Seth Parker is an assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at the University of British Columbia and investigator at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute in Vancouver, BC (Canada). He received his B.S. in chemical and biological Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder (USA) and Ph.D. in bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego (USA), where he developed quantitative methods to study cancer metabolism under the supervision of Dr. Christian Metallo. Before coming to Vancouver, Seth was a postdoctoral fellow at New York University School of Medicine (USA) in the laboratory of Dr. Alec Kimmelman where he studied alanine transport in pancreatic cancer. His research team is interested in understanding how specific transporters permit acquisition of nutrients from the TME and how targeting these transporters may restrict tumor growth by limiting access to anabolic substrates.