Alysha Croker is currently the acting manager of the Science Strategy team at CIHR where she works on, among other things, the development and implementation of CIHR’s Strategic Action Plan on Health Research Training.
Prior to her manager role, she was a project manager on the Reforms Team where she supported the design and implementation of CIHR’s new Open Suite of Programs and peer review enhancements at CIHR, focusing on re-writing CIHR’s funding policies and analyzing the results of the Project and Foundation scheme pilot competitions.
Alysha holds a PhD in cell biology from the University of Western Ontario and has authored research publications in the area of breast cancer metastasis and the role that stem-like cancer cells play in metastasis and therapy resistance.