Alex is the Research Funding, Awards and Honours Officer in the Office of the Vice Dean, Research & Health Science Education in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine. Here, she helps faculty to write strong and persuasive proposals for CIHR and other funding opportunities. Alex has a PhD in Evolutionary Biology; her research focused on exploring the transmission of nongenetic traits across generations. She has many years of experience helping STEM graduate students improve their academic writing; in addition to teaching the Writing CIHR Proposals course, she previously served as the Course Instructor for the Writing NSERC Proposals course, a Lead Writing TA, the Research Analyst for the Writing Instruction for TAs program, and a Research Analyst in Curriculum Development.