Saadet Andrews

Research Synopsis

Dr. Andrews finished her medical school at Ege University. She completed her Pediatric Residency training at Istanbul University. She worked as a metabolic fellow at Vienna University. She finished biochemical genetics fellowship at University of British Columbia. She completed her PhD at Amsterdam Free University. She has been working as metabolic staff physician at The hospital for Sick Children since 2011. She is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at University of Toronto.

Her clinical research interests include creatine deficiency disorders, pyridoxine dependent epilepsy, inherited neurotransmitter disorders. She provides genetic diagnostics for epilepsy and pediatric movement disorders.

Dr. Andrews and her team characterized first knock-out aldh7a1 zebrafish to study neuropathogenesis of pyridoxine dependent epilepsy.