Lekha Sleno received her PhD in chemistry from Dalhousie University in 2006, where her work involved small molecule mass spectrometry. She then completed two postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Geneva in Switzerland (in pharmaceutical analytical chemistry) and the University of Toronto (at the Donnelly CCBR in proteomics research). She is currently associate professor in the chemistry/biochemistry department at UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal). Her research interests include bioanalytical mass spectrometry applied to metabolomics and covalent binding of reactive drug metabolites..