Katie Houlahan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences (BBS) and a Principal Investigator at the Centre for Discovery in Cancer Research (CDCR) at McMaster University. Katie completed her PhD at the University of Toronto followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. During her training, Katie was awarded both the CIHR Vanier Scholarship and Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship. In 2024, she was named an American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) NextGen Star and received the Gairdner Early Career Investigator Award.