rat nephron.
Graduate students
Mehrshad Sadria
MMath candidate
Project: Modeling metabolic pathways in aging
Stephanie Abo
PhD candidate
Project: Dynamical systems, circadian clock and immune system
William Bell
MMath candidate
Project: Modeling mitochrondrial bioenergetics
Anderson White
MMath candidate
Project: Sex-specific models of human physiology
Delaney Smith
MMath candidate
Project: Obesity and blood pressure regulation
Melissa Stadt
MMath candidate
Project: Kidney function in pregnancy
Matt Wiens
MMath candidate
Project: Human physiology simulations
Undergraduate research assistants
Stephanie Ryall, 2020
Ayo Lekuti, 2020
Julia Li (Nanjing University), 2018-2019
Amelia Kunze, 2019
Wentao Xie, 2019
Jing Yang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), 2019
